«I am very sorry to register the resentment of the municipal administration of Desenzano del Garda following a statement of mine during a television interview with Peter Gomez, when, when asked about the Camorra in Naples, I replied that this phenomenon of organized crime does not it is specific and confined to my city and Campania, but it is ‘an Italian problem’.” Word of Marisa Laurito who, in a note Marisa Laurito, replies to the position taken by the mayor of Desenzano. «I therefore cited, just as an example – explains the actress – another reality in the Brescia area, to which I am emotionally linked, also alluding to the results of the recent authoritative study by the Observatory on organized crime of the University of Milan , according to which ‘the Garda area is one of the areas in Lombardy that feels the most criminal pressure’ for the ‘reinvestment and laundering of money for organized crime'”. «The mafias – concludes Marisa Laurito – are an Italian problem, and thinking that there is a specific and different place where to differentiate this criminal phenomenon certainly does not help to combat it effectively».
The facts and the offending sentence
Interviewed in the broadcast The confession, by Peter Gomez, the actress had declared: «Today the Camorra is no longer just in Naples. The most important Camorra is in the North. In Desenzano. That’s where the most important Camorra resides.” Pietro Avanzi, who is the municipal councilor for safety in Desenzano, replied above Bresciaoggi: «I hope Mrs. Laurito was joking, she doesn’t know our reality. I have been managing Desenzano for seven years and I have never had any tangible sensations of the presence of criminal organisations. Even from the confrontation with the police, such a situation does not emerge: we have phenomena of micro crime, like everywhere, but not even a case of demand for protection money has ever been reported”.
