Ferdinando Imposimato is a magistrate who has always been opposed to the criminal management of the high speed network, starting with the stretch between Rome and Naples. For this reason, he has been marginalised in a bipartisan way by the parties and excluded from the Antimafia Committee. Judge Imposimato believes that the same risks of mafia infiltration can also be seen in the useless high speed TAV project in the Val di Susa. A project that is absolutely of no use unless to share out 22 billion at the expense of the citizens. In Italy, nothing functions. Monterosso no longer exists because of the lack of care on the part of the politicians. We’ll be retiring at age 67 and it’ll be possible to sack someone without good reasons, all this so as to pay the public debt created by profiteers who don’t stop, who never stop.

Interview with Ferdinando Imposimato, magistrate and former Senator,:

The hands of the mafia on high speed
Hi to the friends of Beppe Grillo. I am Ferdinando Imposimato, a former senator and a former member of the Antimafia Commission. Until 1992, I dealt with the “high speed” projects, because the “high speed” project in Campania was a factor that was destabilising and polluting democracy. From the moment that work started on the “high speed” projects, the mafia-type criminal organisations started planting bombs to discourage all the healthy companies in Campania and in other regions of Italy. When I was given the task of investigating criminality in Campania, I chose to concentrate on the “high speed” projects. I got the Police, the Carabinieri and the Finance Police to find out about the relationships between the “high speed” projects and the companies of organised crime and with the politicians that had relations with organised crime and after about a year starting from these questions that I asked the specialist teams within the State Police, the Carabinieri and the Finance Police, it turned out that this public work cost 100 times more than the cost to realise the works and not just that, but it was verified that many big companies did absolutely nothing, but they took the kickbacks of 30/40% and these companies that were the owners of the big daily papers, the big newspapers, like for example, Il Corriere della Sera, like Il Messaggero, like other newspapers, such as Il Mattino, and I realised that the State paid for this “high speed” that I considered to be absolutely useless given that for the journey between Rome and Naples it cut the journey time by 10 to 15 minutes while it was costing thousands of billions. I wrote a report that I presented to the Commission for discussion. Unfortunately, it turned out that not only the politicians on the Right and in the Centre were involved, but even the politicians of the Left were. I was greatly embarrassed, however I could do nothing other than denounce the facts as they were without making an exception for anyone, in that I could not, even though I had been elected in the ranks of the Left as an independent, I could absolutely not gloss over the participation in this activity of corruption and even of collusion with organised crime, of all the politicians that had been indicated to me by the Finance Police, by the Carabinieri and by the State Police. Thus it happened that I went to discuss this report and I found myself completely isolated. Because all the members of the Antimafia Commission didn’t take part in the sessions.

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The TAV in Val di Susa is a useless project
I tried to carry out an investigation in an objective way and so I turned to the State’s investigative bodies and I turned to the magistrates. I prepared 24 precise questions, without referring to anyone. I said: “Let the investigative sections of the Finance Police find out what are the results of the “high speed” projects, what are the advantages, what are the costs, the companies, any possible relationships between the companies involved in the “high speed” projects with organised crime and with politicians and what is the effective cost.”

What really struck me is that while “high speed” projects cost a lot, on the other hand there were labourers who were striking because they weren’t being paid and they were working unofficially, off the books. I’m talking about labourers working in Campania, in Lazio, on the stretch between Naples and Rome. Obviously this matter extended to other parts of Italy, because I also went to have a look in Florence, even with the support of Idra, this association that is fighting the “high speed” project in Florence. What were the results? There too there was the infiltration of the mafia and of the camorra and disproportionate expenses and above all there was destruction and the safety of people was put at risk because of tunnels that were harming environments that were the heritage of humanity. I am definitely against the “high speed” project in Val di Susa, because I believe that in that there would be a repeat of the same situation that I and so many other colleagues have uncovered in the Centre and in the South and in the north of Italy, that is enrichment, kickbacks, destruction of the environment with minimum advantages. Not just that, there would also be an increase in the public debt that would be then charged to the citizens.

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