When Mafia is afraid of theater

GiulioCavalliMafia A few days ago, the italian observatory on threatened reporters has appealed to media not to forget them, especially those who have been threatened by the Northern Mafia. Organized crime is not only a problem of Southern Italy. And it does not only involve people of the South. Few times the newspapers talk about Giulio Cavalli. Some newspapers have taken to heart his story. Many others do not.

Italian newspapers have to talk about other problems: politics seems to give us every day new ideas (which unfortunately have nothing to do with real politics). And when there's no politics, one can speak of economy, even if only giving the good news.
Giulio Cavalli is from Milan, born in 1977, and if you take a look at him, you might think that he has nothing to do with the Mafia and the Camorra. But he was threatened by the Mafia (more than a year and a half ago) for having made fun of Bernardo Provenzano in some theatre performances in Sicily and Lombardy.
So after the Camorra, which threatens a writer (Roberto Saviano), now in Italy we have the Mafia which threatens an actor/director. Moreover from the North, so we are in total par conditio, for once.

But his town has not responded in a special way about this news, and around him grew silence. It's harsh that a situation like this instead of producing solidarity, support, protection of a collective voice and courageous freedom, produces the isolation of the victim of an injustice. This silence, this lack of attention may be only because, unfortunately, many Italians, (but especially many journalists, including the ones from the North) believe that in this story if there is one who has done wrong, this is Giulio Cavalli, who, according to this way of thinking and a formula widely used, is the one "who asked for it". Giulio Cavalli, then, asked for it, as Roberto Saviano, as Lirio Abbate, as Rosaria Capacchione, unlike those who speak about something else or pretend that the Mafia does not exist. Because the biggest problem today, in journalism, it's self-censorship.
The one to which the actor-director does not want to surrender. He is under escort since his show Do ut Des has angered some organized crime bosses (who have sent him death threats), and in his last show, presented in Milan, he talked about the crime emergency in Milan. "A hundred steps from the Cathedral" is the name of the recital, the hundred steps reminiscent of Peppino Impastato, but they tell of Milan (now close to Expo 2015) under the control of the criminal underworld. Already the anti-Mafia general prosecutor, Vincenzo Macri, stated, in 2008, that "Milan is now the real capital of the 'Ndrangheta, and yet the politics seems not to notice this."
But we need an actor to talk about the problem, only because the others "pretend not to see this problem." Cavalli has bothered the mafia because they "are terrified of the word, and fear leads them to respond with a gesture really encumbering". Because Mafia mobsters can be defeated only with culture, which is why his shows anger them: because he inform, he explain what's happening with the fascinating theater language.
Today he continues to denounce the mafia collusion and infiltration with RadioMafiopoli a section on air on Agoravox Italy where he teases the mafia. Because dishonoring the Mafia is a honor matter.

But in this Italy that always goes down to compromise, the figure of a man who decides to react, instead of entering the vicious circle of do not see do not feel, seems strange. So some people asked him who made him "going off the rails of the normal theater stories".
This people seems not to understand that winning the taboo of talking about the mafia, about the Camorra, about the italian organized crime helps to fight it. While italian politics debate about non-existent issues.