Tracce, appunti, brevi anticipazioni del libro inchiesta su Cosa Nostra "A schiena dritta" in uscita a marzo per la casa editrice Socialmente.
Quando senti che sei su una storia che vale la pena seguire non è possibile mollare. Anche se le logiche redazionali te lo consiglierebbero. Anche se a volte ti ritrovi a lavorare in un territorio così delicato senza avere le spalle coperte. E allora le coperture te le inventi, le cerchi anche fuori dal tuo giornale. Mi sono trovato, per questo, a dover investire tutto il mio tempo libero su questa inchiesta, tralasciando tanti aspetti della mia vita privata e pagando prezzi, anche economici, che forse non mi potevo permettere di pagare. Ma quando hai trovato le fonti, hai appoggio sul territorio e hai la spinta a andare avanti sarebbe un delitto mollare. E c’era anche un altro aspetto da non sottovalutare. La stampa nazionale aveva praticamente mollato, all’epoca, il filone Cosa Nostra, se non per qualche sporadica uscita, accodandosi al filone “Gomorra” che, grazie al successo editoriale del libro di Roberto Saviano, tirava molto di più dell’inflazionata mafia siciliana. Meglio le sparatorie spettacolari dei Casalesi, che ti permettono di riempire pagine senza sforzo, che interpretare i segnali che arrivavano dal palermitano.
Segnali che, invece, raccontavano di una mafia in ebollizione, di una rete di famiglie, gruppi e districts in search of a new order. And history tells us that the new order, in these parts, you get almost always through the blood.
Let me explain. Cosa Nostra had the time and resources to meet the offensive of the state, after the arrest of Bernardo "Binnu" Provenzano, perhaps for the first time in the history of this conflict between illegal power and legal power, has not stopped, has continued its actions affect the emerging and dangerous Lo Piccolo. Then something happened, exactly when yet another round of elections el'ennesimo change of government. Just in 2008, after the latest blitz of catturandi, the state has lost ground: on staff cuts public safety, cuts on the resources (even oil), competition and lack of coordination between the military and civilian corps of police questioning of instruments such as the 41 bis regime for Mafia bosses in prison for breaking essential communications in and out of prison and thus break the chain of command of the clan. All this has helped, and not a little to weaken the state in fighting the Mafia, and in particular the decline of attention has focused on Sicily and the ongoing changes in the balance of Cosa Nostra in Palermo and Trapani. Cosa Nostra Mafia unlike other associations, is a waterproof "inputs" external, is based on a distorted set of values \u200b\u200b(but still encoded and shared) and a detailed control of the territories physical, economic and political. With the money, intimidation, and only at the end with violence. Cosa Nostra is patient, use weapons and murder only as a last resort. The anomaly is that the Sicilian Mafia, not shots. The anomaly is that the shots. The strategy stragista of Toto Riina was an anomaly in the history of the Mafia. The clan does not want to be seen, the tradition is this. It is Cosa Nostra, after more than a century of reliable history and tradition.
A mosaic composed of notes, lectures, meetings, shoes worn out, surveys and reports. Step by step, page after page, with the knowledge that is about to break out of a new mafia war in one of the most complex and difficult in our country: the triangle of the traditional power of the Corleone family strategic. Cinisi, Punta Raisi, Borgetto, Corleone, San Giuseppe Jato, Partinico, and then Terrasini, Trapani, Alcamo Castellammare del Golfo: this is the land of the Mafia clan winning the war of the eighties that led to the creation of absolute power a man and his allies: Totò Riina, Bernardo Provenzano and Leoluca Bagarella. This is the area where today is playing a new mafia war that involves the "offspring" of boss arrested rank as some of the fugitives and Dominic Matteo Messina Denaro Raccuglia, and some higher levels "low" mafia organization that, under the illusion of a void left by the clan beheaded by the state, seeking to emerge and gain the rank of field boss. From 2003 onwards in this area is prepared and consumed, a bloody conflict was born as a result of the takeover attempt of the Lo Piccolo with the objective of taking back control of Palermo and the province.
