Don Pino Puglisi was assassinated by the mafia on September 15, 1993. He was a priest from Palermo who had gone back to live in the city's most dangerous parish, Brancaccio. He was a formidable adversary of organised crime because he did something no-one had done before: he took children and teenagers off the street and offered them a place to play together and pursue their interests. Don Puglisi wasn't trying to make converts,just raise people who could live without fear, people who could act and speak “in daylight”.
