Saviano: “At only 26 years old, boxed in an armored car, I want to shout it”

“I was only 26 when it all happened. What were you guys doing at 26? Remember? I take a damn moment to scream that I was only 26 when they boxed me in an armored car, when it all turned into a war of position . I do it now that I read the reasons for the sentence that condemned the boss Bidognetti and the lawyer Santonastaso for mafia threats “. Roberto Saviano publishes a summary of the story on Instagram (now complete in Corriere della Sera) which traces the feelings and thoughts that went through him while reading the sentence at the trial for the Casalesi threats. According to the judges, in fact, in the words pronounced during the trial in question there were precise threats addressed to Saviano. “The strategy was to silence myself, in any way – writes Saviano – The message was simple: if the sentences to the bosses are confirmed, we will hit those who ‘tormented’ us for years without ever giving up, Rosaria Capacchione; and we will hit those who have He turned on the light and made us ‘go to America’, as the boss Antonio Iovine said, that is Roberto Saviano. But what was the request? This is how we find ourselves crushed, in the grip of protection that, over the years, has been slammed in my face as if it were a privilege. Cowards! And now what do I have left? Having poisoned the life of everyone who was around me. As I write this. I see the carabinieri of my escort who at this moment are in front of me, silent … they do not understand today what the pain of the day is: if my failure, the tension of a fight or who knows what “.” I wonder – continues it writer – how much he owes them re weighed also on them living armored with me, feeling this infinite cachinno on them but with the need to have to guard every space. As I write this I wonder why I am sharing these thoughts with you … I do not know if I still believe that, after 15 years of imprisonment and shit, and mud, and attacks it is still worth sharing what I live and what I feel; I don’t even know if anything will ever change for me. What has been taken from you does not add up, it is useless to think that there is time to fix it. I can’t even tell myself that it was worth it because I was only 26 and now, if I were granted a wish, I would ask only this: to be able to walk free. Nothing else “.