President Sergio Mattarella and Premier Giorgia Meloni on Friday marked the 33rd anniversary of the murder of anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three of his bodyguards by Cosa Nostra in the 1992 Capaci bomb attack.
Falcone's friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino was killed two months later by another huge Cosa Nostra bomb.
"'The Mafia, like every human phenomenon, had a beginning and it will also have an end'," Mattarella said, quoting Falcone.
"The Mafia has suffered some heavy blows, but the work of eradication must be continued, pouncing on its transformations, its new links with economic and financial activities and the grey areas that form where civic commitment gives way to indifference".
The head of State stressed the importance of "always keeping vigilance high, involving the new generations in the responsibility of building a future free from criminal constraints".
