NO-B DAY (Berlino)

19 luglio 2009, La Repubblica
L’avvocato di Totò Riina (Luca Cianferoni) gli cita: «Questa mattina ha voluto dire anche il resto. E cioè: non guardate solo me, guardatevi dentro anche voi».

No-B Day, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin December 5 2009

20 luglio 2009, La Repubblica
Procuratore di Caltanissetta Sergio Lari: «E’ un messaggio alla mia procura». Il capo dei capi ha parlato con i giornali ma, in realtà, voleva parlare con chi sta indagando. Non è cosa da poco: è stato il primo “discorso” del boss di Corleone dopo 17 anni.

[…] Le ultime indagini sulle stragi siciliane dicono che Paolo Borsellino è morto intorno alla “trattativa” fra mafia e Stato. «O l’hanno ucciso perché non la voleva, o l’hanno ucciso proprio per costringere lo Stato a venire a patti», ha spiegato il procuratore capo di Caltanissetta Sergio Lari.

No-B Day, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin December 5 2009

14 ottobre 2009, La Repubblica
La vedova Borsellino ai pm: «Dopo qualche minuto di silenzio, Paolo mi ha detto: ‘Sai Agnese, ho appena visto la mafia in faccia…’». Un paio d’ore prima aveva raccolto le confessioni di Gaspare Mutolo. Su magistrati collusi, su superpoliziotti che erano spie, su avvocati e ingegneri e medici e commercialisti che erano al servizio dei padrini di Corleone.

[…] Un testimone ha rivelato ai procuratori di Caltanissetta una battuta di Borsellino: «L’ha fatta a me personalmente qualche giorno prima di essere ammazzato. Mi ha detto: ‘Il generale Subranni è punciutu’» (cioè uomo di Cosa nostra ndr).

No-B Day, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin December 5 2009

5 dicembre 2009, La Repubblica
La drammatica dichiarazione, ancora senza riscontro, che Gaspare Spatuzza ha offerto all’aula di Torino. È un j’accuse che non si era mai letto nei verbali di interrogatorio acquisiti al processo: «Berlusconi e Dell’Utri sono i responsabili delle stragi del 1992/1993».

No-B Day, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin December 5 2009

 
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Paolo Borsellino was an Italian anti-Mafia magistrate who was killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, less than two months after his fellow anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone had been assassinated.
[…] In his last video interview, given on May 21, 1992 to Jean Pierre Moscardo and Fabrizio Calvi, Borsellino spoke about the possible link between Cosa Nostra’s mafiosi and rich Italian businessmen such as future Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The interview received surprisingly little coverage on Italian television (half of which was owned by Berlusconi); as of 2007, it has been aired on only one occasion, and that by a satellite channel RaiNews 24 in 2000, in an abridged version which is a mere 30 minutes long (it is 50 minutes long in its original form).  [ wikipedia ]

Marcello Dell’Utri is an influential Italian politician and senior advisor to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. […] Dell’Utri has been found guilty of tax fraud, false accounting, and complicity in conspiracy with the Sicilian Mafia; the conviction for the last charge is pending appeal.  [ wikipedia ]

Salvatore Riina, also known as Totò Riina, is a member of the Sicilian Mafia who became the most powerful member of the criminal organization in the early 1980s.  [ wikipedia ]

Gaspare Spatuzza is a Sicilian mafioso from the Brancaccio quarter in Palermo. He was a killer for the brothers Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano who headed the Mafia family of Brancaccio. After the arrest of the Gravianos in January 1994, he apparently succeeded them as the regent of the Mafia family.
[…] Spatuzza’s boss Giuseppe Graviano told him in 1994 that future prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was bargaining with the Mafia, concerning a political-electoral agreement between Cosa Nostra and Berlusconi’s party Forza Italia, in exchange for certain guarantees – such as to stop the bomb terror campaign. Spatuzza said Graviano disclosed the information to him during a conversation in a bar Graviano owned in the upscale Via Veneto district of the Italian capital Rome. Berlusconi’s right-hand man Marcello Dell’Utri was the intermediary, according to Spatuzza. Dell’Utri has dismissed Spatuzza’s allegations as “nonsense”.  [ wikipedia ]

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No-B Day, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin December 5 2009

No-B Day, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin December 5 2009

 
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[ italians in berlin ]
[ Berlusconi in Tehran ]
[ no berlusconi day ]

picts by [ dewil.ch ] (cc) Berlin, December 5 2009
 
 
 

Libertà di Stampa

Quoting Roberto Saviano—Oct. 2 2009—Italy demands answers, not smears and threats
An extraordinary protest in support of press freedom will mark growing concern over Silvio Berlusconi’s grip on the media

San Giovanni in Laterano, dicembre 2006

 
Anyone in Italy today who criticises the Government or the Prime Minister knows what to expect in return — not a contrary opinion, but a campaign aimed at discrediting him.
 

San Giovanni in Laterano, dicembre 2006

 
He knows that the price for continuing to ask questions and expressing opinions will be paid with his own skin. Anyone who takes a critical stand knows to expect retaliation. For this reason in Italy today press freedom means the freedom not to have your life destroyed; the freedom not to have your career cut short.
 

San Giovanni in Laterano, dicembre 2006

 
[…] Italy is second only to Colombia in the number of people needing police protection. And it holds a European record: in the past three years 200 journalists have been intimidated or threatened, and many have ended up under police protection.
 

San Giovanni in Laterano, dicembre 2006

 
[…] Those, like me, who have seen how the world works when power is unlimited know that if certain barriers are breached there is no guarantee that the flood waters of arbitrary power will not overwhelm everything. But I believe, or rather I hope, that we will overcome our differences and demonstrate that we can give our best when common interests and shared principles are at stake. I want everyone on October 3 to remember what the value of press freedom is. It must no longer be the case that expressing yourself means paying with your soul, your body, your blood. That is freedom of the press.
 

San Giovanni in Laterano, dicembre 2006

 
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Roberto Saviano
In his writings, articles and books he employs prose and news-reporting style to narrate the story of the Camorra (a powerful Neapolitan mafia-like organization), exposing its territory and business connections. [ Wikipedia ]

 
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Behind the story
80 per cent of Italians get their information from television. Mr Berlusconi has built his political career on mastery of TV and marketing. He owns Mediaset, which controls Italy’s three main commercial channels, and as Prime Minister has direct influence over appointments and policy at RAI, the public broadcaster. Mediaset stations have glossed over or suppressed Mr Berlusconi’s alleged involvement with escort girls and showgirls that in any other Western country would be top of the news. But so too has RAI.

[…] Newspapers, too, operate in a climate of intimidation, even menace. Both La Repubblica and L’Unita are being sued by Mr Berlusconi, the former simply for publishing a daily list of ten questions about his conduct, from his unexplained attendance last April at the 18th birthday of an aspiring Naples model to allegations that he spent the night of Barack Obama’s election with a prostitute.

Politics has always pervaded every aspect of Italian life. But dominance of both politics and the media by one man means — as Roberto Saviano points out — that those who dare to ask awkward questions are met not with counter-arguments but personal attacks designed to silence them. In a leading European democracy that is cause for concern.—Richard Owen [ Timesonline ]

 
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San Giovanni in Laterano, dicembre 2006

 
text extract [ Timesonline ] October 2, 2009
picts by [ dewil.ch ] (cc) Rome, December 2006