Mafia, Gratteri: "Riina was stupid and 'Ndrangheta took advantage of it"
January 20, 2023 | 15.29
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The prosecutor of Catanzaro: "While Cosa Nostra was waging the stupid war against the state with massacres, the Calabrian clans became leaders in the importation of cocaine into Europe"

" Riina was an idiot . He was an idiot, he wasn't intelligent. He was just violent . To be a boss you don't have to be violent, you have to be intelligent". This was stated by the prosecutor of Catanzaro Nicola Gratteri, speaking in the Senate at the Sala Caduti of Nassirya at the presentation of the portal 'Scelgo la vita'. And while Cosa Nostra waged, with the massacres, the "stupid war against the State" it was the 'Ndrangheta who took advantage of it , to the point, he recalled, that today "it is the leader in the importation of cocaine in Europe".

The prosecutor then urged Justice Minister Nordio to intervene on prison overcrowding . "There are thousands of kids who are detained because of their drug addiction . What do we want them to do in there? Let's try to get them to go to a therapeutic community - advocated the magistrate -. An inmate in prison costs 200 euros while in a therapeutic community 50 to 80 euros So let's keep these kids in the therapeutic community: out of four, two or three they will make it... And we even save money! These are the things that Nordio should discuss, not leave the overcrowding. Will some escape? Maybe, we'll get them back. It's a risk. But it's not that we don't do things because one can risk running away…”, he added.