In San Marino, the display case containing the Quarto Savona Fifteen, Giovanni Falcone’s spare car
“Men pass, ideas remain”.
It is one of the famous phrases of the judge Giovanni Falcone that the May 23, 1992on theA29 motorway near Capacilost his life in a massacre attack together with the wife Francesca Morvillo and announcement some men of his escort.
He was a Falcone symbol man who had chosen to look the mafia straight in the eye and fight it. He spent his entire life in the service of the state dedicating himself to the noble idea of legality which he defended with strength and courage.
30 years after the Capaci massacre, Tina Montinaro, representative of the Quarto Savona Fifteen Association and widow of the agent Antonio Montinaro, Giovanni Falcone’s foremantour Italy promoting the awareness project against the mafias “1922-2022 Thirty years from the mafia attacks of Capaci and via D’Amelio”through which it wants to enhance and spread the culture of legality, bringing students closer to active citizenship and to the rules at the basis of civil society, the values of respect for life, institutions and the law.
Her didactic and emotional journey between legality and values Tina Montinaro does it with what has become an Italian national monument, the case containing the Quarto Savona Fifteen, the spare car of Giovanni Falcone in which they travelled Antonio Montinaro, Rocco Dicillo and Vito Schifani.
The case, which is leaving the territory of the Italian Republic for the first time, was discovered this morning in the Republic of San Marino in the presence of Captains Regent, Maria Luisa Berti And Manuel Ciavattaof the state secretaries for education and culture, Andrea Belluzzi, for justice, Massimo Andrea Ugolini, for the territory, Stefano Canti, and for health, Roberto Ciavattaof the commander of the Gendarmerie Corps, Colonel Maurice Faroneand high school students.
The morning continued with a conference at the Titano Theater during which not only Tina Montinaro, but also the general B. Renzo Nisi, head of the International Relations Department of the Italian Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorateand of Pasquale Valentini, president of the council commission on the phenomenon of infiltration of organized crime in San Marino.
“The school is doing a wonderful job on the issue of building legality. We wanted to bring this monument under our high school today because it invites us to reflect on how much the mafia and its violence still exist and are close to us – said the Secretary of State for Education, Belluzzi, whose secretariat sponsored today’s initiative together with his colleagues in Justice and the Territory -. The fight against the mafia has experienced very dark moments, like the one witnessed by this monument, the path to fight it is long and hard. Through the school we will continue to work to make a contribution to this battle”.