Face to face with the Prosecutor of the Republic of Catanzaro, Salvatore Curcio, on the evening of the second day of Trame Festival in Lamezia.
“I left the anti -mafia prosecutor after twenty years in 2012 – he told the journalist Pietro Comito and the thick audience in Piazza San Domenico – and that was another era, another way of conceiving investigations. Today’s resources and techniques would have seemed science fiction. Today we will be better, more advanced in technologies, but the moral tension that was breathed in those years I have not breathed anymore ».
Essential, dr. Curcio, on the reform of justice. «For a very articulated speech, we must also make ancesting judges. For many years we have been a little perched on our role and on our function, one of the worst defects of the magistrates is to believe that it is the center of the world, but it is not so, the judicial offices must be open to citizens, it is important to make it clear how and why you act. We do not exercise power – he added – but a public function at the service of the Italian people. The history of the separation of careers has become a bit of a fairy tale, ridden by layers of the lawyer, presented as a panacea of all the evils of justice, but also where a separation of careers the times for a criminal proceeding, the penuries of resources and personal will always be the same, the same will always be the same “.
The afternoon meeting linked to the book published Pellegrini, “The mutations of the ‘Ndrangheta”, together with three of the four authors, John Dickie, Enzo Ciconte and Anna Sergi (the fourth is Roberto Violi), in dialogue with the journalist Danilo Monteleone are also intense. Mutations of the ‘ndrangheta that follow the society, perhaps, rather than anticipating its phenomena, as is convinced, for example, Anna Sergi underlining how much “there is nothing special in the’ ndrangheta, as in all human phenomena there are more capable and less capable people, people who study and who do not study. Their mutations follow society, as they followed it, for example, from the point of view of emigration ».
However, deep roots and, perhaps, in essence unchanged those of the ‘Ndrangheta, as Ciconte recalls: “The Calabrian root is not lost, the forms in which things happen change, for example until twenty years ago we could speak of a single capital, Reggio Calabria, today is no longer so”. Important theme, mutations, also for John Dickie. Indeed, for the scholar the ‘Ndrangheta “has changed a lot over the years but it is important not to emphasize its ability to adapt, to become stronger and stronger, to anticipate trends. It always changes over the years, the ‘ndrangheta, but not always to become stronger, sometimes also to defend itself from state repression ».
Starting from the drug trafficking around the port of Gioia Tauro, the podcast “sea of anger” develops, by the journalist Francesca Berardi and Sergi herself. A journey into the complex territory of the plain, also passing through the humanity of those Calabrians for whom “confidence in the institutions is almost a luxury good” and that the authors have told with the journalist of “Gazzetta del Sud”, Anna Mallamo.
Mallamo herself, with her recent novel published Einaudi, “with the dark I see it”, was instead the protagonist, in the beautiful setting of Palazzo Nicothera-Severisio, of an evening reading with the actress Ada Roncone and in collaboration with Mammut Theater.
