Grazie al servizio di Gianni Bisiach "Rapporto da Corleone" il tema della mafia è approdato per la prima volta in TV. In un'azione preparata per due mesi, il giornalista e la troupe Rai fecero un'incursione nel paese a sorpresa in modo che la notizia non si diffondesse, girando duemila metri di pellicola in sole cinque ore: un record per l'epoca. Conduce: Gianni Bisiach | Italia 1961
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00:08Mafia, a problem that must be tackled head on, writes Italo Pietra and asks himself, until when will it be necessary
00:17Be patient with the Mafia? News of Mafia activity fills the news. 50 deaths.
00:26In Palermo, in a few months, a villa blown up, a tugboat torn apart, the reform
00:35agriculture, the construction of aqueducts and roads, the plants that many industries of the
00:42North they went to build on the island, the sacrifice of the public security forces
00:49The Carabinieri are not enough to eradicate this ancient evil. Giovanni Ansaldo writes:
00:57more than a police action that always ends up hitting the common people, the mafiosi
01:04of small size, it is a government action that can directly benefit the state
01:09of the collective spirit from which the Mafia draws nourishment and strength. Fear must be overcome, he says.
01:18Giacomo Maugeri, the story of a young man who the police brought before the body of the
01:25Father. It's a face I think I've seen a few times in my neighborhood, was the answer.
01:32of the young man, but I don't know who he is. We dedicate our report on the mafia to that citizen.
01:39of Corleone who was not afraid to tell some truth in front of the camera, with the
01:45hope that his courage was not in vain.
01:55We enter Corleone. It's a large agricultural center 60 km from Palermo. 15,000 inhabitants, 4,000 illiterates,
02:053,000 unemployed. The agrarian reform and the numerous initiatives undertaken by the State and the
02:10region to resolve the country's crisis have not yielded the expected results,
02:16because here an invisible and feared presence seems to paralyze everything. Unfortunately, history
02:22of Corleone, more than in the streets, you can read on the tombstones in the cemetery and therefore
02:28We were the first to interview the village gravedigger.
02:31Listen, this is a fresh tomb, a new tomb in Corleone and today right here in Corleone
02:36A man was killed, right? By wolf attacks. Yes, yes. Listen, but many people die in this
02:41way. How? Many of them are killed. And what do you want, every now and then something happens, right? Yes, so
02:46of these dead who rest in this cemetery, how many do you think, what percentage can be
02:52I believe there will be a... 20% there will be. Violent deaths? 20%? Yes. No.
03:01it's a mystery
03:02that the interviews are filmed several times to then choose the best one. We also have
03:07repeated the interview, but in the meantime two strangers approached. Listen to how the
03:12tone of the answers. This is a fresh grave, isn't it? Yes, yes. And just today he died here in Corleone,
03:17Was he killed? Yes, yes. Who is he? Is he a Palermo cast or Bernardo? Okay,
03:22I understand. Do many die this way? No, I swear they do, because
03:27It was a, I don't know, a bigger oversight, this was it. An oversight. How many oversights,
03:36How many strange combinations, how many deaths by mistake. From the post-war period to today, many have been killed
03:42in the Corleone area a mayor, two hospital directors, a health insurance doctor, a captain
03:49some carabinieri, a trade unionist and around 200 farmers, shepherds, workers and unemployed people.
03:5656 were killed in the city center and no one has ever counted the number of missing. If
04:03When a man disappears, his family often doesn't turn to the police to look for him.
04:08The family is silent, everyone is silent. This is the law of the mafia. And this is also the
04:14poverty of Corleone. Born to settle, according to justice, disputes between villagers, the mafia
04:30has attempted to replace authority for centuries, with its courts, its laws and its
04:36sentences. It is difficult to establish precise limits to the activity of the mafia because it constitutes
04:42a kind of invisible network that connects the most diverse interests. A hundred years after the unification
04:49In Italy, few things have changed in Corleone. The mafia survives, it exercises the usury of water,
04:56influences the distribution of land, organizes the theft of livestock, imposes tolls. Classical
05:02the blackmail weapon is the lupara, a sawn-off hunting shotgun loaded with buckshot.
