#Claudio Traina

[gardenofkore]

The Strage di Via D'Amelio (aka the Via D'Amelio Bombing) was a terrorist attack carried out by the Sicilian Mafia on July 19th 1992 to eliminate one of their worst enemies, Anti-Mafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino. His fellow colleague and close friend, Judge Giovanni Falcone, had been killed 57 days prior in another bombing attack.

The terrorists had taken advantage of the usual visits the judge used to pay to his mother, Maria Pia Lepanto, who at that time lived in an apartment in Via D'Amelio together with her daughter, future Anti-Mafia activist Rita Borsellino.

Alongside the Judge, in the attack died five members of his escort: Agents Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi (the first Italian female member of a police escort and the first to be killed on duty), Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina, and Claudio Traina. The only survivor of the escort in the bombing was Agent Antonino Vullo.

As he will recount: "I didn't hear any noise, nothing suspicious, nothing at all. Suddenly it was hell. I saw a huge blaze and I felt the armored car jolting. The shockwave threw me out of the seat. I don't know how I managed to get out of the car. Around me there were shreds of human flesh scattered everywhere".

In 2012 it was confirmed the existence of negotiations between Italian institutions and the Sicilian mafia. According to Judge Antonino Di Matteo, the Via D'Amelio Bombing was carried out "to protect the [State-Mafia] pact from the danger that Dott. Borsellino, having being made aware of it, would publically reveal and denounce its existence, thus irreparably compromising its desired outcome"

It's worth noting that, after the bombing, the so called agenda rossa (red notebook) owned by Borsellino, that the Judge always took with him and where he used to write down his notes regarding his investigations mysteriously disappeared and it hasn't been found ever since.

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Progetto Legalità: A Novi Ligure Mari Albanese Ricorda la Scorta di Paolo Borsellino. Un incontro di memoria e riflessione sulla strage di Via D’Amelio

Novi Ligure, 28 novembre 2024 – La Biblioteca Civica del Centro Comunale di Cultura "G. Capurro" ospiterà, alle ore 18:00, un appuntamento di grande rilevanza nell’ambito del Progetto Legalità

Novi Ligure, 28 novembre 2024 – La Biblioteca Civica del Centro Comunale di Cultura “G. Capurro” ospiterà, alle ore 18:00, un appuntamento di grande rilevanza nell’ambito del Progetto Legalità: la presentazione del libro “Cinque Vite” di Mari Albanese, dedicato agli agenti della scorta del Giudice Paolo Borsellino, vittime della strage di Via D’Amelio il 19 luglio 1992. Un Omaggio alle Vite…

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Seminars of “Herodotus Helpline”in April-June 2023

“Upcoming seminars

April-June 2023

18 April (NB: Tuesday): Maurizio Giangiulio (Trento)

After so many years. From Herodotus’ sources to oral tradition and social memory

26 April: Jan Haywood (Leicester)

Reading Herodotus

3 May: NO SEMINAR

10 May: Giusto Traina (Sorbonne)

Media and Armenia in Herodotus’ list of satrapies  

17 May: Reading session: 5.42-48 (the fall of Sybaris)

24 May: NO SEMINAR

31 May: Claudio Felisi (Sorbonne)

Where do the names of the Greek gods come from? For a (partly) new reading of Herodotus’ answer

7 June: Alexander Schütze (Munich), Andreas Schwab (Kiel) and others

Herodotean soundings: the Cambyses logos

14 June: NO SEMINAR

21 June: Paul Cartledge (Cambridge)

Commentating on Herodotus: the Cambridge Green and Yellows

28 June:Translating the Histories”

Source: https://herodotushelpline.org/seminar-schedule/

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"NOI SAPPIAMO CHI SIETE" - XXXII ANNIVERSARIO STRAGE DI VIA D'AMELIO

Paolo Borsellino, Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina e Claudio Traina di Redazione Si è svolta ieri a Palermo, grazie al Movimento delle Agende Rosse e Salvatore Borsellino, in collaborazione con la Casa di Paolo, tra via della Vetriera 57 e via D’Amelio, una importante iniziativa politica. L’evento “Noi sappiamo chi siete”, che intende mantenere viva la…

[lamilanomagazine]

