Maria Falcone: “It’s like it was yesterday. Wasn’t it just the mafia? I cannot believe that the State plotted to kill Giovanni”

"It wasn't just the mafia that wanted Giovanni dead, there were converging interests. But I can't think that there are state powers behind the Capaci massacre", says the sister of the anti-mafia magistrate killed on 23 May 1992 in Capaci

ROME – “32 years have passed since that day, but it’s as if it were yesterday. Today, however, we have one more reason to be satisfied because this Museum represents the crowning of the whole activity carried out by the Foundation in these thirty years will remain here, perennially, as a lesson in legality”. These are the words pronounced by Maria Falcone, president of the Falcone Foundation and sister of the magistrate killed by the mafia in the Capaci massacre together with his wife Francesca Morvillo and the escort agents: Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo and Antonio Montinaro, arriving at Palazzo Jung where today celebrations of the 32nd anniversary of the massacre are planned.

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“I want to tell the kids thatthe mafia is still a big problem, even if it doesn’t killit continues to do business“, he added. And on the truths hidden behind Capaci’s TNT, Maria Falcone added: “We certainly know that the mafia wanted him dead, because the Maxi trial had been a great defeat for the bosses. Then, alongside the mafia there are converging interests that unfortunately we still don’t know about. I would like to say that there is nothing, that there are no State powers behind that massacre because I love the Italian State and I cannot think that some in the institutions have plotted against John”.