05:07Let me give you an example. Many farmers from Corleone, intimidated by the assassination of
05:12trade unionist Rizzotto, they renounced the lands assigned to them by the agrarian reform
05:16in the Drago, Donna Giacomo, Scala, and Cristina fiefdoms. Many were left without work. Four thousand
05:22Corleonesi had to emigrate within a few years to other regions of Italy or abroad.
05:27Let's listen to someone who's about to emigrate. Why are you emigrating?
05:31Why can't you live in Corleone? And why? Is there no work?
05:36There's unemployment. People take to the streets, unable to find a day to feed their children.
05:43How many children do you have? Seven. Your wife. Listen, is it possible that we just can't...
05:48Find a job here in Corleone? Are you absolutely sure? You can't find a job.
05:54And so she has to leave? I'm leaving today. Where are you going?
05:59In Monaco. A Sicilian proverb says, he who eats meat commands meat. Through
06:08Corleone passes supplies of meat to a good part of western Sicily, including
06:13Palermo. The old rural mafia seeks to make the most of this trade.
06:19Clothing sales have an ancient tradition and constitute a veritable mafia industry. Shepherds
06:25and farmers are often robbed of their flocks. Cattle, sheep and pigs are concentrated
06:34in the surroundings of Corleone, especially in the Ficuzza forest which is dominated by the fortress
06:39Busambra. It is a peak almost always covered in fog. In a cave, fossils were found.
06:46the remains of many people killed by the Mafia. Among them, the trade unionist Placido Rizzotto,
06:52whose murderer, 14 years ago, triggered the latest wave of mafia crimes in Corleone. We interviewed
06:58Antonino Rizzotto, brother of the victim.
07:01Where was your brother found?
07:03He was kidnapped in Corleone and then found on the Busambra rock.
07:08Inside the hole, up there, this is that part. There's a hole that had a lot of cats in it,
07:14so many cows thrown down there.
07:17And where is your brother's body now?
07:19One part is inside the hole and one part is at the court of Assisi, in Palermo.
07:25Listen, do you want to tell us about your brother, about how it happened?
07:27You'd better tell my dad about this.
07:31Mr. Carmelo Rizzotto is the father of the trade unionist Placido Rizzotto,
07:36who was killed many years ago.
07:39Listen, Mr. Rizzotto, do you want to tell us how they killed your son?
07:47On the evening of March 48th and 10th they kidnapped him.
07:52In his closed and heartfelt dialect,
07:54Carmelo Rizzotto tells how his son was kidnapped in the Corleone square,
07:59from the assassins who forced him to follow them out of the country
08:03and they dragged him to the top of the Busambra rock,
08:07where they shot him dead.
08:10Then they threw the body into a crevice in the mountain,
08:1360 meters deep.
08:16There is a hole that is about 60 meters deep.
08:22But how did you know in those days that your son was really dead?
08:26Who told him?
08:28Afterwards, after some time, it was known that he was the murderer.
08:33After 21 months, did I know?
08:34After 21 months.
08:35But did she only imagine that he was dead that day?
08:37I figured he was dead, huh?
08:39Why didn't he come back?
08:40He never came back.
08:41Like many others who never return to Corleone, isn't that right?
08:45Eh, eh.
08:46I understand.
08:47But who was it that threw his son down?
08:53The father of the slain trade unionist says that the Carabinieri found his son's body.
08:58on the advice of two residents of Corleone, Pasquale Criscione and Vincenzo Collura.
09:03Liggio, Criscione, or rather there is one there, in my opinion who reports to Pasquale Criscione and makes me
09:09processor.
09:09These two also reportedly confessed to the police that they were accomplices in the crime.
09:14Luciano Liggio was said to have been the material executor.
09:17Liggio fled and was tried in absentia.
09:19But what evidence did you have that these accused were truly guilty of murdering your son?
09:25Collura and Criscione retracted the statements they had made to the Carabinieri in court.
09:31In two trials, all three defendants were acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
09:39There is now a third proceeding underway.
09:44In Corleone, those who know the perpetrators of the crimes are afraid to speak out and, instead of helping, hinder.
