The Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi di Maio, wanted to remember today, on the day that marks the 30th anniversary of the murder of the anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, the Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, who died on May 10 after being attacked shot by unknown persons in Colombia.
Source: Efe
“Our thoughts are today with Marcelo Pecci, the anti-mafia prosecutor murdered on his honeymoon, who trained with us,” said Di Maio from the box of the Foro Italico in Palermo (Sicily, south) at the commemoration of the massacre in the that the magistrate, his wife and three members of his escort died.
The head of Italian diplomacy recalled that, thanks to Falcone’s work, “Italy is unanimously recognized as a leading country in the fight against organized crime” and that “the milestone of all this work from the point of view of diplomacy is the Palermo Convention.
“In 2020, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we built the Falcone and (Paolo) Borsellino program (another anti-mafia judge killed by the mafia) with 400 magistrates from Latin America and the Caribbean training with the Italian authorities,” explained the minister, who sent “ a thought for Marcelo Pecci, murdered on his honeymoon, who trained with us”.
Pecci, 45, considered a symbol of the fight against organized crime and drug trafficking in his country, was killed by two unknown individuals who shot him and his wife Claudia Aguilera while they were on their honeymoon on a tourist island off Cartagena. , In colombia.
Di Maio also referred to the international agreement on the global fight against the mafia organized by his Ministry, together with those of Justice and the Interior within the framework of the commemorations organized by the Falcone Foundation in Palermo.
The event, entitled “The global vocation of Giovanni Falcone’s thought: the international projection of the fight against the mafia”, will also review the main Italian initiatives in legal diplomacy and security, among which is the program “Falcone Borsellino ”.
This initiative, financed by Foreign Affairs and executed by the Ital Latin American Institute, deals with “cooperation and technical assistance in matters of justice, police and rule of law towards the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean,” according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Falcone unraveled the inner workings and power mechanisms of “Cosa Nostra” and broke the wall of silence that protected the bosses of the nameless Sicilian mafia thanks to his investigations and the trust of Tommaso Buscetta, the first great “pentito” (repentant ).
On May 23, 1992, 500 kilos of explosives blew up the highway between the airport and Palermo in Capaci, killing him; his wife, Judge Francesca Morvillo, and three men from his escort.
Less than two months later, the mafia eliminated his friend Paolo Borsellino, the other great anti-mafia judge, in another terrible attack.
