The lesson was masterly. Etched forever in the annals of the fight against the mafia. The “slow pace” of Castel Gandolfo, summer residence of the Bishop of Rome, is reflected in the watery mirror of Lake Albano. A peaceful village chosen to study the war against the “bosses”, those who rage across half the world in the name of the gang of the moment.
Falcone's lecture
Not a spiritual “retreat” for robes devoted to sacrifice, but a closed-door symposium for Judges ready to crush in any way the universal network of the most brutal organized crime. June is just beginning. The year of our Lord is 1982. For three days, between the fourth and the sixth of the “month of the sun”, the anti-mafia magistrates meet there, in the papal hermitage, Giovanni Falcone, the number one in the “great” fight against “Cosa nostra”. The notes of the “lectio” are contained in a “secret” notebook: «Investigative techniques in matters of the mafia». The speaker is the Chief of Judges, the magistrate who has declared war on the “Boss of bosses”.
Follow the money
In those thirty-eight pages of rules, suggestions, examples and investigation models, which have always been the “Bible” of anti-mafia, there is a summary that has become the “Falcone model” over time: “ Follow the money and you will find the mafia ”. The controversial story of the Capaci massacre, from the perpetrators to the many instigators, is a common thread that inextricably links the lesson of Castel Gandolfo and the “remote-controlled” end of Giovanni Falcone. Forty-three years after that masterly “lectio”, in the land of the Nuraghi, mistakenly considered impenetrable by many, the alarm of mafia infiltration is raised by a Judge who has seen the mafia up close, not by chance he was among the students of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
Scalpel and boulder
The number one of the investigating magistrates of the Island, the Attorney General Luigi Patronaggio, uses words like a scalpel, he rations out statements with an eyedropper, but when it comes to reacting to the risk of the mafia on the Island of the sun and wind he doesn't think twice about showing off the lessons of the "masters". A real "anti-mafia" boulder placed right on the road to the billion-dollar business that risks overwhelming Sardinia with blows of rotating skyscrapers and endless expanses of silicon grids. Luigi Patronaggio, the "PG", doesn't beat around the bush: Too many explicit and specific references to not imagine that the Island's Public Prosecutors have been working for some time to monitor and put under observation that tide of money, public, private and unknown, that is pouring into the Island, in the form of wind and photovoltaic deals. Patronaggio, however, uses words that, if "vivisected", make it clear that the investigators' microscope has its spotlight on the key passages of this maxi speculative operation. The first reference is to "subcontracts". This is the most "renowned" practice for transferring capital to the economic undergrowth, the one that does not have to appear explicitly, but which ends up managing with a "delegation", in many cases forced, work, increased in costs, without a plausible justification other than that of "environmental conditioning", not necessarily linked to "cosa nostra". Just go to the construction sites, around the Island, to notice a slew of companies or similar, all added in marker on the signs posted at the entrances, "passed off" as "subcontracting", but which hide workers arrived from the other side of the world, most of them foreigners, from Eastern countries, from North Africa and from the Iberian side. There are countless companies landed on the Island from "red areas", those where criminal organizations are rampant.
