The italian judiciary froze Casalesi mobsters assets for 120 million euros. It's the only good news among many other negative. Indeed, while police and magistrates do their work against organized crime, amid a thousand difficulties, Italian politicians seek new systems to help the mafia. Beyond just the unappropriate idea to auction Mafia seized goods, which would allow mobsters to repurchase them, the italian House has denied the request for the arrest of Nicola Cosentino.
The undersecretary is accused of external aid to mafia. Dell'Utri also face this accusation that could also involve Berlusconi himself. For this reason, the short trial law is not enough, since it excludes crimes of mafia and terrorism (and for disputable reasons, also illegal immigration). So the idea is to eliminate the crime or make it more restrictive. In this way the Italian politicians could help their mafia friends in perfect peace. Meanwhile, the prosecutor in Palermo asked the trial for Salvatore Cuffaro, UDC, former President of Sicily Region, also for external aid to Mafia.
In the meantime the famous French newspaper Le Monde published an appeal in defense of Antonio Tabucchi: the writer has been sued in a civil action by Senate President Schifani, who ask for a compensation of 1 million and 300,000 euros for an article Tabucchi wrote in defense of journalist Marco Travaglio, who during the show "Che tempo che fa" criticized Schifani because of his work relationships with mobsters in Sicily. The current chairman of the Senate in the past often worked side by side with people later convicted for Mafia. Nothing that could be subject to prosecution, and in fact Schifani has never been on trial, but the relationships of a person should still have some moral weight, especially if he becomes the second Head of State. The civil action obviously is meant to intimidate and silence those who dare to speak about certain issues and it works: because writers and journalists in Italy that deal with the relationship between politics and the Mafia are very few.
All this shows, unfortunately, that a large part of Italian politics seems to have no real intention of fighting mafia, who in the meantime continues to kill, almost every day. But to say that they have no intention of fighting mobsters is just a pitiful understatement. The Mafia is a gigantic power system composed of men who usually start their careers with a variety of crimes, from drug trafficking to extortion and then become increasingly rich and powerful up to infiltrate the "normal" society, like call for tenders, outsourcing, buildings, waste management, businesses, real estate. But this path is full of intimidation, violence and murder. All this is a way to seize the wealth and power at the expense of the rest of society, the non criminal one, the honest part. The Mafia are a bunch of thieves and robbers, absolutely incompatible with a civilized and fair society.
Politicians who had and have dealings with the Mafia cannot be justified, excused or forgiven. They should be ousted from political power in the country, because if the government isn't on the side of those fighting the mafia without the slightest exception, then it is on the side of the mafia.
Francesco Defferrari
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