How beautiful, the enemy has returned
Of Claudio Risé
Source: Claudio Risé
Breathe fresh air. The words prove it: those repeated to the point of exhaustion decay and to the general amazement old ones return. Drier, irritating, but perhaps even truer. For example, the word enemy is back in vogue, said so, without much fuss. As Donald Trump did from Helsinki, before the meeting with Vladimir Putin, when in an interview with American television CBS he said: “I think the European Union is an enemy. You wouldn't believe it, but Europeans are enemies”. The statement is not presented as a personal matter, even if the large inflated puppet with a Trump-infant with diaper and cell phone in hand, hoisted into the sky for 16 thousand pounds in front of the Parliament in London with the blessing of the mayor Sadiq Khan will certainly have had his part in the matter, as well as the anti-Donald marches in the streets of Helsinki from where the President gave the interview. But Trump reassures: enemies exist, it's not a scandal, nor anything new. On the contrary: “It doesn't mean they're bad.", continued the US president. “It means they are competing with us”. Here again is the child with his scandalous cry that is changing the world: the King is naked.
We are not all friends. But let's not make it a tragedy. It was the story they told us before that was a farce. The displeased European establishment then immediately intervenes with heartfelt denials and firm condemnations, as per the script: the President of the EU Council, Donald Tusk assures us that no! “The US and the EU are excellent friends! Anyone who says they are enemies spreads fake news”, brandishing the most used and worn cliché of the moment to try to fix everything. In reality the fake news, lasted far too long, it's the one that: “we are all friends”. The absolute novelty is the great return of the linguistic category, affective and cognitive of the friend-enemy, which has always presided over human life, to relationships between people, and of course also between states. Well yes: It's true that we don't always love each other; but there's nothing wrong with that and there's no need to make a big deal out of it. Generally, as Puer Robustus says Donald Trump is simply because “we are competing”: better to admit it, rather than cheating the cards. Read More
Mafia, duro colpo al "clan dei Casamonica": 31 arrests, 6 wanted
Reporting of M.R.
They are accused of having set up an organization dedicated to drug trafficking, extortion, wear, with the aggravating circumstance of the mafia method. New attack on journalists: Tg2 and Repubblica crews were beaten
E’ Of 31 arrests and 6 wanted people the balance sheet of a maxi operation by the Carabinieri of the Provincial Command of Rome against the “Casamonica clan”. Precautionary measures in prison, issued by the investigating judge of Rome at the request of the local DDA, were carried out between the Capital, Reggio Calabria and Cosenza. Those arrested are accused of having set up an organization dedicated to drug trafficking, extortion, wear, with the aggravating circumstance of mafia method.
Among those arrested there is also Domenico Spada, called Vulcan, former boxing champion. According to what has been learned, his gym in Marino was also seized, at the gates of Rome. According to the investigators, the top role of promoter is held by Giuseppe Casamonica, recently released from prison after approx 10 years of detention.
As part of the operation they were premises in the center of Rome were also seized, including a nightclub in Testaccio and a restaurant in the Pantheon area. E’ the definitive calculation of the value of the goods involved is still underway. During the searches they were requisitioned 50 thousand euros in cash, current accounts, twenty cars and dozens of luxury watches.
For the investigators, the one set up by the Casamonicas is one “indigenous mafia association” structured on multiple criminal groups, predominantly family-based, equipped with their own decision-making autonomy and dedicated to various crimes including drug dealing, usury and extortion. The investigations into the clan began in the summer 2015, before the funeral show on the outskirts of Rome “Uncle Vittorio”, member of the family.
According to what was ascertained by investigators, “they didn't need to use violence, the name alone was enough of the Casamonica family to gain respect”. The victims of the clan, Indeed, they didn't report it both for fears of retaliation and because paying the Casamonicas represented a sort of “life insurance”. Among the victims of usury there is also one of Franco Zeffirelli's sons.
As part of the operation they were premises in the center of Rome were also seized, including a nightclub in Testaccio and a restaurant in the Pantheon area. E’ the definitive calculation of the value of the goods involved is still underway. During the searches they were requisitioned 50 thousand euros in cash, current accounts, twenty cars and dozens of luxury watches.
For the investigators, the one set up by the Casamonicas is one “indigenous mafia association” structured on multiple criminal groups, predominantly family-based, equipped with their own decision-making autonomy and dedicated to various crimes including drug dealing, usury and extortion. The investigations into the clan began in the summer 2015, before the funeral show on the outskirts of Rome “Uncle Vittorio”, member of the family.
According to what was ascertained by investigators, “they didn't need to use violence, the name alone was enough of the Casamonica family to gain respect”. The victims of the clan, Indeed, they didn't report it both for fears of retaliation and because paying the Casamonicas represented a sort of “life insurance”. Among the victims of usury there is also one of Franco Zeffirelli's sons.