Murder of Piersanti Mattarella, the president of the Palermo court: A parliamentary commission of inquiry is needed

A commission of inquiry to investigate the season of mafia terrorism: a chain of murders that have often remained unsolved, starting with that of Piersanti Mattarella, president of the Sicily Region and brother of the current head of state.! This is a phase in the 1970s and lasted until 1993, a period in which Palermo was the only city in the Western world in which, in the short space of a few years, the most representative leaders of state power were assassinated of the Palermo court, interviewed by the Adnkronos. agency. On the eve of the 43rd anniversary of the Mattarella murder, killed on 6 January 1980 under his home, Balsamo calls for the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry to shed light on ! to be understood and explored, which cannot be reconstructed only with judicial activity. The fact of also focusing on the commitment of other institutions, in addition to the judicial ones, is also a form of respect and common commitment for this with great courage the families of the victims â says Balsamo in an interview with Adnkronos â For them, I believe it is just as important as the celebration of the. trials. Because there are a series of limits in the criminal trial, which however do not prevent tà Mafia Murder of Piersanti Mattarella, the president of the court of Palermo: !A parliamentary commission of inquiry is needed? Murder of Piersanti Mattarella, the president of the court of Palermo: !A parliamentary commission of inquiry is needed? The statements of judge Antonio judge Antonio Balsamo on the eve of the 43rd anniversary of the murder of the then president of the Sicily Region, brother of the current head of state: We need to shed light on all those aspects that are still obscure about our recent history A commission of inquiry to investigate the season of season of mafia terrorism: a chain of murders often left unsolved, starting with that of Piersanti Mattarella, president of the Sicily Region and brother of the current head of state.! This is a historical phase that begins in the 1970s n the period in which Palermo was the only city in the Western world in which, in the short space of a few years, the most representative leaders of state power and the political system were assassinated?, says Antonio Balsamo, president of the court of enzia Adnkronos. On the eve of the 43rd anniversary of the Mattarella murder, killed on 6 January 1980 under his home, Balsamo calls for the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry that sheds light on many points still to be understood and explored, be rebuilt only with judicial activity. The fact of also focusing on the commitment of other institutions, in addition to the judicial ones, is also a form of respect and common commitment for this need for truth, which they express with great courage to allâAdnkronos â For them, I believe it is just as important as the celebration of the. trials. Why are there a series of limits in the criminal trial, which however do not prevent the ascertainment of a shared historical truth? po Calò, Francesco Madonia and Antonino Geraci. The investigation, however, was unable to identify either the hitmen or the alleged external instigators. The alleged killers, i.e. the black terrorists Giuseppe Valerio Fioravanti and Gilberto Cavallini, exponents

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Murder of Piersanti Mattarella, the president of the Palermo court: A parliamentary commission of inquiry is needed