There has been a total and unacceptable delegation of responsibility to the judiciary and law enforcement agencies to deal solely with the problem of the mafia [...]. And there is a fundamental misunderstanding: it is said that that politician was close to the mafia, that that politician had been accused of having interests that converged with the mafia, but the judiciary, unable to ascertain the evidence, did not convict him, ergo that man is honest... and no! [...] This argument does not hold water, because the judiciary can only make a judicial assessment. It can say, well, there are suspicions, even serious suspicions, but I don't have the evidence and legal certainty to say that this man is a mafioso. However, municipal, regional, and provincial councils should have drawn the necessary conclusions from certain suspicious links between politicians and mafiosi, considering the politician in question to be unreliable in the management of public affairs. They hid behind the ruling, i.e., this man has never been convicted, so he is not a mafioso, so he is an honest man! | I complici, pp. 6-7
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