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Milan, November 25 2019 – In the Muggiano district, a small square named after 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 ceremony took place today in the presence of the Councilor for Culture Filippo Del Corno and the Councilor for Participation, Active Citizenship and Open Data Lorenzo Lipparini, as well as the president of Municipality 7, Marco Bestetti.

The choice to name a city space after the two women 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.

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.