Organised crime has become the State. It can with ease insert its men into the institutions or influence the voters. It moves packets of votes and the parties are hungry for votes. Without votes they would not exist. The North of Italy is undergoing (has already undergone?) the same process as in the South of the country. Liguria, Lombardy, and Piedmont have become the land of the ‘ndrangheta just like Calabria.

Interview with Christian Abbondanza of ”Casa della legalità” {The House of the Rule of Law}

Citizens against organised crime
I’m Christian Abbondanza of “Casa della legalità”, an voluntary organisation of civil commitment that operates without public financing but simply thanks to contributions from simple citizens, small donations, and regular payments. For years it has been carrying on work to stand up to the mafias, to widespread illegality, to crimes against the environment, to the crookedness of the public administration. We operate in various regions in the North and the South, by means of initiatives throughout the land, using the Internet and the website www.casadellalegalita.org, where we publish information and we deal with information at 360 degrees, providing full names and addresses. Above all, we operate by collecting notifications from the citizens who are still afraid to make an official complaint and by guaranteeing anonymity we ensure that the denunciations arrive at the appropriate authorities. We carry out investigations and we promote them. We carry them out to get every type of useful bit of information, not to have a “scoop” but to provide this to the investigative branches of the State and of the magistracy. With this activity, in the last few years, we have given a significant contribution to certain operations of aggression against the possessions of the groupings of the 'ndrangheta and of Cosa Nostra; and for the adoption of restrictive measures imposed on certain members of those groupings. In other cases we have shortened by years and years, the time needed to have an outcome for some investigations, proceedings and judicial activities, from the South to the North of this country. In other cases we have contributed, to say the least, in ripping up that cloak of opportunistic silence that is destroying the North more than the South and in particular Liguria.
In the last few weeks, some protection for myself has been put in place because I’m considered to be a “susceptible objective”, because those groupings of the 'ndrangheta that over the years we have done most about identifying in their relationships with the Public Administration, with the world of politics, with its business dealings, believe that for them I am “the problem” in Liguria … But if I and the “Casa della Legalità” are a problem for them, we are very happy to be that and in fact we promise, we give our word of honour that we will do everything we can to be their definitive problem in Liguria and elsewhere.

Liguria colonised by the 'ndrangheta
OK. Liguria that by now has been colonised by the 'ndrangheta and even before that by Cosa Nostra, has become a territory where the 'ndrangheta manages to influence the vote and to influence the choices of the public administrations … And it’s not a political matter, it relates to both the Right and the Left. The 'ndrangheta like Cosa Nostra has no political colour. We have collected incontrovertible evidence in the form of videos, photos, documents,

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The parties are involved
And it doesn’t mean that it’s a one-sided issue. And it doesn’t mean that it’s an issue raised because the administration in Bordighera, Vallecrosia and Ventimiglia is Centre Right, friends of Scajola. A few days ago we presented a 242 page report requested by the Access Committee of the town of Andora, led by the Centre Left, prepared by the friends of Claudio Burlando.

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