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Del Corno: "A choice that keeps the memory of the massacres high through the memory of two women who fell in the State's fight against organized crime"

Milan, July 19 2019 – A small square named after Francesca Morvillo and Emanuela Loi in the Muggiano district.

On the anniversary of the killing of judge Paolo Borsellino with his escort, the municipal council decided to name a small square after the women who lost their lives in the massacres of Capaci and via D'Amelio: Francesca Morvillo, wife of judge Giovanni Falcone, the only female magistrate killed in Italy, and Emanuela Loi, the first female State Police agent killed on duty.

The choice to name a city space after them (the new square is between via Antonio Mosca - street number 180 - and via Edgardo Moltoni and Arturo Carlo Jemolo) is the result of an agreement between Municipality 7 and the Department of Culture, who shared the desire to keep alive the memory of all the victims of those massacres, not only of judges Falcone and Borsellino (to whom Milan has already dedicated a garden) but also of the people who were with them.

“The massacres of Capaci and Via D'Amelio – declares the Councilor for Culture Filippo Del Corno – belong to our most recent history, the images transmitted in those days are part of our memories. But keeping the memory of the victims alive is something more, it is a task that also falls to the institutions and concerns the transmission of the values ​​of legality and justice and the call for civil commitment. I am particularly pleased to have gathered the impulse of the Muggiano neighborhood committee and to have shared with Municipality 7 a choice that confirms the commitment of this Administration to spread the culture of legality and respect for gender equality in the naming of spaces public of the city".

Francesca Laura Morvillo was born in Palermo on 14 December 1945. After an excellent university course, she decided to enter the judiciary. Over the course of your career you have held the roles of judge of the court of Agrigento, deputy public prosecutor at the Juvenile Court of Palermo, counselor of the Court of Appeal of Palermo and member of the Commission for the competition for access to the judiciary. She died on May 23, 1992 next to her husband, Giovanni Falcone, and the escort in the Capaci massacre.

Emanuela Loi was born in Sestu in October 1967. After obtaining her master's degree, she joined the State Police in 1989 where she was promoted with full marks and is also a sharpshooter. She is sent to Palermo and assigned to the police station and the supervision of prisoners in semi-freedom. After the Capaci massacre, in June 1992 she became an escort agent for magistrate Paolo Borsellino. On 19 July 1992, the day of the massacre in Via D'Amelio in Palermo, her colleagues, Walter Eddie Cosina, Agostino Catalano, Claudio Traina and Vincenzo Li Muli, lost their lives together with Paolo Borsellino.