The new President of the Court of Palermo takes office: “We will become a European example”

The new President of the Court of Palermo Antonio Balsamo, 56, took office during a ceremony. The ceremony was attended by the deputy prosecutor Salvo De Luca, the president of the Palermo court of appeal Matteo Frasca, the acting president of the court Alfredo Montalto. In addition to the last Presidents of the court Leonardo Guarnotta and Salvatore Di Vitale. “Antonio Balsamo will be an absolute certainty in carrying out his managerial functions – said De Luca – He is a person of great humanity and extraordinary vitality. A court like ours needs, as well as a jurist, an efficient organizer who knows how to value the collaboration with other offices “. “For me this is the place where the best energies of our country have been expressed – said Balsamo – In the last few years that I spent in Vienna at the United Nations representation, I realized that the face of Italy abroad is represented by people like Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino, Rocco Chinnici, or Antonino Saetta and Cesare Terranova who gave their lives for the state “. “I believe that this court has all the qualifications to become a European example, at an international level. Precisely in this historical phase in which all judicial systems are going through a phase of renewal and reorganization to try to build, after the dramatic crisis we have gone through , a new relationship of trust between institutions and the community. And this is precisely the greatest legacy of the missing magistrates who worked in this building “. Balsamo then wanted to remember all the victims of the mafia, such as Piersanti Mattarella, brother of the Head of State, and President of the Sicilian Region killed by the mafia in 1980. “Who wanted a Sicily with the right documents and we need justice with the papers in order, because there are so many opportunities “.