A mural in Rome dedicated to slain
anti-mafia crusading judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo
Borsellino was defaced with painted slogans and the A for
anarchy symbol overnight Tuesday.
Police are viewing CCTV footage to see if they can catch the
culprits.
The mural was defaced with red paint in Piazza Bologna.
"This is an unacceptable act of vandalism and thuggery," said
Rome Culture Councillor Miguel Gotor, of the ruling centre-left
Democratic Party (PD).
Friends and colleagues Falcone and Borsellino were killed by
Cosa Nostra bombs in the spring-summer of 1992.
On July 19 this year, Italy marked the 30th anniversary of the
Via d'Amelio Cosa Nostra bombing in Palermo in which anti-mafia
magistrate Paolo Borsellino and five members of his security
detail were murdered.
Emanuela Loi, Agostino Catalano, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie
Cosina, and Claudio Traina were the names of the bodyguards.
The attack took place just two months after the Mafia
assassination of Borsellino's friend and colleague Giovanni
Falcone, as well as his wife Francesca Morvillo and police
officers Rocco Dicillo, Antonio Montinaro and Vito Schifani by a
huge bomb detonated under their cars on the Palermo-airport
highway.
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