Meloni to chair public order panel in Palermo

Premier Giorgia Meloni said Monday

she will chair a public order panel in Palermo later in the day

when she visits the Sicilian capital for a museum ceremony

unveiling the limousine Giovanni Falcone was travelling in when

he was killed by a Mafia bomb in 1992.

"Today (I will be) in Palermo, also to chair the Committee for

Public Order and Security," Meloni said on social media.

She is expected in the Sicilian capital this afternoon, at the

"Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino" Museum of the Present,

for the unveiling ceremony of the Fiat Croma in which Falcone

and his wife Francesca Morvillo were traveling on May 23, 1992,

when they were blown up along with their police escort.

"Just a few days before the 34th anniversary of the Via D'Amelio

massacre (in which Falcone's friend and colleague Paolo

Borsellino was blown up)," she added, "the State's message is

one: no retreat against organized crime. Thanks to the judiciary

and law enforcement for stopping the Kalashnikov gang. Legality

is the way forward."

The gang had been terrorising Palermo in recent months.

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