09:51the task of justice.
09:52Silence protected the old mafia of the fiefdom.
09:55Silence defends the young mafia, which was born in the post-war period to exploit the reform
10:00agriculture and the construction of roads, dams and canals, obtaining contracts and imposing taxes.
10:06For the first time, the mafia, due to differing interests, split into two factions.
10:11On one side the young mafia gang, headed by Luciano Liggio, accused of numerous
10:16murders.
10:17Liggio has been on the run for 14 years.
10:21On the other side, there is the old mafia, which was said to be led by Michele Navarra,
10:26Corleone's local doctor, director of the civil hospital and one of the most prominent personalities
10:31of the country.
10:33This is the Bianchi hospital, the only hospital in Corleone.
10:37Dr. Michele Navarra, who directed it, was also the inspector of a mutual fund for
10:41towns of Corleone, Mezzo Iuso, Misilmeri, Lercara Friddi, Campo Felice and Roccamena.
10:46His many assignments, perhaps, explain how Dr. Navarra maintained the hospital of
10:51Corleone in these conditions.
10:55Before Navarra the hospital was directed by Professor Carmelo Nicolosi, who was not interested
11:01than of his profession.
11:03Nicolosi wanted to resist the blandishments and threats of the mafia.
11:07He was murdered.
11:09Navarre was his successor.
11:13This grim hospital continues to function today, while the new hospital in Corleone,
11:19modern and well-equipped, it has already been built and is ready to enter into operation for over
11:24ten years.
11:25The hospital is still closed.
11:27August 2, 1958.
11:29Michele Navarra is returning to Corleone from Ercara, on the 1100 driven by his colleague
11:34Dr. Russo.
11:36He notices that a car is following them.
11:38Russo accelerates.
11:39His followers are faster, overtake him and cut him off.
11:43While the 1100 collides with the pursuing car, three pistols and two machine guns are fired from it.
11:48They opened fire, shattering the windshield and killing Dr. Russo instantly.
11:53Navarra instinctively ducks to escape the blows.
11:57But a burst of gunfire hits him through the door, killing him.
12:01The police are focusing their investigations on Luciano Liggio and his gang.
12:07The machine gun and not the traditional shotgun cut short the career of the old doctor, almost as if to symbolize
12:13the gangster phase opened by the young mafia.
12:15Navarra's relatives did not join the court as civil parties.
12:20They say they don't suspect anyone.
12:29Three friends of Navarra who were perhaps trying to avenge him are murdered in one of the most
12:33dramatic shootings that have occurred in the history of Corleone.
12:37Let's try to reconstruct it now.
12:39The three victims are Marco Marino, his brother Giovanni and Pietro Maiuri.
12:44On the evening of September 6, 1958, these three men are confabulating here in Via Adriano Canzoneri
12:51a few steps from their house which is in the Trombaturi courtyard.
12:55The opponents surround them and open fire.
12:59A shot from a lupara mows down Marco Marino.
13:02The body is dragged by the women into the house in the Trombaturi courtyard.
13:07The two survivors draw their guns and throw themselves to the ground, glued to the walls, one by one.
13:12right, the other on the left of the alley.
13:16They slowly retreat, crawling towards Via Carmine which offers the only possibility
13:21of salvation.
13:23But right here is another man lurking with a Thompson submachine gun.
13:28His volley hits Giovanni Marino squarely and he falls on the pavement, at the corner
13:34with Via Misericordia.
13:37One of the attackers runs to take refuge in a house on Via Puccio and hides there,
13:42awaits events.
13:47The streets are now pounded by shotguns.
13:51Shots were fired from the terrace of the Trombaturi courtyard to cover the retreat of Pietro Maiuri, the
13:55youngest of the three.
13:56But a merciless fire strikes him too, here at the height of Via Carmine.
14:01The execution is complete.
14:03The attackers, under fire from the shotguns, fled towards Corso Bentivegna and crossed it,
14:08rushing into the trench formed by the lowering of the road level.
14:13Doors and windows are barred.
14:15The shop shutters are down.
14:18The streets are deserted.
