September 8 on the stage in Bologna there was also Marco Travaglio. He got a reception like that of U2, Bruce Springsteen e Vasco Rossi all together. He was even a bit shocked… Have a look at the young men and women in Piazza Maggiore in the video. It’s really great.


“Now I want to present to you who I’d want for a Minister of Justice: Marco Travaglio! You’re even a rock star now!”


“Good evening… Good evening… I’m frightened… don’t do that or I’ll be frightened to speak… I’m pleased to be talking with other journalists because journalists are not a very popular group of people, and rightly so. I represent a profession of newspaper journalists who have written practically nothing about this day and thus they will be obliged to chase it up in the next few days because they hadn’t realised what was happening, as often happens, but I can assure you that we are not all like that. One example is Ferruccio, Massimo is more than a journalist. I would like to remind you of Lirio Abbate, a journalist from Palermo under threat from the mafia because he has written the book "I complici" {The accomplices} with Peter Gomez which names those who are mafia accomplices. The fact that the mafia has straight away identified him does not say much for the profession of journalists because it means that many of them have never named those people, otherwise the mafia would have to threaten everyone and even they wouldn’t be able to.
There’s much talk of the rule of law, of the certainty of the sentence, of zero tolerance. It’s even been talked about today. And naturally so, who doesn’t agree? They are all great things. In fact Previti was sentenced to 7 and a half years in prison and he served 4 and a half days in prison. Out of 7and a half years, just 4 and a half days. To release him, (well he was already out of prison as he was under house arrest), they released about 50,000 last year, a clever move if you think about it: to free one person, you release 50,000 so it goes unnoticed that he was set free. It would have been better to say “let’s release him and keep the others inside”, but we are administered by people who are very astute. […]
I don’t want to add anything about Mastella because he has been dealt with quite enough during the day but I would like to point out that .. if it’s true: he’s never been dealt with enough… but no one remembers, and it says so in the book by Abbate and Gomez, that Mastella is a talent scout. He had noticed a very promising lad in Villabate, in the province of Palermo: he was leader of the local council of Villabate and the council was dissolved because of the mafia. Then the council was re-formed and he was leader once more. It was dissolved again. This lad is called Francesco Campanella and he’s the right hand man of the Villabate boss called Nino Mandalà. Then, in his spare time, he was a politician in the local council in the UDEUR naturally. Mastella wanted to reward him because this lad deserved a prize, so he made him the national secretary of the young UDEUR. I don’t know whether the young UDEUR people exist, but the national secretary exists and he is Campanella. Campanella is now in prison because he is a mafia man and when he got married, he had as witnesses on one side Mastella and on the other Totò Cuffaro. Just think what a marriage: in the middle a mafia man, and on one side the future Minister of Justice and on the other the future Governor of Sicily.
[…] Minister Amato is offering himself as Italy’s Rudolph Giuliani. Grillo has told you where he comes from: he wasn’t the New York prosecutor but Craxi’s right hand man and he never understood where he was. Then there’s a tiny “Amatino”, a tiny Rudy Giuliani, a certain town council cabinet member Cioni, that you have never had the luck to have but the people of Florence have. He’s D’Alema’s head in Florence, and yet suddenly given that his wife was insulted by a windscreen washer, has ordered that anyone washing windscreens is committing a crime. What’s the crime? The lack of respect of an order by the mayor. Now it’s not easy to understand which windows can still be washed in Florence. Just imagine someone who is washing the windscreen of his own car: in theory he too is doing what is forbidden, with the hose pipe on a Sunday. It’s not easy to understand where the crime is in washing windscreens. There are those who say: “but the windscreen washers threaten you” well that is the crime of threatening behaviour so there’s no need for an order. “Well that one scratches your car”, criminal damage is already forbidden. The act of washing windscreens cannot be a crime. […]
I’ll finish. Why do they start from window washers? Because if they started from the top like Rudy Giuliani did they would empty the Parliament, they would half the antiMafia commission, they would empty Confindustria, several associations would loose many of their important people. […]
It is not useless what we are doing because Previti when, after fifteen months, he was finally sent out of Parliament at the beginning of August, he gave an interview to a newspaper and said: “Do you know who sent me out of Parliament? Travaglio and Grillo”. I must say that before that I felt very useless; but from when Previti has given me this beautiful acknowledgment I feel a little less useless!
It means that we must continue on this track and things will happen. For the rest, we hope that Cuffaro and Dell’Utri will wash some windows and therefore we will see them too in jail. Good evening, ciao!“ Marco Travaglio