A brief summary of the interview by Stephen Brown for Reuters is now online. It, alas, lacks the expressive power of Roberto's language.
Solidarity has been expressed throughout the day by everyone ranging from the president of the republic to his numerous readers. The euro-parliamentarian Claudio Fava, son of the writer Giuseppe Fava who was murdered by the mafia, put it aptly:
"Che triste Paese sta diventando l'Italia: Saviano per vivere la propria vita deve andare all'estero, un sottosegretario - l'on. Cosentino, chiamato in causa da pentiti della camorra - rimane imperterrito nel governo".
"What a sad country has Italy become: In order to live a decent life Saviano must go abroad [while] undersecretary [of Economy]- Honourable Cosentino, accused by camorra supergrasses- remains blithely in the government."
Cosentino's decade long relations with the Casalese families has been the object of two scoops published by l'Espresso this past month reporting grave accusations that have been completely ignored by the press and the media as well as the interested parties.
After all, Mr. Cosentino has been doing a good job cleaning up the Naples garbage.
The Casalesi clan could be planning a 'spectacular assassination with explosives'The author of Gomorrah, the book about the Naples gang wars that was turned into a prize-winning film, could be dead by Christmas along with his bodyguards, according to a well-placed supergrass. Roberto Saviano, the 29-year-old journalist whose novel-like chronicle of the brutal rule of the Camorra has sold more than a million copies, has been under heavy police protection for two years. Since then, he has led the life of Salman Rushdie during the Fatwa years but with more guards, armed with more fire power, to protect him from a more tangible threat. Despite the carabinieri officers- with whom he lives, eats, boxes and travels - the Camorra appear more determined than ever to eliminate the man who has given them the international notoriety that was previously the preserve of the Sicilian Mafia.
The author of Gomorrah, the book about the Naples gang wars that was turned into a prize-winning film, could be dead by Christmas along with his bodyguards, according to a well-placed supergrass.
Roberto Saviano, the 29-year-old journalist whose novel-like chronicle of the brutal rule of the Camorra has sold more than a million copies, has been under heavy police protection for two years.
Since then, he has led the life of Salman Rushdie during the Fatwa years but with more guards, armed with more fire power, to protect him from a more tangible threat. Despite the carabinieri officers- with whom he lives, eats, boxes and travels - the Camorra appear more determined than ever to eliminate the man who has given them the international notoriety that was previously the preserve of the Sicilian Mafia.
