‘Ndrangheta: repentant complaint,’ my family’s protection revoked although I continue to testify ‘

“It had already happened on October 8, 2014, when my protection program that had expired for three years was revoked, with the excuse of unauthorized interviews. I finished serving my entire sentence on March 23, 2018. I don’t ask for anything but now the same thing is happening to my wife, the same woman who pushed me to collaborate, to our children, to the mother, to my two brothers-in-law, one disabled and the other hit on strips by a drunk on April 21st. to death for my family. ” It is the desperate appeal that Luigi Bonaventura, a former mafioso and collaborator of justice since 2006, launches to the institutions, to Luigi Ciotti di Libera, to the anti-mafia. “What does it take to change a surname? – says the man to Adnkronos – My children went to school with a cross on their shoulders. This system does not want to listen to us, it seeks excuses despite my requests to bring the family to the abroad”. The need to extend the special protection program in light of the dangers to the safety of Bonaventure’s family was raised no later than three months ago. “Yet, despite the rulings of the Dda and the DNA – explains the collaborator of justice – they revoked the protection program falsely accusing my wife of refusing a transfer. I have no protection, my family’s is only on paper, with a lent accommodation and a subsidy that serves to compensate for all the rights that cancel us, not being able to work, roam freely “.” All this for 15 years, 15 years of emptiness in which the rights of two families, of people who have denounced members of the ‘Ndrangheta even before I did it – he insists – which led me to collaborate. We are talking about people who paid for a life limited by protection, who became ill, like my brother-in-law, who were look bad, rejected, denigrated. They promised me a different future for my children. Instead I took them from one battlefield and brought them to another “.” It seems that the opinions expressed in April last from Dda and Dna to the Public Prosecutor of Catanzaro, instead of facilitating us, they turned against us thanks to the central protection commission which preferred to wash their hands – continues Bonaventura – I grew up in one of the most famous and violent families of the Mafia, a child soldier with the mantra of killing, now irrecoverable. I redeemed myself, I served my sentence, I collaborate with 14 anti-mafia prosecutors and on July 20 I have to go to testify in a trial, I have been audited twice for Rinascita Scott. My wife, who took me by the hand and accompanied me in this fight for legality, today risks ending up in the middle of the street with her family. “Hence the request for suspension of the revocation:” If they do not want to renew the program of special protection to my family – concludes the former mafioso all’Adnkronos – at least give him a resolution necessary for 15 years of unpaid contributions, the possibility of organizing himself, the arrangement of documents, the change of name. We are without references, who gives us a home with my background? I think I am an important collaborator, they suspend the revocation at least for the time to organize us. If something does not change today, my family risks having to leave the lodgings on August 23, without subsidies, while I continue to go to testify. Everything seems to be done on purpose to discourage us, but I believe in this fight because I believe in a better society “. (By Silvia Mancinelli)