Giuseppe Fava was born in Palazzolo Acreide (sr) in 1925. was a writer, journalist and Italian playwright, essayist and writer as well.
At 22, January 5, 1984 Giuseppe Fava was in the way of the pitch and was going to take a niece who played in Think about it, Jack! Teatro Verga. He had just left the editorial staff of his newspaper. Did not have time to get out of his Renault 5, which was shot five 7.65 caliber bullets in the neck. Initially, the murder was labeled a crime of passion, both from the press and the police. It was said that the gun used was not among those usually used in crimes in the Mafia. It also began to rummage among the papers of The Sicilians, in search of evidence: another hypothesis was the economic motive for the difficulties besetting the magazine. Even
institutions, primarily the Mayor Angelo Munzone, gave weight to this argument, so as not to hold a public ceremony in the presence of the highest offices in the city. The first official statements were sensational. Mr Nino Drago asked for a quick closure of the investigation because "otherwise the riders may choose to relocate their factories in the North." The mayor insisted that the Mafia in Catania did not exist. A said that the high commissioner Emmanuel De Francis, who confirmed that "the mafia has arrived in Catania, I am sure," and the commissioner Augustine Conigliaro, a supporter of the track of the crime of mafia. (Source Wikipedia).
In his article "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Mafia", Fava highlights facts and names related to the collusion between business and entrepreneurship ', politics and the Mafia.
At this point in history, therefore, put forward on the stage the four horsemen of Catania, their forward one step behind and a small crowd of would-be riders of each province in the South, storyteller, advisors, business partners, subcontractors. Who are the four horsemen of Catania? And 'an important question, and even spectacular as the four characters seem to be designed just for show. Profoundly dissimilar from each other in physical appearance and character. Costanzo massive and contemptuous, and suddenly I give unexpectedly sweet-tempered, Finocchiaro gentle, quiet and seemingly shy, little Graci and unfailingly kind to any party, but all dress the same way, at least in official appearances, gray or blue dress fifties tie, cuffs, the elegance of your stylish self-made industrialist-man. All four firms, companies, interests in all directions, industry, agriculture, building, construction. It is not known to them who is the richest, judging from paying taxes would I pay, but others say it is rather Costanzo, the most arrogant, the only one who dared to demand and get a huge contract in Palermo, others indicate Graci , owner of a bank for capital, is the third institution in the region. The wealth of Finocchiaro not be assessed. Many still wonder: Who is this Finocchiaro. Costanzo builds everything. Housing, buildings, tourist villages (the Pearl of the Ionian, on the coast of Catania, has its center in a conference center that does not even exist in Rome, participants in the national congress of judges was in fact the order in which day of the fight against the Mafia, he suddenly realized that they were together and work in one of the temples of power Costanzo). Costanzo also builds highways, bridges, tunnels, dams, and also has the industry needed to produce everything needed for construction: metal beams, machinery, iron rods, prestressed concrete, aluminum frames, tiles, sanitary ware. An independent economic empire that does not have to ask anyone anything. Few companies in Europe compare favorably as to complete the structure. It has a good package of shares in one of the most popular private television channels. It 'also the chairman and largest shareholder of the People's Bank. I give it more diverse interests, I'd say most modern, culturally at least his company seems a step higher. He also builds houses, buildings, bridges, highways, dams, but also owns farms that model look very closely developments in the European market and the latest technical innovations. Has a little pride, a cultural foundation which allocates funds to scientific research at university level. At least he realized that money can not only serve to make more money. The headquarters of the holding company is the portrait itself, a series of buildings of steel, aluminum and metal, an alloy to another, on top of a hill behind Catania, a huge gray shape and blue, as RAI's three palaces of Via Mazzini, stuck together, and surrounded by a huge garden which is accessed only for an entrance guarded by armed men. Looks like the crossing of borders. Of course he also makes his private TV station with which politely involved in informing the public.
Costanzo, the most spectacular, but clearly the spokesman for all and in fact never denied this, stating boldly up to the Italian newspaper: "We have decided to award all procurement transactions and the most important ones for tens or hundreds of billions, leaving the others alone small business of two or three billion, so that they may live too! " The level
more 'top of all this is the political history of the Mafia;
Fava helps us understand the function of politics with a story: In the town of Camporeale, Palermo province, the heart of Sicily, besieged from all over the Province of Palermo mafia c 'Mayor is a Democrat, an honest Democrat, named Pasquale Almerico, which, being also the town clerk of the DC, the card refused to join the party patriarch to a mobster named Vanni Sacco and all his friends, clients, allies and accomplices. Four hundred people. Four hundred tiles. It would have been a political triumph of the party, in an area hitherto stronghold of monarchists and liberals, but the mayor knew that those four hundred new Almerico enrolled would take over the majority and would have sacked the town. With a bold gesture of dignity he refused the tiles. Rejected by the mayor, the mafia, then reappeared to claim the provincial secretary of the Christian Democrats, headed by the still young at that time John Gioia, who imposed the mayor Almerico accommodate those four hundred submissions, but the mayor Almerico, who was a doctor in the country , a gentleman who believed in DC as an ideal of political government, and it was finally a man with his balls, still said no. Then the petitioners made him just know that if he had not surrendered, they would kill him, and the mayor Almerico medical gentleman, always convinced that the Christian Democrats were particularly an ideal, still refused. The provincial secretary angry, suspended from the party and the mayor Almerico those granted four hundred pieces. Mayor Pasquale Almerico began to live waiting for death. He wrote a memorandum, addressed to the provincial and national secretary of the Party denouncing what was happening and even displays the names of the likely killers. And he continued to live in expectation of death. Alone, abandoned by all. No one gave him a straight, I felt a mad visionary who wanted only to continue to operate from only the city marginalizing political forces new and modern. Sometimes accompanied him on the street armed with some friends to protect him. Then even friends disappeared. One evening in October and Pasquale Almerico was leaving the town hall, all the lights went out Camporeale and three opposite sides of the square began shooting at that poor lonely shade. Fifty rounds of gunfire, two volleys of shotgun. Mayor Pasquale Almerico was torn, disfigured and killed Mafia became the bosses of Camporeale. Pasquale Almerico, for years, even in official circles of the party was considered a crazy memory.
The political power that conceals, protects, camouflages, information, contracts, archives. The political power of determining the expenditure of thousands of billions for public works, determining the location and size of the works, it relies on contracts. The President of the region Pier Santi Mattarella too honest Democrat, was killed because he had decided to spend honestly one million of the special law for the remediation of Palermo. Almost certainly among those who attended the funeral moved, expressed sincere condolences, and kissed his hand to his widow, were his murderers. Probably the same people who had followed the funeral of Vice painfully quaestor Boris Giuliano, the investigating judge Cesare Terranova, the public prosecutor Gaetano Costa, secretary of the Communist Pio La Torre. All four murdered because they were already discovering the sutures between politics and the Mafia.
26 years have passed since then and no one has more 'Fava said, even the newspapers have If the policy anniversary, and while he pretends to nothing for working safely in accordance with the powers mafia muiono the memories of those who gave their lives for a value of honesty 'and anti-mafia today derided and trampled.
"Sources: Wikipedia, the Four Horsemen of Giuseppe Fava, the Sicilian-term."
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