Paolo Borsellino: 32 Anni dalla Strage di Via D’Amelio

Paolo Borsellino: 32 Anni dalla Strage di Via D’Amelio. Il 19 luglio 1992, un attentato mafioso in via D’Amelio a Palermo costò la vita al magistrato Paolo Borsellino e a cinque agenti della sua scorta: Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Claudio Traina, Vincenzo Li Muli e Eddie Walter Cosina.... Leggi articolo completo su La Milano Read the full article

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#NewsPA - Paolo Borsellino. Dichiarazione sindaco Lagalla

“A 32 anni dalla terribile strage di via D’Amelio, Palermo ricorda il sacrificio del giudice Paolo Borsellino e dei 5 agenti della scorta, Emanuela Loi, Agostino Catalano, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina e Claudio Traina….  ​Read More “A 32 anni dalla terribile strage di via D’Amelio, Palermo ricorda il sacrificio del giudice Paolo Borsellino e dei 5 agenti della scorta, Emanuela Loi,…

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31° anniversario della strage di via D’Amelio: il ricordo del sindaco Decaro

Per celebrare il 31° anniversario della strage di via D’Amelio, in cui morirono Paolo Borsellino e gli agenti della sua scorta Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina e Claudio Traina, questo pomeriggio alle 16.59, ora in cui esplose l’autobomba carica di tritolo in via D’Amelio, il sindaco di Bari Antonio Decaro ha deposto una corona di fuori sulla facciata esterna…

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I morti di via D’Amelio credevano in un’Italia migliore: ora i legami tra mafia e politica non indignano più

(Gian Carlo Caselli – ilfattoquotidiano.it) – Il 19 luglio ricorre l’anniversario della morte di Paolo Borsellino e dei poliziotti che erano con lui in via D’Amelio: Agostino Catalano, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina, Claudio Traina ed Emanuela Loi, una delle primissime donne assegnate a un servizio di scorta. Il nostro paese non attraversa un buon momento e in alcune componenti anche…

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Accadde Oggi: 19 Luglio 1992

Strage di Via d’Amelio: muoiono il giudice Paolo Borsellino e gli agenti di scorta Agostino Catalano, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina e Claudio Traina.

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[occhietti]

Il 19 luglio 1992 un’autobomba venne fatta esplodere in via Mariano D’Amelio a Palermo alle ore 16.58 e venti secondi causando la morte del Magistrato PAOLO BORSELLINO e dei cinque Agenti della Polizia di Stato: Emanuela Loi, Claudio Traina, Vincenzo Li Muli, Eddie Walter Cosina ed Agostino Catalano...

Paolo Borsellino per 57 giorni, da dopo l’omicidio Falcone, era solito appuntare in una agenda rossa riflessioni e contenuti dei suoi colloqui investigativi, soprattutto negli ultimi mesi che precedettero la strage. Borsellino ripose l’agenda nella sua borsa di cuoio poco prima di recarsi dalla madre in via D’Amelio il 19 luglio 1992, come testimoniato dai figli e dalla moglie del Magistrato. Da quel momento dell’agenda si sono perse le tracce: nella borsa del Magistrato trovata intatta dopo l’esplosione sono stati rinvenuti alcuni oggetti personali ma non l’agenda. In quel diario sono contenuti appunti sugli incontri ed i colloqui che Borsellino ebbe con collaboratori di giustizia e con rappresentanti delle Istituzioni. Si tratta di elementi determinanti per mettere a fuoco le complicità di pezzi dello Stato con Cosa Nostra...

Chi incontrava? Chi intralciava il suo lavoro in Procura? Quali verità andava scoprendo? Lasciato solo negli ultimi giorni della sua vita, disse:

"Ho capito tutto… mi uccideranno, ma non sarà una vendetta della mafia… Forse saranno mafiosi quelli che materialmente mi uccideranno, ma quelli che avranno voluto la mia morte saranno altri".

