Yesterday, September 8, was held in Palermo, a demonstration of solidarity with Lirio Abbate . Greater participation of journalists, politicians, representatives of institutions but also many ordinary people. We continue to support Lirio and others like him who do their duty without bending.
All journalists today feel Lirio
Andrea Cottone
A crowd of more than five hundred Lirio Abbate has accompanied people in a symbolic walk in the center of Palermo, to reclaim his city. Appointment, which was launched by the editors of the Journal of Sicily, where Abbate has grown, so many people have joined what must have been a meeting, a sit-in, has become an event. A silent procession composed of journalists, politicians, activists antimafia, but also by families, has come down to the Teatro Massimo, behind the banners of the city of Palermo and the native village of Abbate, Castelbuono. From the stairs of the theater, next to the journalist, spoke to the director of ANSA, Giampiero Gramaglia, underlining that "strikes the proper information to the mark" ... After him, the president of the Giornale di Sicilia, Frank Nicastro, who addressing the people present, in a symbolic meeting between journalists and the city, said that "citizens have realized that we live in a land border," recalls heritage of civil 8 journalists killed in the land of Sicily and that "it is not a self-referential discourse, we are here to defend everyone's right. "It appeals to civil society, the president of the Order of Journalists, Lorenzo del Boca," All journalists today feel Lirio, we hope that all the solidarity expressed by most shares does not end today. "
Trade unions also the journalists were present. Guido Dove, president of the Italian reporters, reminded all present that" in ten minutes all the reporters will go to work and be alone, "citing that the cord of people seen today do not forget the fundamental importance of the work of reporters. Alberto Following Cicero, regional secretary dell'Assostampa, and Enrico Bellavia, provincial secretary, who was able to collect a big and long applause: "It 's been hit one way of doing journalism, put together the facts, circumstances, documents, Sicily's white-collar. All these politicians say that they retain the memory of this day, because continue to search their rooms. " Peter Gomez, who with Lirio Abbate has written the book "The Accomplices" (prime suspect for the intimidation to the journalist), thanked the presence of all, "the parades are good, solidarity, but the parties Sicilians are contaminated. Await the Confindustria, the parties do what is trying to do and the espellino collude. " At the end Lirio Abbate emotional voice thanked the civil society, judges, to law enforcement.
On the stairs there was also the mayor of Palermo, the forzista Diego Cammarata, who witnessed the presence of the city.
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