Salvatore Borsellino: “Against the megaphones of rhetoric on 19 July in via D’Amelio the ‘Sound of silence'”

“Dear friends, once again this year I ask you to participate in the ‘Escort for Memory’ garrison under the tree that my mother wanted to plant, as a symbol of peace and hope, in the hole dug by the explosion”. Thus Salvatore Borsellino, brother of Judge Paolo and founder of the Red Agenda Movement, in these days in Palermo to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the attack in via D’Amelio. “That olive tree has its roots in the land bathed in the blood of Paolo and Agostino Catalano, Claudio Traina, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli and Eddie Cosina, members of the Scorta del Quarto Savona 21 that that day, together with Antonino Vullo, ‘condemned’ to survive, had been commanded for their appointment with death. In 2021 we made the garrison next to the tree from May 1st to the end of July and then we continued on the 19th of each month; this year there I asked to do it from July 1st to July 19th, the day of the massacre “. “For us – continues Borsellino with Adnkronos – memory is not reduced to a single date, perhaps by superimposing anniversaries of different massacres to wash one’s conscience more quickly. For memory, truth and justice we fight 365 days at year and this time, in the thirtieth anniversary of the massacres, since the megaphones of rhetoric will be unleashed and the voices of those who – for some time – have lost the right to speak, are repeated – by the Superior Council of the Judiciary – the same errors perpetrated at the time with Giovanni Falcone, we decided to celebrate July 19 in the name of silence “. (continues) ‘For memory, truth and justice we fight 365 a year, not one’ “This year there will be neither stages nor debates – assures the founder of the Agende Rosse – our day of remembrance will be entitled ‘ The Sound of Silence. ‘And since nothing should be able to break this silence, if not the music, next week there will be only a platform in via D’Amelio on which a great cellist, Luca Franzetti, whom I have chosen not only for his art but also for his civic commitment – he performs in fact in refugee camps in Palestine, in prisons and favelas – he will play and comment on the six suites for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach “.” In particular – concludes the engineer Borsellino – the number 2, inspired by anger and number 3, inspired by love, the two feelings that have lived together in my soul in these thirty years and which, thanks to the many young people I meet in schools, continue to make my hope live “. And there will also be a silent procession that will bring sheets to via D’Amelio, adorned with drawings and symbols in memory of all the important themes of the last ten years, starting with misdirections. “They have been prepared by the various territorial groups of the Red Agendas and at the end of the event they will be hung on the balconies of the buildings, as was done in ’92, as a sign of protest for the blood shed”. The music against the roar of the massacre, the silence against the usual empty words. (by Rossella Guadagnini)