It will be a special day, that of Tuesday 24 April at the Agenzia Italia. From 9 we will talk about journalism and the Mafia. Journalists who do their jobs fight the mafia, offering magistrates and citizens an extraordinary service for the defense of legality.
A single episode of #vivalitalia, live streaming on the Agi website and on Facebook, conducted by Riccardo Luna, director of Agi, together with Paolo Borrometi, journalist of the agency and director of the La Spia website, which in recent weeks has been center of the judicial chronicles for some wiretaps between Sicilian bosses who were talking about killing him.
It is not the first time it happens. Paolo Borrometi is a journalist who for years has been living in the trenches and under guard for denouncing the traffic and infiltration of some mafia families in Catania and the provinces of Ragusa and Siracusa. He suffered an attack in the 2014. Today he is one of the most Italian journalists in the Sicilian mafia's sights.
With Riccardo Luna and Paolo Borrometi there will be Federica Angeli (la Repubblica) and don Luigi Ciotti (Libera). But there will also be Giuseppe Giulietti, president of the National Press Federation, and many political leaders who in these days have expressed their solidarity with Paolo Borrometi for the threats suffered by the Giuliano di Pachino clan.
The broadcast is titled "#vivalitalia #abbassolamafia '" and will also be an opportunity to return to the historic sentence of the Court of Assizes of Palermo that Friday 20 sentenced after 5 years of trial some bosses and several representatives of the institutions for the " state-mafia negotiation "after the massacres and attacks in the early nineties.
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