On April 1st, after I posted a video about the armored van robbery, I received comments like, "Why are you speaking ill of the Sardinians?" Now this news comes out: "Massive cocaine and marijuana trafficking in Sardinia, dozens arrested, names and roles clear." It doesn't change what I said then.
Only the judicial documents that confirm it today change."
Roberto Saviano returns to the topic of Sardinia and crime. The controversy erupted when, after the sensational robbery of armored vehicles on the Aurelia road in Tuscany, he published a video in which he claimed the perpetrators could be from the island, which breeds that kind of crime.
That he was right was already proven by the footage recorded by witnesses to the robbery: the bandits' accent was unmistakably Sardinian. This was confirmed by the investigations of the Livorno Prosecutor's Office: the commando, according to the investigators who made the arrests, was composed of Sardinians.
Yesterday, another operation by the Cagliari DDA (Anti-Mafia Detectives and Anti-Mafia Unit) led to the execution of 21 precautionary measures against two separate alleged criminal groups trafficking marijuana and cocaine to the Italian peninsula. The drug movement involved several quintals.
"I repeat: talking about organized crime isn't about speaking ill of a region, but about providing information," adds Saviano. "Defending a land means not denying the facts. Reporting these things," says the journalist, referring to the narrative of criminal phenomena rooted in Sardinia, "is not defamation. It's the opposite of silence."
In his social media post, Saviano also reposted a video of his from April, in which he said: "Sardinia is dripping with crime."