The mafia does not shoot and has changed its strategy: it now aims not only at infiltration but at a structural role in the legal economic system. This is the opinion of Gaetano Paci, chief prosecutor of Reggio Emilia, who spoke in Palermo at the demonstration for the anniversary of the killing of Pio La Torre and Rosario Di Salvo. Paci, one of the young people who entered the judiciary in Sicily between the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, touched on the theme of the new economic dimension of the mafia on the model of a “very devious system”. Paci then highlighted the risks of a political process that aims to dismantle the law on the confiscation of assets promoted by Pio La Torre himself who had so alarmed the mafia, starting with Totò Riina. According to Paci, the regression of the system of anti-mafia tools built over time also occurs through the attempt to stop the interdictory measures adopted by the prefectures against polluted companies. “Curiously – he observed – associations have been created which in the name of anti-mafia aim to stop the interdictions”. “We need to keep our guard up – he concluded – so as not to find ourselves orphans of a political vision based on values and on the awareness that the fight against the mafia is a people’s affair”.
