Cose di Cosa Nostra- Giovanni Falcone

Marcelle Padovani, certainly, but above all Giovanni Falcone. Here Falcone is not merely a figure romanticized after the tragic attack, but a direct witness to years of investigations: into initiation rites, arms and drug trafficking, the system of informants, and that other form of mafia which is silence and complicity.

It is too easy to say that Cosa Nostra is a tragic reality. Cosa Nostra is an institution, legitimized by distorted political and economic tendencies, yet still, in some way, legitimized; and this lack of understanding is itself criminal.

The young French journalist thus preserves a unique testimony, filled with insights and concerns in the face of a monster so complex that it is difficult even to outline. Yet the far-sighted work of the great Palermo magistrate does not falter in the face of difficulty this time either: Marcelle Padovani and Giovanni Falcone break through a wall of silence, dismantle anti-democracy, and lay bare a pathological Italy. And they do all this with the confidence that the monster will soon be defeated.

It is a text to be learned by heart, because Cose di Cosa Nostra is the testimony of a man who gave his life not only for the State, but for the very foundations of our State: Democracy, Freedom, Justice, and Knowledge.

edited: Emilia S.