Overview

• A minute of silence was observed at 16:58 in Via Mariano d’Amelio to honor magistrate Paolo Borsellino and five agents killed by a mafia bomb in 1992.
• President Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Senate President Ignazio La Russa and Chamber President Lorenzo Fontana delivered speeches affirming that democracy overcame organised crime.
• Opposition leaders accused the government of invoking the anti-mafia fight only twice a year while otherwise pursuing measures they say undermine the magistracy.
• Critics have censured Chiara Colosimo’s right-wing parliamentary Antimafia Commission for seeking to reshape the massacre’s narrative and downplay suspicions of state collusion.
• Law experts cautioned that combined security and infrastructure decrees fast-tracking the Strait of Messina Bridge could create conditions ripe for mafia infiltration ahead of next week’s Senate vote on splitting magistrates’ career paths and reforming the CSM.