Italian politicians should continue to fight the mafia



The journalist and writer Roberto Saviano, author of 'Gomorra', an explosive investigation of the mafia, is intervening in the debate leading up to Italian legislative elections, denouncing the silence of the different parties, despite their past involvement with the mafia. "The fight against the mafia is conspicuously absent from this electoral campaign, on the left as much as on the right. The left has to recognise that it has not always been very strict when dealing with affairs linked to the mafia.... . The intelligence of the left has always been to claim that the mafia only concerns the other side. The superiority complex regarding organised crime! To think yourself free from infiltrations, to think that it is only ever other peoples' problem ... ."