Overview
- MuST23 and Addiopizzo Travel launched an online archive at maxiprocessoai.must23.it with 84 digitized documents totaling over 16,000 pages, enabled for advanced AI search.
- A virtual‑reality reconstruction of Palermo’s Aula Bunker was unveiled, allowing the public to navigate the courtroom that hosted the first hearing on 10 February 1986.
- The release was marked by the event “Dentro il Maxiprocesso” in the Ucciardone bunker courtroom with hundreds of students, magistrates, law‑enforcement officials and lawyers in attendance.
- TGR Sicilia and RAI premiered the documentary “A futura memoria: i 40 anni del Maxiprocesso,” which will become part of the museum’s permanent exhibition.
- The commemoration underscores the trial’s breakthrough in prosecuting Cosa Nostra as an organization, later upheld by the Court of Cassation in 1992, with coverage noting Palermo’s shift away from overt violence even as mafia economic power endures.