There are two types of mafia. There is a mafia crime, shooting, killing, threatening, calling for protection money and burn the metal shop, which controls drug trafficking and prostitution, which operates the landfill and waste disposal. And then there is the Mafia culture, what the fishmonger gets the better part of swordfish (without paying ...), the one that jumps the queue at the post because he knows someone behind the counter, what for a medical examination at the hospital no Call Center, but the primary, or maybe even just a nurse.
The central difference between these two modes lies in the perception of being mafia of those who embodies the model. If those who commit crimes in the former case it is conscious (and often, unfortunately, even pride) to act illegally, in the second case there is however no qualms whatsoever, everyone simply tries to make as widely as possible its network power, small or large, feeding, sometimes without realizing it, a cultural system of patronage.
Summer of 2009. And 'the last week of August to Valdina, a State of the Tyrrhenian province of Messina, when the council received by the Culture of Sicily extraordinary funds to be allocated € 25,000 organization of shows.
E'un'occasione extraordinary for a small town, with the same figure that has prepared the entire program of events throughout the summer. Of course there is a problem, a big problem, and of timing: how to write the principle we are now at the end of the month of August, the holidays are already over for many and Valdina is slowly emptying the last holidaymakers. How
also using this unexpected good fortune?
They're discussed in a few days among the members of the administration. The proposals are numerous, such as who is suggested to allocate funding to the organization of a great autumn festival, who proposes to take in Serbian € 25,000 for the New Year's Eve in a show of streets to December 31, Going on sensational engagement of some well-known singer. At the end of the check
Nino Di Stefano, (strong man of the town Tyrrhenian, former first citizen of Valdina for two administrations and now deputy mayor of his ex-deputy mayor, Pierluigi Di Stefano), which requires the choice of Luca Carboni. € 25 000 Yet they seem a little too much, not to mention that the concert should take place on a Friday in late September, in a location different from that chosen for the summer shows and with very little time to organize media coverage of the event. Yet Nino Di Stefano did not listen to reason, he decided to sing on stage will be Valdina Luca Carboni, after all the funding it has provided him and does not accept interference in the decision.
surely amaze the determination of Di Stefano, to the point that some evil may perhaps think that the deputy mayor has worked a few personal return from the assignment of Luca Carboni ... but they are evil, the truth is that Nino Di Stefano is a huge fan of Luke so in love with the melodies of singer / songwriter from Emilia € 25,000 grant of engagement, move heaven and earth, moving boxes and equipment, find a date in an absurd night midweek in late September, just to hear him play.
Peccato che ad ascoltare Carboni qualche settimana più tardi arrivino a malapena 100 persone, che peraltro Carboni nemmeno lo vedranno dal momento che la pioggia causerà lo spostamento dell’esibizione al giorno seguente. Siamo ancora sicuri di aver speso nella maniera più corretta quei 25.000 euro, dottor Di Stefano?
Questa è una piccola storia, un frammento di vita politica quotidiana nella provincia di Messina, uno scorcio minuscolo che mostra come funzionano le amministrazioni comunali in Sicilia.
Discutendo con alcuni amici più volte mi è stato ripetuto che si trattava di un fatto senza interesse, qualcosa che tutti conoscono “perché si sa come vanno queste cose ed allora perché go against people who one day can give you a hand. " Well here is the problem, a problem that brings us back to the opening words, the Mafia culture, such a system in which the unjust, the illegal, it becomes natural.
Yet I still believe in the democratic nature of the country where I live, a nature that allows me the privilege to enjoy the freedom of thought, freedom of speech and expression, rights that allow me, under my responsibility, to launch a look on the things that happen around me, to give an opinion, an opinion with respect to the facts that I find most interesting, without fear of political reprisals, social or even physical, simply actually showing the deep love that binds me to my land by telling what happens there. And 'this is why I always refused the voices of those who, over time, advised me to submit my short stories by omitting the names, surnames, geographical and temporal circumstances. To these friends I always answered that it is precisely in the names in surnames, geographical and temporal circumstances in which we dig the groove between journalism and fiction, between information and fiction.
I never accepted this compromise, because I find it absurd to imagine having to be afraid to express a point of view, an idea, my vision of things.
What then, however, as we all know, that both the mafia does not exist ....
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