Three years ago Klaus Davi interviewed Pino Piromalli (boss of ‘Ndrangheta arrested today in the investigation of the Ros coordinated by the DDA of Reggio called “Res Tauro”) after it had served a 22 -year sentence under a hard prison regime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cjerjmlrlg
The full interview released on February 23, 2022
After Nino IMERTI called “Fierce dwarf” another apical level boss (according to final sentences) decides to break the silence and speak for the first time with the press: Giuseppe Piromalli, born in 1945. The interview was also conducted by Klaus Davi, who was flanked by Alessio Fusco’s envoy of NewsMediaset. The two journalists, after going to the boss’s house in Gioia Tauro, asked a series of questions to “face” (this is the historic Nickname of Piromalli).
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Good morning. They are Klaus Davi, the journalist. How are you?
«Not well. Tell me … “
I wanted to ask you some questions. Antonio, your son, how is he? We met in Milan.
“He’s fine.”
So: after 30 years, when they say “the great head of the ‘ndrangheta” … what do you replicate?
“When you say something about me, you must say” a great worker, a great farmer who does not know how to give his soul to carry on what they destroyed “”.
A curiosity: why do they call you “face”?
“Because when I was a small one of my cousins he had fun saying that I had a big face, but in Gioia Tauro they all know me as Pino Piromalli, not as” face “».
The Piromalli family controls the port, many drug trafficking processes. Antonio, your son, controlled the orthomar market.
“No no, let’s not be in a hurry … these things suck me, I have already said 30-40 years ago that this thing about the drug trafficking is a piggler.”
But there were investigations on the Piromalli family with the Pesce family, the Bellocco family. The signs to control the port … and then the jail …
“In jail I was to have favored someone who led from hunger to well -being.”
How did you bring it from hunger to well -being?
“I tell her immediately, because this guy who said” Pino Piromalli was a worker who worked there at the port and told me if he could do this “. But she is talking to me about work and the job must not be a privilege. Everyone must be able to work. He enriched himself, did everything and pointed his finger to say “Pino Piromalli is a character ..”. “.
Even Pittelli, the lawyer who is also his lawyer, said “I know only two great bosses one is Mancuso and the other is Piomalli”.
«He said a slot, because Piromalli must be known as a farmer. A senator feels what you say in the newspapers. Then you of the newspapers, the Holy Father said that the journalist has to raise his butt from the chair and go looking for the genuine news, not what you write … ».
You have also been involved in the oil affair.
“Ninth. But who, the piromalli? “
Even some of the piromalli.
“Someone of the Piomalli”.
But it is always the family, give you.
“Absolutely. I am outside thank God, because God helped me! ».
How do you feel to be the winning family, to have won the feud?
“No. Absolutely no winning … “
How not?
“No, here there is nothing winning, doctor. At the base do you know what is there? A long generation seriousness while when the institution in Italy was not there, understood in the south; Then there was no institution and therefore we were there. There was that someone fell on him something on the ground and ran from those who were available to help him, but not beyond ».
But in exchange for what did you work with the Mancuso family?
«I have known the Mancuso family. We defended ourselves but there have been no other things. There is no sheet that says that the Pyrromalli and Mancuso have been together in something. Absolutely not”.
What is the ‘ndrangheta for her?
«For me the ‘ndrangheta is a form of respect. In the sense: the respect is that if you enter her journalistic system, she will be respecting because she will be 30 years older than those who arrive after … I respect it means to be a person, we call it polite, while you respect it as if it were something overbearing, how to impose something. Respect is not in this sense ».
Therefore a form of culture.
“Culture. Perfect”.
In exchange for what?
“In exchange for what? I say to her immediately. If I go out at 6 in the morning to go to work and I see someone who is in difficulty I stop, because my system leads me to stop to help him. That’s all. “
And what do you ask, though?
«Nothing in return. Sometimes we asked for some political vote; Now not even this we ask ».
That is, did you ask for the votes on behalf of politicians?
“No. There was the election, and someone said “Who do we support? To Tizio, Caio or Sempronio? That seems more deserving to me …” that’s all “.
In addition to the right, have you also supported the left?
“We have always supported everyone.”
Did you make them win?
“No. We did not make them win, we only supported them and we were penalized. It doesn’t bring well ».
But Antonio followed his example and makes 20 years in prison.
“Do you know what is guilty of?”
Control of the Ortomercato di Milano, association, counterfeit oil.
“Is there anyone who can say that Antonio has taken away a hair, threatened him or did this? Nobody”.
How not? There was the trial and it was sentenced.
“What process?”
The whole story of the Otholage of Oil in America. The investigation carried out by the DDA of Reggio Calabria …
«Antonio sent oil to America if there is no possibility here. This oil speech is only for the label, the seller in America and a certain label. Antonio said “you pay me, I do it”. The only mistake made Antonio is that he was made in Italy ».
Don Pino, who killed Rocco Molè? Mommino Piromalli was the suspected killer, but he has never been demonstrated.
“You have to look for these speeches in the institutions, where the police are, the carabinieri etc.”.
So she knows nothing.
“Absolutely not. If I knew I would go to the police ».
But the murders were there and you won the feud.
“But which feud?”
You won!
“But don’t say these things!”
How not? It’s history. Indeed one hundred years of history. If Roberto Di Palma remember? A great process of the DDA!
“Of course I remember it: it represented the public accusation.”
So what?
“Good appetite, I’m not used to talking.”
We thank you.
«I accepted you, we talked to one and a half. I have to go to work … »
Do you go to sign from the carabinieri?
“No. By the police ».
A fault that admits … one?
“I was available to everyone.”
He was wrong people …
“I have not made people wrong, being available they were able to carousely, falsify, manipulate, do everything to say” Piromalli is a mafia “. Piromalli works from morning to evening ».
Are they afraid of her?
“But what fear …”
Who killed Molè? Was it Mommino?
«Good lunch. We are not talking about spicy things ».
Was it Mommino?
“Absolutely not. Do not make me become what I am not. Absolutely not”.