LEA GAROFALO. In 2020, an associative reality in Lecco promoted an innovative action: symbolically changing the names of three city streets, naming them after great women of Italian history. Through a poll, citizens chose three women: among them, LEA GAROFALO. Lea was born in 1974 in Petilia Policastro (Crotone) where she grew up in a “Ndrangheta’s” family. She soon developed a spontaneous and genuine opposition to crime, trafficking and the logic that also belonged to her family, and so in 2002 she testified about the internal feuds between her family and that of her former partner Carlo Cosco. Initially subjected to protection, she was then excluded from the programme and, once readmitted, continued to be considered a collaborator of justice and not a witness; a condition that Lea did not accept. Threatened several times, in 2009 she was killed by her former partner and her body was set on fire.