14:23The attackers, who had taken refuge in the trenches of the main street, had a tailor's shop, a photographer, and a perfumery behind them.
14:31One of them tries to reach the tailor's shop by foot, but is hit in the air.
14:36Seriously injured, he still manages to take refuge in the shop.
14:39The pursuers' shots shatter the window and injure a woman and a two-year-old girl.
14:48The shooting is over.
14:51It lasted about 40 minutes.
14:55The injured man was taken to the Bianchi hospital.
14:58The three corpses at the cemetery.
15:00The police identified Liggio and his gang as the likely perpetrators of the massacre.
15:05In Corso Bentivegna, at the place where the shooting took place, we approach the petrol station attendant
15:11to ask him if he remembers anything from that night.
15:15His response is similar to that of many other citizens of Corleone.
15:19I don't know anything.
15:20I don't know anything.
15:22I don't know anything.
15:24Unfortunately, the law of silence is almost never broken.
15:28This is one of the major difficulties we encountered in carrying out this investigation.
15:34What is Giuseppe from Palermo like?
15:35Giuseppe from Palermo, yes.
15:36This is Mr. Giuseppe from Palermo.
15:38He is one of the few people we have met here in Corleone who is willing to talk.
15:43She was also deputy mayor of Corleone.
15:45What year?
15:47I stopped working in '60.
15:50So he knows a lot of things.
15:51In November 60 I know something.
15:53Listen, why is there such reticence in speaking here?
15:57Everyone doesn't want to talk about even the most innocent things.
16:00It's a sense of silence, as we traditionally say here in Corleone,
16:04that people fear from those people they do harm.
16:07So even if he sees something he doesn't speak because he's scared.
16:12What are you afraid of?
16:14He's afraid that some harm will be done to him too.
16:16There is talk of the many crimes that come from here in the Corleone area.
16:20Is there any truth to this?
16:22Yes, Corleone was a town that had committed these crimes and committed many of them.
16:30I understand, I understand.
16:32Crimes, for example, up until yesterday there was a crime in Corleone, a family dispute.
16:38I understand, was a person killed?
16:40Yes, a person was killed.
16:42Listen, it is said that Michele Navarra, the doctor who was killed a few years ago, was involved in these organizations.
16:55details.
16:56Do you know anything about it?
16:58What is said is that he, at least the newspaper says, then the public voice says in the country, that he
17:06he was a mafia boss.
17:07He knew him, yes, what was he like as a person?
17:11As a person he was a tall, robust person.
17:15And what about character?
17:16He had two sides to his character, at least I could see that, he had two sides, one side that seemed good, then a
17:23'other side that...
17:24Was it less good?
17:25It was less good.
17:29Water is precious in Sicily, and is one of the sources of profit for the mafia, which wants a monopoly on it.
17:36And this is why some state and private initiatives for the construction of aqueducts and irrigation canals are
17:42hindered, sometimes at gunpoint.
17:45This is the dam of the Corleone torrent, in Pian della Scala, whose construction, started a few years ago by the Consortium
17:51of the Upper and Middle Belice, is not yet finished.
17:54Only a part of the planned works was completed by this body, as was also demonstrated by a
18:00investigation promoted by the Sicilian region.
18:02The distribution of water was not always uniform.
18:06This farm, called Società Armentizia di Corleone and which was run by Luciano Liggio, had water.
18:15Many small farmers in the area, who have paid contributions to the Consortium, are still waiting for the connection.
18:23These lands must remain barren.
18:26Every now and then, at the foot of the Pian della Scala dam, a man is killed.
18:32Warning or threat to those who wish to resume work.
18:40We asked a farmer from Corleone the last question of this investigation.
18:44He answers us on condition that he is not recognized.
18:48Listen, how come you tolerate a few men being able to dominate the entire situation in your country?
18:53We cannot rebel against them, because we do not actually have the support of an authority.
19:01Because otherwise these criminals, who are actually in the woods and who are actually the perdition of the people,
19:12we too had already been poor enough to rebel.
19:16This is the drama of Corleone.
19:19As long as silence and fear last.
19:23As long as silence and fear last.
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