photo from Repubblica.it
The slaughter of 6 Italians in Duisburg in Germany is really serious in itself and it is for the image it gives of our country.
As a lad, I worked in Germany in a saw mill. And I know well the sacrifices that our nationals make and also, unfortunately the labels that are plastered on them. One of these is mafia. Organised crime has become ever stronger in our country. Even in Parliament there are people who have been shown to have mafia connections. Abroad, people know this and they judge us accordingly.
Whole regions of Italy are subject to the blackmail of organised crime and often the boundary between what is legal and what is illegal tends to disappear. The mafia has an international breathing space and this is known to everyone. They are a multinationals and they have turnovers that are more than certain States. Duisburg is a signal of the contagion, of the spread of organised crime made in Italy in Europe.
Among all the priorities of this Government, and there are so many of them thanks to the Berlusconi Government that preceded it, the fight against organised crime must become the top priority. Today it seems to me that it is undervalued for its effects at economic, social and political levels.