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ROME http://www.cheapmlbastrosshop.com/Roy-Oswalt/ , July 19 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-five years after he was killed by mobsters, top anti-mafia judge Paolo Borsellino was commemorated with various initiatives across Italy on Wednesday.


Italian President Sergio Mattarella led a special ceremony to honor the slain magistrate at the High Council of the Judiciary (CSM) here, appealing for a "a final word of justice" in the long path to identity and condemn masterminds and authors of his killing.


"Borsellino fought the mafia with resolution, convinced as he was that the mafia is not an ineluctable evil, but a criminal phenomenon that can be defeated," Mattarella told the plenary of CSM.


"His tragic death http://www.cheapmlbastrosshop.com/Mike-Scott/ , along with that of those escorting him, still waits for a final word of justice."


The president also stressed that "too many uncertainties and mistakes have accompanied the search for truth on this slaughter, and still many questions about those responsible for his heinous killing are open."


Paolo Borsellino was killed on July 19, 1992, by a car bombing in Palermo, along with five police officers of his escort.


His murder came 57 days after the killing of fellow top anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone http://www.cheapmlbastrosshop.com/Jose-Cruz/ , which was perpetrated with a similar mafia bomb on a motorway in Sicily.


Borsellino and Falcone had developed new methods in investigating the mafia since the early 1980s, reaching unprecedented results against what was the most powerful crime syndicate at the time: the Sicilian mob, or 'Cosa Nostra'.


Their killing represented the most brutal attack by the Sicilian mafia against Italy's state and judiciary, and their deaths marked one of the darkest moments in the country's recent history.