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Per non morire di mafia
La mafia non si arrende mai. È il promemoria quotidiano di un magistrato impegnato da trent'anni contro la criminalità organizzata e convinto che, per contrastarla, sia necessario avere la percezione esatta della sua pericolosità. Le rivelazioni dei pentiti, la celebrazione dei processi, lo smantellamento del vertice di Cosa Nostra non hanno segnato la fine delle cosche. Ai colpi inferti dagli investigatori, l'organizzazione ha ribattuto ogni volta con nuove strategie, dalla collusione con la classe politica dominante, agli omicidi eccellenti, alle stragi. Oggi la mafia sembra scomparsa e invece ha solo cambiato non più una piovra, ma una rete invisibile infiltrata nei colossali affari degli appalti edilizi, della droga, della contraffazione. Un sistema moderno e sofisticato, che si è adattato alla realtà dell'economia globalizzata. Dalla Procura nazionale antimafia, l'organismo che coordina le indagini condotte su fronti interni e internazionali, Pietro Grasso ripercorre le stagioni della guerra alla Cupola siciliana in un racconto schietto, che affronta anche questioni i legami tra mafia e politica, gli scontri all'interno della magistratura, le carenze legislative e di mezzi. Spiega inoltre gli ultimi sviluppi delle attività di 'ndrangheta e camorra e traccia una mappa delle nuove mafie (cinesi, russe, albanesi, nigeriane, colombiane), individuando le strade e gli strumenti "per non morire di mafia", per non sottomettersi al suo potere.
297 pages, Rilegato
First published April 1, 2009
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June 28, 2021
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Mafia has been one of the long list of words along with Pisa, pizza, spaghetti and opera which people think about when they talk about Italy. It’s commonly applied to criminals far beyond Italy. The term has become an umbrella label for the whole world gangs, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Turkish which have little or nothing to do with the Italian original.
The people owe it to Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the judges and prosecuting magistrate. They represent the greatest symbol of the fight against the mafia. They finally were taken down and assassinated. They let the world know that these mafia organisation is not only a myth, a rumour and a story one tells from generation to generation. The Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the Ndrangheta in Calabria, the Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia, and the Camorra in the city of Naples and its environs are the fact that people cannot neglect: these mafia organisation do exist and they operate with those outside Italy too which reminds us about Mario Puzo’s series of the Godfather, a Sicilian-descendent mafia family based in the US. Another fact: the Corleone family do exist not only in Puzo’s novels but also in life.
Pietro Grasso, judge and politician who served as President of the Senate from 2013-2018 is one of those so-considered anti-mafia magistrate. Through his book, he wants to highlight the importance of the anti-mafia campaign and why one should put some efforts into the business. Per Non Morire di Mafia (Not to die (because) of the mafia) is his reflective journey and the conversation regarding the matters.
My only concern about the book is that Grasso only circles in the same points. I dun get the sense about the anti-mafia he keeps compaining but him putting himself into the highlight - making the stories in the book becoming so tendencious and repetitive. He needs to present more perspectives.
It’s okay and informative but not so enlightening as what I expected. John Dickie’s are way better tho - in the more or less same manner. Last: one of my fave quotes 👇🏻
“It is nice to die for what you believe in; those who are afraid die every day, those who are not afraid die only once” (Paolo Borsellino)
Mafia has been one of the long list of words along with Pisa, pizza, spaghetti and opera which people think about when they talk about Italy. It’s commonly applied to criminals far beyond Italy. The term has become an umbrella label for the whole world gangs, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Turkish which have little or nothing to do with the Italian original.
The people owe it to Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the judges and prosecuting magistrate. They represent the greatest symbol of the fight against the mafia. They finally were taken down and assassinated. They let the world know that these mafia organisation is not only a myth, a rumour and a story one tells from generation to generation. The Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the Ndrangheta in Calabria, the Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia, and the Camorra in the city of Naples and its environs are the fact that people cannot neglect: these mafia organisation do exist and they operate with those outside Italy too which reminds us about Mario Puzo’s series of the Godfather, a Sicilian-descendent mafia family based in the US. Another fact: the Corleone family do exist not only in Puzo’s novels but also in life.
Pietro Grasso, judge and politician who served as President of the Senate from 2013-2018 is one of those so-considered anti-mafia magistrate. Through his book, he wants to highlight the importance of the anti-mafia campaign and why one should put some efforts into the business. Per Non Morire di Mafia (Not to die (because) of the mafia) is his reflective journey and the conversation regarding the matters.
My only concern about the book is that Grasso only circles in the same points. I dun get the sense about the anti-mafia he keeps compaining but him putting himself into the highlight - making the stories in the book becoming so tendencious and repetitive. He needs to present more perspectives.
It’s okay and informative but not so enlightening as what I expected. John Dickie’s are way better tho - in the more or less same manner. Last: one of my fave quotes 👇🏻
“It is nice to die for what you believe in; those who are afraid die every day, those who are not afraid die only once” (Paolo Borsellino)
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