A young fellow came to Sicily, when I published the first articles on the left - Events related to this conflict, told me: 'What are you doing? You start writing about this mob and rough peasant? ". Rozza and peasants? No, I wrote and I write about the mafia and just because Cosa Nostra is this: the boss can decide whom to send to the Senate at the same time, as party to a contract, how to control the whole economic system and milk production of the island, play in your bag, do international business and then shoot a rival as a matter of a pasture of cows with the same attention and with the same determination. Because the mafia is power from the moment the wife of a boss goes to a supermarket and not pay the cost when speculating on the Milan stock exchange securities or London. Power, fear, silence and "stalks". The Mafia is a collection of many aspects and desires, but without control territory does not exist. And if you really understand what it is and how it works Cosa Nostra you begin to understand who controls or who aspires to control a given territory. This territory.
Cosa Nostra is not only a power, power is more closely related to each other. Plot that today, in a forced reorganization caused by the numerous arrests, is emerging as a potential scenario of escalating internal conflict, and a possible, if not already under way, mafia war. "Even before the arrest of Lo Piccolo - Give states the report covering the first half of 2008 - as ascertained by the investigative findings in terms of the" Gotha "of 2006, the balances of the criminal organization in Sicily were already in a delicate stage, further aggravated by the absence of the figure of Bernardo Provenzano center of gravity and, consequently, its ability to mediate between the influential opposition existing between the souls "Corleone" and " Palermo. In this context of creeping unrest in 2007, the mandate Mafioso ruled by Salvatore Lo Piccolo had taken a hegemonic strategy, based not only on expanding regional influence, but also on the planning of profound changes in the historical consolidated balance mafiosi, such as gradual return of members of families losing of the old mafia wars, the so-called "escaped" and attempts to restore, in cooperation with U.S. households, a more independent and stronger than the Sicilian team in international drug trafficking. "
And the report goes on to state what is today the scene of the first powers in the fight for control of territory "traditional" and then the whole structure Mafia island: "The likely operational stasis fabric mafia tends to curb the autonomy achieved by the various components, as well as any illegal activity and the consequential aspects of decision making in their respective areas of competence, as seems to happen for the fugitive in Partinico and Domenico Raccuglia at Alton, and Matteo Messina Denaro to the same in the province of Trapani. In contrast, documentation, found in the course of the arrest of Lo Piccolo, he was the continuing desire to bring the structure of Cosa Nostra old hierarchical architecture, albeit with a different subdivision district prisons, and the recovery of the old rules of behavior. "
Raccuglia and Messina Denaro are both "graduates" from more than a decade hiding. Each of them aspires to inherit the power to Riina and "Binnu" Provenzano. What is moving in the territory in recent months is the result of these ambitions, which are also at odds with the still powerful Riina's Corleone clan. Joseph Salvatore, the son of the elderly in prison under boss Toto "intermittent" system 41a in the prison of Opera, was released from prison for the first running of time and then acquitted on appeal to three murders that occurred right in the village of Palermo between January and February 1995. Riina's son was accused of being involved in the murder of Joseph and Joanne Giammona's husband, Francesco Saporito. And the wife of Toto, Antoinette, wife of Salvatore Riina in hiding since 1974, is the younger sister of Calogero and Leoluca Bagarella, and was also the first woman indicted for Mafia crimes. During the period of incarceration of his son would keep up the skeleton the family business. The presence of the clan Riina is thus guaranteed. And this family was affected and continues to weigh in this area already red-hot rivalry between Dominic Racco and Matteo Messina Denaro. Also because Totò Riina is formally still the head of Cosa Nostra.
Back to the DIA report, which states that "The most recent investigations have certified under a strong flow, characterized by the movement of several men of honor from a deployment to another, or from the removal of families dall'accorpamento from the different definition of zones of influence districts, often in a logic of uncertain alliances, surely outcome the lack of apical components, capable of ensuring a real and effective leadership of the criminal structure. " It is a picture very similar to that Cosa Nostra was faced in 1969/70 after the massacre of Viale Lazio wave of arrests that ended in what is called "the first mafia war," but laid the situation bases to the rise of an emergent gauge, precisely, of Toto Riina through the "slaughter" of 1978/82. A bloodbath that paved the way for strategy stragista Cosa Nostra. New alliances, new camps: this is what is happening. To do what?
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