It seems fitting to remember those who have shown courage their ideas against the Mafia risking their lives. With this 2008 we reached the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Peppino Impastato, killed dead by the Mafia with a charge of dynamite placed under the body lying on railroad tracks a few miles from Cinisi the night between 8 and 9 May 1978. At the time the news went almost unnoticed because of the murder of Aldo Moro, who kept the media busy for weeks, did not give room for other news, and why the death of Peppino had considered suicide at the beginning.
Trentennale important because unlike the tenth and the twentieth anniversary of Peppino Impastato will go down in the face of official truth restored: after years and years, in 2002, Tano Badalamenti was sentenced to life in prison murder as a principal.
"Born in the land of vespers and oranges, Cinisi between Palermo and he talked to his radio,
eyes you could read the desire to change, the desire for justice that led him to fight, had
a cumbersome name and respected, certainly in that he recently honored
know where you are born but not how to die and is not an ideal will bring you pain. "
from the hundred steps of modena city ramblers
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