Labor: “There has been a state-mafia negotiation, I am not defeated”

“The sentence says that the fact is there, they have dealt with the mafia. The sentence says that they have dealt and it is not a crime”. Marco Travaglio expresses himself in this way to Otto e mezzo, in a close confrontation with Alessandro Sallusti, after the sentence of the trial on the state-mafia negotiation. “There is not a single word, written by me in 10 years on the Mafia state negotiation process, that needs to be changed. Do I feel defeated? No, in the process I was not a defendant, civil party, lawyer or magistrate. I am a journalist who told the negotiation “, says Travaglio. “I went to reread what I wrote: there is not a word that needs to be changed on everything we wrote after the sentence. This sentence never writes ‘the fact does not exist’, which would mean ‘nothing happened’ . It says, with regard to the carabinieri, ‘the fact does not constitute a crime.’ As regards Marcello Dell’Utri, it says ‘he did not commit the deed’. That it was committed by someone else. the mafia have been convicted “, says Travaglio.” I – he adds – have had 300 criminal trials and have been acquitted in 299 cases. Should I say that 299 trials should not have been carried out? the facts have occurred and if they are a crime “.