Speeches

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Mr President, also for having wanted this sitting. It is an honour for me to remember in this Chamber Judge Paolo Borsellino and the agents of his escort Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and Claudio Traina, people heroically engaged in the fight for legality, killed by the mafia in my city, Palermo, on 19 July 1992. After many years we join the pain of the families of the victims, who still today ask to know the truth about the massacre. Among the family members I would like to mention Rita Borsellino, sister of the judge, who was a Member of this Parliament in the seventh legislature and who, after the massacre in Via D'Amelio, spent her life to spread the values of legality and justice, especially among young people. I am sure that in this parliamentary term, under your leadership, President, the European Parliament will work with the same commitment to the same values.