Mafia Sucks

A powerful and moving image, as painful as it is full of life, that of the triumphant little Giuseppe Di Matteo, riding his horse, who rejoices at the arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro.

Giuseppe was the son of Santino di Matteo, a collaborator of justice, and at only twelve years old he was an unwitting victim of the mafia and its revenge. He was kidnapped, held prisoner for 779 days and finally killed and his body dissolved in acid. Among the instigators of the kidnapping there was also Matteo Messina Denaro.

The image that depicts him had appeared for the first time on a wall near the district house of L'Aquila, the day after the boss's move to that structure. But the poster was short-lived and was removed by unknowns in just under 24 hours. As soon as he read the news, the mayor Enzo di Natale could not help but contact Laika to invite her to Borgo Universo. So the municipality of Aielli offered its own wall to revive that work and that smile that now can no longer be extinguished. The wall was inaugurated together with Nicola Di Matteo, Giuseppe's brother: Angela De Luca, mayor of Altofonte; and Don Luigi Ciotti.

The mafia still lives, no longer on massacres but continues to kill: economically, socially and psychologically. The mafia is fought not by delegating, but by embracing, each in its small corner of possibility, a concrete commitment to build and generate in the beautiful. It is fought with culture, with education that is sacred with real and non-criminogenic policies. It is fought with small actions of courage that, if isolated, remain silent voices, but together they form a splendid chorus. We fight with our responsibility as citizens that pushes us to act every day with passion; to move, and not just to move on the wave of emotions.

THE MAFIA SUCKS, and we have no other way to fight it than with our commitment.(cit.Borgouniverso.com)