The Head of State Sergio Mattarella, is at the Palazzo Reale in Palermo, for the solemn session in the memory of his brother Piersanti, former president of the sicilian Region who was assassinated by the mafia 40 years ago. In the hall of the hall of Hercules there are the family members of Piersanti Mattarella and the highest institutional authorities, civil and military, including the president of the Assembly of the sicilian Gianfranco Miccichè and the governor, Nello Musumeci. All in walking distance to the Ars for the Anthem of Italy. At the end of a round of applause from part of the present. Next to the president of the Republic, the daughter and the two grandchildren, the children of Piersanti, Maria, secretary general of the Region, and Bernard, and was a member of the Ars. Then took the word of the chairman of the Meeting, Micciche’.