journey with Manu, who was four months old when his father was killed. "It could change everything, but the state has stopped '
Rosaria Schifani, the widow of an officer of the stock of Falcon: the judges? They fight like then
from our correspondent PALERMO - Fifteen years after the Capaci massacre, returned to Palermo Rosa. With its Manu who had just four months when he remained an orphan. The young widow, still remembered for that keen sore turned to the Mafia, "I forgive you, but kneel down," he scrutinized for five days, the city where her husband Vito Schifani torn died with two other colleagues to protect Giovanni Falcone. Here she is with Manu in the center, on vacation as a tourist, and between Politeama Teatro Massimo where no one recognizes it. A walk in the village where was born to Virgin Mary with the boy she has grown in Tuscany. And Manu has discovered only now with concern the narrow streets, low houses among waterfront cemetery and roll, adorned the corners, but also the disaster of the nearby Arenella, sweeping corners, the illegal buildings. With the eyes of a boy surprised, bewildered before the city found, "Mom why Palermo is so beautiful and so ugly?". Rosaria has rebuilt his life away from the Virgin Mary and by the Auditor, the neighborhood parents. But he wanted to accompany Manu in the city where he had taken away. He traveled along the roads of the Child, reviewed relatives, acquaintances cross. A journey, an ordeal. The first post is the family home, two olive trees, the sea front. A woman approaches, uncertain. "You're the daughter of Lina?". "I took affection. But it took just a waste, "says Rosaria on these troubled streets close to the cemetery. The houses of the living behind the graves. The houses on the coast are dominated by crosses and noble that slide on a slope. Death and life mix. "Men do not approach. Twisted like the lanes. They are afraid, meeting, stopping and talking, giving the impression of thinking like me. So many pretend not to see me best not to deal with it. It looks through me as if I were transparent. But it should be the other way? Should be me not wanting to deal with them. " Manu observes and asks, "They are ashamed of you, Mom?". Did you find the holiday home on the Internet, a few steps from Villa Igiea. "Beautiful," rejoices from the balcony of the sea and lace Tonnara Florio. But darkens immediately, while two boys splashing in motorcycle without helmets, "The beach, a dirt expanse. The sea washes dust and dirt. Where is the City? They did have the elections and a mayor. But there is a garbage man? A traffic policeman who is concerned with the standards to be met? The facade of Palermo finally appears viable in the city center. Something was done, it shows. But a mayor has to work on the beautiful, must deal with the bad. Excuse me, but I do not think Palermo is went on. " Rosaria would return to live here? "Manco died. In Palermo, I smell the mafia, the arrogance of the neighborhood, reduced to the political deal, illegal parking and traders wondering when I ask for your receipt. I would be there alone. To challenge those damned well that affect the breathing of our relatives. Prevails here twice. The coast looks beautiful and ugly buildings that encircle. The houses seem bad, but inside they are beautiful. To hide, to confuse, to avoid envy. Prevailing contrast. I look and it saddens me. Here does not change anything. " And 'the bitter feeling that accompanies it through the city, pointing to the Tree Manù Falcone, stalled in traffic around the Palace of Justice. From a distance he thought he could change something? "It could change everything. But the state has stopped. Prosecutors have begun to quarrel among themselves. Divided between friends and friends of Grasso Caselli. Again? Basta. As at the time of Falcone. Without ever recognizing the merits of those who work really. I'm glad to see so many studies that have done well traitors "within the investigation. But not enough. The state has stopped too many times. Because the state is afraid to look inside. " It 'an indictment of the investigation which evokes a season, "Slaughter Group disbanded when they were still working on the murder of secret Capaci and via D'Amelio. And 'as if the State wanted to stop that work. How many books have come out on those and other investigations. Judges become writers. But do not tell us all the way in which mysteries are bogged down. Starting from the safe empty Riina, the databank Falcone with memory erased, disappear from the bag made by machine Wallet with agenda inside. " Advice? "For Provenzano and company do not speak of chicory, flaws and quirks. Do not create the myth and not amplified. Just murderers we face. " Provenzano who is? "A gentleman who, with his mysticism, also mocks God." If you could talk to him? "A question I have. Why were they made the slaughter? This I know, seeing that justice comes in and stops only to you boss. But the Mafia is Mafia when associated with something that moves in other environments. No, maybe a different tone: if he can do this act of charity, Mr. Provenzano, please speak. So perhaps it is Utopia. I understand that might be afraid of being poisoned in prison, as happened before in Italy, but this people do charity without truth. Mr. Provenzano is free and die at least without the weight. We shall expire on the rent, Bernardo Provenzano. Are you passing through. Delivered from evil, deliver us with the truth. " The major worry? "The mystery of the murders in Palermo. Why not to Rome, where Falcone was an easy target? What was meant to signal Palermo? We must rediscover the complicity high, given everything that happened while you were electing the President of the Republic. " Who could convince Provenzano to speak? "His children. I noticed a difference with that of Riina. Perhaps marked by a diversity role of women. "My kids do not have to commit a crime", have said the mother. As the wife of Riina, Bagarella sister, I do not think he did the same. That's why today I am more interested in the Provenzano family. I would talk to his children: help your father to confess. You, son of Provost to teach in school, teach your dad to change. " Rosaria insists then on repentance and forgiveness? You can still repeat that "forgiveness, but kneel down"? "Meanwhile, those who wants to ask. And act. Kneeling is to speak, tell, really regret not only making a pact with the state. Because with those pacts have emerged only half-truths. It is not enough. All you need is the truth, even if raw. Do not stunt the hidden truth concealing the contents of a safe, clearing and getting rid of agendas. "Pessimism prevails? "I remember meeting with the widow of Pio La Torre, wary. He explained that we were not victims of "state secrets" but of "State crime". " What image of this takes away Manù Sicily? "I told him that, in addition to the boss with the cap, too many in this country live with the mafia becoming blind. I do not, I can not. Manu, who grew up next to an extraordinary man he calls Dad. A man of the State, as it was my Vito. The story here because even a neighbor scolded me, chilling: "Did you brought with the cop? Next time alone." Reflection of a mentality that does not care about civil society, petrified, immutable, despite every tragedy, every anniversary. " And Rosaria again.
Felice Cavallaro
Felice Cavallaro
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