I’m a friend of Pino Masciari

3 April 2008

I’m a friend of Pino Masciari

I want to launch an appeal, as a citizen and as a representative of Italia dei Valori. I want to launch this appeal in favour of Pino Masciari. Perhaps not all of you know him, but those who follow issues of justice should remember him.
Pino Masciari is a victim of the 'Ndrangheta, because as an entrepreneur, he decided not to suffer the pressures of those who wanted the “pizzo”, and to denounce them. We have important experiences of entrepreneurs who have made this choice: a woman entrepreneur, signora Cordopatri. She too, decided to react to the “pizzo”. She was attacked, she was injured and her brother was killed. We are putting her forward as a candidate in Parliament because we want to move these battles forward. But meanwhile, there’s a dramatic human problem. But also a problem of the judicial police. Pino Masciari, because he performed his duty, is now outside Calabria, because if he goes back they will kill him. He has been away from his territory for some time. He can’t carry on his business activity, living with body guards, living in the north under cover. That has been the situation up until now. But from today he no longer has this possibility
He would like not just the life of a justice witness, so that he is kept in security, and already this is missing for him, but he would like to be able to return to a normal life. For this reason, tired of waiting, he has decided to go back to Calabria and to say “I’m going there to face up to my destiny”.
Italia dei Valori doesn’t want Pino Masciari, or all the other like him, to feel alone. For this reason, it has made some decisions in the field. As well as launching this appeal, it is putting forward as a candidate, a person in the same condition, Teresa Cordopatri. In this way, they too, together with all of us in Parliament, can fight and stand up to this absurdity that makes life intolerable for those who do their duty, while those who go against the law can go into Parliament and make laws to get immunity.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Justice