Please watch these during your lunch break
And when you’re watching them, remember that Bastjan Dalli is mentioned in telephone conversations, tapped by Italy’s anti-Mafia/Camorra investigators, between members of two leading Camorra ‘families’, with one of them recommending him to the other as his crucial and influential contact in Malta, describing him as “the brother of the prime minister”.
The conversation was about ploughing the proceeds of crime into an on-line casino based out of Malta. John Dalli & Associates is not mentioned, and John Dalli comes up only as “the prime minister”. But Bastjan Dalli, a subliterate wheeler-dealer and ALLEGED drug smuggler, does not have the operational structure to advise clients on setting up on-line casinos in Malta.
This conversation between two Camorra members is on the record. The transcript is given in a magistrate’s inquiry report and the details were reported by the newspapers in Italy.
Naples native Roberto Saviano wrote Gomorrah, about the Camorra, when he was just 26, eight years ago. He has been living with five armed guards, and the use of two armoured cars, in hiding in North America ever since. His book has sold millions in several languages. Martin Scorsese made the film in 2008.
Both book and film strip these criminals of every last vestige of glamour – no big Mafia weddings with nonna and zio, no iconic Italo-American tough-guy actors – and show them for what they really are: the squalid progeny of the slums made good, rooting about for money in a hell of amoral pragmatism, idolising the Cuban slum character Tony Montana in the 1980s cocaine-trafficking film Scarface, while dealing with the wholly more prosaic reality of running cocaine in Naples.
It’s time we faced the fact that it’s not any different in Malta. Only the slums are missing. The rest is right there, including the commissioned slayings.
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Martin Scicluna once denounced what he called the public squalor, grouping everything, from reckless driving to the horrific intrusion onto public space by relentless speculation.
When the system becomes solely reliant on an acceleration of consumption; concrete, the fragmentation of individual interests and undiluted manifestation of cash, it’s the underworld which compensates for the system’s weaknesses.
When laws are made and maintained to keep the ‘common good’ abreast of legitimate personal liberties, leaving it to politicians to ‘sanction’ dire injustice, criminal organisations become an insurance.
If it’s true we failed our students, generations unable to discern life for themselves, where a fatalistic resigned mindset asking for favours becomes Labour’s actual electoral manifesto, the PN failed miserably.
The sooner that’s engraved inside Pieta’, the better. Otherwise, what will happen is an army of Franco Debono’s arguing the legitimacy of legalising, read regulating, the feudal roots of this place.
If the PN had to retake ‘italianieta’, they should out of an urgent sense of analysis and parallel comparison with what Saviano mentions.
After all, all he did, was remove any sense of romanticism and determine organised criminals as being the banal in charge of pathetic politicians.
And that remains unforgiveable to a camorra which feeds on the myth of eternal godfathers. When all they are is corruption’s caretakers and vote canvassers.
It would be interesting for eg. to analyse sewage for cocaine, perhaps in certain key places of the state. It’s how investigations, under cover and relentless, start in Italy.
It would be simpler to analyse how so many Maltese got so impossibly rich in the last 20 years. It cannot all be hard work and sheer graft?
[Daphne – A lot of it is drug money.They don’t deal in cocaine directly themselves, but they fund the trade at a couple of removes. There’s a lot of liquidity swishing around looking for investment. Part-financing a cocaine consignment, no questions asked and no answers given, brings very high returns.]
I know. My real question is the unspoken one: Why are they running free?
Another one to ask is where do all seized drugs go.
That’s right, supposedly incinerated under ‘strict’ court conditions and control.
Ever seen one of those happening?
Yet another one is where did all that Sicilian mafia money go.
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/03/the-demimonde/
Meantime, there’s been a run on the local mafia perdente, individuals slain in broad daylight, in bars, outside their apartment block, businessmen blown up inside their cars.
Let the good times roll.