Palermo Remembers Walter Eddie Cosina

Walter Eddie Cosina: The Silent Hero Victim of the Mafia in Palermo Walter Eddie Cosina, an Italian police officer, was born in Norwood, Australia, on July 25, 1961, killed in Palermo. His family, originally from Trieste, emigrated to Australia after the war, and then returned to Italy, to Muggia, in the 1970s. Walter's life was marked by an early bereavement: at just 21 years old he lost his father, an event that led him to give up the course t…