Antonino Belnome, the repentant Lombard boss tells himself: “So the 'Ndrangheta takes away your freedom”. The documentary of Swiss TV
by FQ | APRIL 11, 2021
Antonino Belnome is one of the most important repentants of the Lombard 'Ndrangheta . From a Calabrian family, but born and raised in Giussano, in Brianza , where he climbed the ranks of the organization until he was not yet forty years old, the rank of godfather. Identified by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate as one of the killers of the boss Carmelo Novella , killed at the tables of a bar, in broad daylight, in San Vittore Olona in 2008, ten years ago he admitted his responsibilities and began to collaborate with the justice system , revealing unsolved crimes, buried corpses, dirty deals between weapons, drugs and corruption in Northern Italy.

In the first months of his collaboration, Belnome wrote a dense diary in which he told, through the eyes of a young man who grew up in the heart of Lombardy, the real daily life of a boss of the 'Ndrangheta: money, power and luxury, of course, but also the blind obedience to higher orders, the obtuse pervasiveness of 'Ndrangheta rites and hierarchies, the constant danger of betrayals and double games, which end up ruining your existence and making you “lose your freedom”. The diary therefore appeals to young Lombard people not to give in to the sirens of a criminal organization that promises easy money, but ends up taking possession of every aspect of your life, even private.

Ten years after the start of the collaboration, Antonino Belnome comes to terms with his past in the documentary The Godfather and the Writer , made by Marco Tagliabue for the transmission "Stories" of the Swiss public TV Rsi La1 , broadcast tonight, Sunday 11 April, at 20.40. His testimony is collected by the writer Camillo Costa , engaged in writing a book about him. The coordinator of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate Alessandra Dolci , the Ticino public prosecutor Paolo Bernasconi and the witness of justice Gaetano Saffioti will present the work in the studio.


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