- dall'introduzione al libro "L’agenda rossa di Paolo Borsellino"

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Mother Nature by Claudio Traina, an artist at Sixty Ink Tattoo in London, England. https://tattoo-ideas.com/tree-birds/

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Mother Nature by Claudio Traina, an artist at Sixty Ink Tattoo in London, England. https://tattoo-ideas.com/tree-birds/

[fromthefishbowl]

Hi I read your post about why mafia au's are bad and you make some good points! However, you can't compare writing Joe as a terrorist and nicky as a mobster as they aren't even remotely in the same realm. There is a real world problem where people in western cultures genuinely perceive MENA people as threats or terrorists and they are discriminated against because of it. However, no one actively discriminates against Italians because they think they're possible mobsters. Just letting you know :)

I feel like you don’t consider it to be a “real-world problem” because it��s not your problem and you specifically have never lived in a country that has been going through it for centuries and it doesn’t hit you specifically.

First of all, “mobster” is the American term. If you want to write Nicky as a mafioso, don’t use that word.

Second, it really shouldn’t be hard to comprehend the idea that, if multiple Italians have been telling you to please, don’t write Nicky as a mafioso because it’s a hurtful stereotype and mafiose organizations aren’t as cool and sexy as how you want them to be, you should think about your opinion regarding it a few times over.

Third, as I said, it’s fiction and if you want to write him as a mafia boss, you can, it’s just a shitty ass move that is completely tone-deaf to the problems a nation is suffering and shows a great display of ignorance from your part, as well as unwillingness to inform yourself and a certain nit-picking attitude when it comes to understanding what information Italian people in the fandom are providing regarding the issues our, and therefore Nicky’s, country goes through.

Also... my post was not about how much discrimination Italians face because of the mafia? I am not smart nor cultured enough to discuss such issues regarding my own nationality, and I am even less prepared to discuss about what MENA people go through (especially because it wouldn’t come from first hand experience and it would be extremely hypocritical, as well as just plain rude, of me to talk over actual MENA folks who discuss these topics). The point of my post is: don’t write Nicky as a mafioso because it’s a stereotype on the same level as writing Joe as a terrorist, a xenophobic stereotype based on what the media have been feeding us for decades.

Mafiosi are terrorists, regardless of how Americans have been polishing their image through fancy movies, and regardless of the fact that you like it or not. Matteo Massima Denaro, a Cosa Nostra boss, is one of the most wanted men in the world. ISIS terrorists don’t attack Italy simply because mafia organizations let them stay on our territories as long as they don’t attack them, as it would increase police controls.

If you want to go on and write your Mafia AU with Nicky being a boss who wears Armani suits, then go on, there’s literally nothing I can do to stop you, but know that it’s a show of extreme ignorance and unwillingness to learn from Italian people while, in the same breath, pretending to fawn over us, our culture, our actors, and even the characters whose roots can be found in our country.

To drag the point home hopefully once and for all, since that “real-world problem” bothered me to no end, under the cut I decided to add some explanations, pictures, and the names of the people that Cosa Nostra murdered in two terroristic attacks in 1992.

I can provide more if you ask for them.

TW for: remaining of explosions, and non-in-depth re-telling of terroristic acts.

Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were two magistrates who, in the Eighties and Nineties, were extremely active in the fight against Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia.

In order to kill Falcone, they placed a 400kg bomb on the Autostrada A4, murdering Falcone, his wife, Francesca Morvillo, and three other men (Antonio Montinaro, Vito Schifani, and Rocco Dicillo). It was May 23rd 1992, and this is now known as the “Strage di Capaci”, the carnage of Capaci.

The mangled car in which Falcone and his wife died is now a monument.

To kill Borsellino, they bottled a car with TNT and made it explode while the judge was driving by to visit his sister. It killed Borsellino and five other people (Agostino Catalano, Emanuele Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina, and Claudio Traina). It was July 19th 1992, and this is now known as the “Strage di Via d’Amelio”, the carnage of Via d’Amelio.

Our country is still actively mourning them and their work.

“You didn’t kill them: their ideas are now walking with our legs.”

So... is this a “real-world problem” enough, now?

[plurilinguismo]

19 Luglio 1992: Strage di Via D’Amelio

On 19 July 1992, Italian anti-mafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D'Amelio, near his mother's house in Palermo, less than two months after the death of his good friend, the anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone. The bomb attack also claimed the lives of five police officers: Agostino Catalano, Walter Cosina, Emanuela Loi (the first Italian policewoman to be killed in the line of duty), Vincenzo Li Muli and Claudio Traina.