Friday 10 September 2010

Mafia and Politics

Weird personal ties between Mafiosi and members of the Italian parliament keep coming up.
Only a few days ago a group of people contested the president o the Senate Schifani, guest speaker at the Democratic Party’s festival. This group was stopped by the anti-riot police. 

This is absolutely absurd! The police was defending a questionable character, prosecuted three times for mafia crimes, a person who had set up partnerships with notorious Mafiosi (not once, but twice!). This world seems rather upside down. The police should be protecting us from people like him!

Now another history about the (not so) Honorable Gasparri has also come up. From the wiretaps of the operation Minosse 2, carried forward between 2000 and 2003 by the Carabinieri of Vibo Valentia, it appears that Gasparri had been invited by Pantaleone Mancuso, one of the most powerful men of ‘Ndrangheta, for lunch. The reason for this meeting has also been revealed by the wiretaps: “Everything has been arranged, votes and everything else are being “prepared””.

The meeting never took place. The Carabinieri were investigating on a drug shipment. Suspicious of the continuous shadowing by the police, Gasparri and Mancuso decided to change their original plans. At the following elections Alleanza Nazionale, nonetheless, received two more points in the province of Vibo Valentia than in the other provinces in Calabria. Now we can guess why.  

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