
So there are crimes inside families that received enormous attention in Italy, while others, equally ferocious and absurd, are quickly forgotten by public opinion and news. And then there are transsexuals, prostitutes, drug addicts, immigrants that are killed but always ignored by the media for reasons that can be defined purely racist. Journalists and the public take it for granted that these people died because basically they deserved it. No one cares about their life and death.
Over the same days in which there was the famous murder of Garlasco, a girl killed in her own house, in Verona, a city where murders are not very frequent, a young woman was beaten to death in the city center. Her name too was Chiara like the victim in Garlasco, but she was a drug addict, then no one cared about her and the culprit was never found. Even if he was arrested, however, italian newspapers and TV wouldn't even speak about it. It's thanks to this perverse mechanism that the Italian mafias kill in total peace and impunity every day. They kill two 15 and 22 years old boys near Reggio Calabria, doubly ignored because of the Roma ethnic group and with a little criminal record for theft. They kill a 30 years old man in Campania, a 22 years old boy in front of his friends and his girlfriend and many, many others.
A continuous stream of murders that in today Italy, where for the mainstream media and the average italian the only security emergency are the immigrants, falls into silence. Immigration, however, in 15 years has not lifted by one percentage point the rate of crime in the country, while the crimes associated with mafias have made two major leaps forward for the first time in the '70s, with the expansion of drug trafficking and then again with the '90s, when changed the system of complicity between mafias and the local and national politics. But the Italian viewer receives information only about the crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, and thus accepts the absurdity of their criminalization as a whole, while ignoring the greatest bands of italian criminals that kill people here and there without arousing the slightest alarm, the minimum emergency.
This happens because the mafia aren't an emergency that Italian politics want to solve. Face it would means to sweep away from the parliament all the politicians compromised with the mafia, to clean up the Italian economy intervening against money laundering, illegal employment, building abuse and the illegal disposal of waste in the South which also benefit many companies in the North, to give men and means to the police and the judiciary, to encourage citizens to fight back and respond, to restore entire neighborhoods of the major southern cities. Would means to do all the things that a serious and civilized country would have done decades ago, and that Italian politics will never do, aided by the silence of italian press and tv, cowardly and weak.
Francesco Defferrari
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