"No one is ever gone as long as someone still has memories of them."- Ed Worthington
A witness in a major Mafia investigation in Sicily, headed by magistrate Paolo Borsellino, breaking the Omertà - code of silence. The evidence given by Atria, together with other testimony, led to the arrest of various Mafiosi and to the launch of an enquiry into the politician Vincenzo Culicchia, who had been mayor of Partanna for thirty years. On July 19, 1992, a Mafia bomb killed Borsellino! Italy was in shock. She wrote in her diary: "You have died for what you believed in, but without you, I too am dead." A week later Atria locked herself into the apartment and wrote a note, which said: "I am devastated by the killing of Judge Borsellino and she ended her life soon thereafter!(bio. information taken from Wikipedia)
A witness in a major Mafia investigation in Sicily, headed by magistrate Paolo Borsellino, breaking the Omertà - code of silence. The evidence given by Atria, together with other testimony, led to the arrest of various Mafiosi and to the launch of an enquiry into the politician Vincenzo Culicchia, who had been mayor of Partanna for thirty years. On July 19, 1992, a Mafia bomb killed Borsellino! Italy was in shock. She wrote in her diary: "You have died for what you believed in, but without you, I too am dead." A week later Atria locked herself into the apartment and wrote a note, which said: "I am devastated by the killing of Judge Borsellino and she ended her life soon thereafter!(bio. information taken from Wikipedia)
"No one is ever gone as long as someone still has memories of them."- Ed Worthington
A witness in a major Mafia investigation in Sicily, headed by magistrate Paolo Borsellino, breaking the Omertà - code of silence. The evidence given by Atria, together with other testimony, led to the arrest of various Mafiosi and to the launch of an enquiry into the politician Vincenzo Culicchia, who had been mayor of Partanna for thirty years. On July 19, 1992, a Mafia bomb killed Borsellino! Italy was in shock. She wrote in her diary: "You have died for what you believed in, but without you, I too am dead." A week later Atria locked herself into the apartment and wrote a note, which said: "I am devastated by the killing of Judge Borsellino and she ended her life soon thereafter!(bio. information taken from Wikipedia)
A witness in a major Mafia investigation in Sicily, headed by magistrate Paolo Borsellino, breaking the Omertà - code of silence. The evidence given by Atria, together with other testimony, led to the arrest of various Mafiosi and to the launch of an enquiry into the politician Vincenzo Culicchia, who had been mayor of Partanna for thirty years. On July 19, 1992, a Mafia bomb killed Borsellino! Italy was in shock. She wrote in her diary: "You have died for what you believed in, but without you, I too am dead." A week later Atria locked herself into the apartment and wrote a note, which said: "I am devastated by the killing of Judge Borsellino and she ended her life soon thereafter!(bio. information taken from Wikipedia)
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