On the deposition of laurel wreaths to the place of the murder has begun, in Palermo, the day in memory of Piersanti Mattarella, was killed on January 6, 1980. At the ceremony, in via Libertà, where there were also several members of the family of Mattarella, was attended by, among others, the minister for the South, Giuseppe Provenzano, the sicilian governor Nello Musumeci, and the mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando. It is the first time that a minister participates in the commemoration.
“The mafia that wanted to kill Piersanti Mattarella, has not won, yet he has not even lost because of that deep reform of the institutions that Mattarella wanted to achieve in Sicily, and where there is need all over the Country, it is a job that still needs to be brought to completion, the reasons for which he was killed are still current”. As the minister for the Mezzogiorno, Giuseppe Provenzano, on the sidelines of the commemoration.
