How I fight the mafia
General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa embodies the anti-mafia struggle in the most straightforward senses: military investigation and repression. But he was also, most tellingly, deeply engaged in civic education. The interview that follows was published in La Repubblica 24 days before his assassinatio...
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| Medienart: | Druck Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2024
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Against the mafia
Jahr: 2024, Seiten: 219-226 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa embodies the anti-mafia struggle in the most straightforward senses: military investigation and repression. But he was also, most tellingly, deeply engaged in civic education. The interview that follows was published in La Repubblica 24 days before his assassination. In it, we find a resolute yet solitary voice who is at once perplexed and angered by the ambiguity of his mission, which lacked formal backing from the state. Dalla Chiesa also demonstrates a profound awareness of the rules of the game. That is, the mafia rarely kills powerful figures but will do so when there exists what he calls a “fatal combination”: The person in question has become too dangerous but can be killed because they are isolated. This was an uncanny description of his own situation. His account of a polymorphic mafia, one that simultaneously inhabits small towns, large cities, political parties and real estate enterprises, was light-years ahead of the public and political awareness of the time. So was his practice of fighting it on all fronts: from the parliament to schools, from banks to large corporations, from south to north. Essentially, both his life and his words tell us that a polymorphic mafia requires, in his words, a “global” anti-mafia. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 226 |
| ISBN: | 9783031296192 |
