New threats, disturbing and heavy, to the prosecutor for the minors of Palermo, Claudia Caramannaa symbol of justice that tries to break the hereditary link between children and mafia fathers. A justice that does not just punish, but that proposes alternatives, builds paths, tends to hand to those who were born and raised inside criminal families. A justice that is frightening to Cosa Nostraso as to generate increasingly explicit intimidation.
The last disturbing episode was discovered in a judicial file: a newspaper cutout with the photo of Giovanni Falcone and, next to the surname of the magistrate, “Caramanna”marked by one Large Cross and three little ones. The file in question concerns the request for forfeiture of the parental responsibility of a bossa measure that is part of the protocol “Free to choose“, Designed to offer the children of the mafia families the concrete possibility of a different future.
It’s not the first time. Already in August, in another file, threatening words had appeared directly to the magistrate: “You have to stop taking care of the children of others”. A clear mafia warning, which aims to stop a judicial and social activity that undermines one of the pillars of mafia power at the root: family continuity, the transmission of the criminal “fate” from father to son.
Following the new episodes, the Provincial Committee for order and security has decided to strengthen protection measures towards the prosecutor, for some time under escort. An important institutional signal, but also a signal that confirms how much the work of Caramanna is affecting the mafia structure in the heart.
The magistrate, tireless, continues to meet the wives of the over 180 bosses arrested in the recent Maxi anti -mafia blitz, to explain to them that it exists An alternative road to children: that of education, freedom, redemption. A difficult road, of course, but possible, if supported by courageous institutions and a social protection network that accompanies the detachment from the criminal context.
Next to her immediately sided the Pio La Torre Study Centerthrough the words of President Emilio Miceli: «We express the most convinced solidarity and closeness to the prosecutor. The threats received are the most tangible sign of the work he is carrying out to recover groups of juvenile discomfort from citizenship, subtracting them from the influence of mafia organizations “.
Miceli underlines how the city should grate for the work of the magistrate, calling it a real Battle of civilization. «The threats, in their brutal language, mean that the path taken is the right one and must be covered to the end. The signal that comes to the city is clear: the jurisdictional and educational function is and remains fundamental to recover many young people from the grip of the mafia and the marginalization “.
For the president of the center, it is necessary that what is happening pushes everyone – institutions, schools, community – to one collective reflection It is a concrete commitment: “Today more than ever there is a need for a civil pact for the good of Palermo and its young people”.
The message is clear: who struggles for the legality and for the future of the boys it must not be left alone. And if the mafia tries to intimidate with crosses and newspaper, the state and civil society must respond with protection, closeness, and above all sharing of the same educational vision: freeing children from mafia fate is possible. It is necessary.
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