Dyed In The Wool - Dyed In The Wool

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Dear Editor,

in recent months, has rightly found space in local newspapers and Naples, in some cases, even the national press, the news opening cooperation with the justice of Gaetano Vassallo, a former environment minister of the Casalesi clan. This collaboration has enabled the initiation of major investigations against ecomafia Caserta and uncovered that the unclean worms in which every sort of wheeler-go hand in hand with local authorities and criminals to sully our territory. There is one particular, however, that unfortunately is not stressed enough about the criminal organizations that deal with waste. And that is the difficulties that the investigative bodies and the judiciary are faced with when they come across a very interesting investigative strand, either for lack of adequate legislation, for want of a substantial condition isolation from the other actors on stage (politics, business, high bureaucracy). Take the case of
Vassallo, for example. The white-collar clan has indicated the places where the cutthroat Caserta have spilled thousands of tonnes of waste, made the names of his accomplices, has denounced his ten brothers, guilty - like him - to have poisoned many acres of countryside, has brought up the former Secretary Nicola Cosentino in the business, indicated as a leader of the clique that, through policy and the Camorra, makes money with the garbage, said (and this is good to remember Roberto Saviano) as even mice die near the sites of illegal spills, raised the veil on the riches accumulated by the waste holding spa, something like forty million euro. All this said, Vassallo, in his interrogations between 2008 and 2009, raising a unanimous chorus of outrage and disbelief among the public locally and nationally. Vassallo possible that he knew all this? Possible that all this happening in Campania? Possible that no one has noticed first?
Yet, Gaetano Vassallo is not a new name for those involved in judicial investigations and not have been so even for those who, for at least twenty years, have left him free to graze up and down Caserta to sow death and disease.
know a lot about him. It was long overdue. In June 1992, Vassallo is arrested in an investigation on drug traffickers and arms. Talking about the Vassallo pm, at the time, it is a turncoat who accused him of having links with some sick mayors of Casertano, confirmed reports from some wiretaps to prove it on very good terms with local politicians. A year later, and we are in 1993, the maxi-inquiry Adelphi opened a gash on the business of illegal dumping. And who ends up right in law 4 thousand pages of information for police? Just Gaetano Vassallo, pointed out - even then - as a link between politics and organized crime. Three years later, Vassallo was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison, compared to a request seven-year advanced by the prosecutor. Obviously, the classroom out of court, the Minister of Environment Casalesi back in play, and it will take another fifteen years to be cornered, and he dismantled the infernal system set up behind the screen of the management A landfill in Cesa, a hinterland town of Caserta, where the same Vassallo was for a long time alderman.
What does this mean? Intuition that the investigation had been right, and long, and - perhaps, perhaps - could save the tormented Ontario (in) felix a decade passes and poisoning, and that it would not hurt to hear the appeal that the national anti-Mafia prosecutor, Piero Grasso, has rivolto al mondo della politica: prevedere il reato associativo ambientale. Una richiesta che il capo dei pm antimafia italiani ha esplicitato, ufficialmente, il 17 giugno 2009 nel corso di un'audizione davanti alla Commissione d'inchiesta sul ciclo rifiuti, e che prevede di far rientrare il traffico di rifiuti nella competenza della Direzione distrettuale antimafia una modifica dell'articolo 51, comma 3bis, del Codice di procedura penale. Si tratta di una modifica capace di attribuire ai pm antimafia la competenza sui reati connessi al ciclo dei rifiuti, mentre gli altri reati resterebbero attribuiti alle singole procure. In questo modo, si consentirebbe anche di recuperare alle indagini l'uso delle intercettazioni telefoniche in materia, che non sempre è possibile use if you are unable to demonstrate traceability of trafficking to organized crime. E - experience shows - that almost never run the Camorra in person as big a deal, on which too many have made personal fortunes still invisible.
(Published in "Time", November 26, 2010)