After the arrests in recent days, in this hot month of July 2010, we find that Lombardy is affected by pollution as if we were gangster in Calabria, Sicily, Campania. But it really is new?
A recent book by Mark Alfieri, plague in Milan, published in 2009, devotes an entire chapter, significantly entitled, Guns & Yards, the penetration of the 'Ndrangheta in Lombardy. On closer analysis, the arrests of these days seem underworld conducted on the geography described in the book of Alfieri.
First conclusion: we knew everything, or almost everything! That in Lombardy by the time the 'Ndrangheta had interests in construction companies and not just, you know, thanks to a number of investigations by the judiciary. The chapter of the book reminded of Alfieri ends this way: Before to such a picture, you do not understand why the Confederation of Southern denounce lace, infiltration and entrepreneurs collude, and Lombardy instead of their colleagues to continue to shrug , resent the comparison, look the other way. Pull straight opinionated. As if the mafia did not exist, even in yards. He said once Paul Pillitteri, twenty years ago. The Mafia in Milan today existed then imagine .
is what happened on time these days, so that the deafening silence in the face of regional summits of Confindustria, Emma Marcegaglia, returned to Mantua, he felt compelled to applaud the action of the forces of ' order and defend its fellow industrial Lombardy.
A question arises: why now, but the repressive action and not a year ago?
It 'pretty obvious that these days both in the home straight the decision on how to intervene in areas that will be part of Expo 2015. Buy it, do not buy? Above all, those who buy? On loan, or direct action? This is the dilemma that grips people in power in Lombardy.
long as it was to dispose of toxic waste in Campania and clean up the dirty money in the corresponding centers finance Lombard nobody was shocked. Until it came to clean up the dirty money from the proceeds of the drug has no quibble.
In Lombardy, you know, civil society is strong, professional associations, trade unions are present, alive, no one can even stand the idea that we are at the levels dell'aborrito South
Until the breaking of contracts in the "open-air workshop in the Po Valley" has allowed to water down and dilute all, it was pretended nothing. Now, the Mafia, 'Ndrangheta and the Camorra were going to intervene directly in the operation Expo, someone must have thought it was too much and had to interpose.
a kind of state of Lombardy to indexing, which occurs only when a risk to the business of the strong powers. The league prides itself on putting under control the mafia associations with the Minister Maroni and does not realize that it set the north of the country, with its short-sightedness premises and the penetration underworld.
Meanwhile, we discover that in twenty years of power of Communion and Liberation, the Northern League and the People of Liberty, Lombardy has become the crossroads of criminal power, less secure and less free its people. The myopia of the ruling classes Lombard is extraordinary in that regard.
The organized crime is not that of the film, which will ruin the country's image, the octopus is real, which prevents Lombard and Italian society of civil development and live freely.
In this hot July samples of populism are at sea, Maroni wants to end his political career as mayor of Varese, the Assolombarda silent, Formigoni shake, the PD Maiorino invites politicians , whose names bounce in interceptions, to go to the magistrates.
In "Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky try new harmonies, in Expo 2015 is not enough to reject the influences of" foreign "it is essential to combat the power of the state and the healthy part of society. Even politics.
