CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

The danger of laughing at men who need to be feared: the story of a rebellion built on ridicule.

In Palermo, a law changed the relationship between the state and the mafia. Pio La Torre was one of its driving forces.

From the fields of Sicily, the social reuse of confiscated goods became one of the most innovative policies. Today it celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Emanuela Loi was the first female bodyguard killed by the mafia. She was 24 years old when she died alongside Borsellino in the Via D’Amelio massacre.

Pioneer in complex investigations such as drug trafficking, arms trafficking, and corruption through the pursuit of money.

So far, the State has failed to provide effective—let alone innovative—responses to this phenomenon. In Italy, however, with the support of organized civil society and broad sectors of the political and judicial systems, efforts have been underway for nearly seventy years to develop a series of logical, modern, and interconnected tools to confront mafia organizations and to restore key democratic values that are eroded by mafia activity—chief among them, the public’s trust in

There are women who have not only been victims of the mafias but have also carried out their work against organized crime, fully aware that continuing to confront mafia power would put them in danger — even at risk of death. One of these women — whose name is often known, but whose story rarely is — is Francesca Morvillo. Here is part of her story.

Born into a Sicilian mafia family in the 1970s, Rita Atria defied the fate that Cosa Nostra had mapped out for her simply because she was a woman. Here is part of her story.

Paolo Borsellino was an Italian magistrate who, together with his friend and colleague Giovanni Falcone, led numerous prosecutions against the Sicilian mafia.