Amine Kessaci: “Marsella Should Look in the Mirror of Palermo or Mexico” / “in France We Can Learn a Lot From Italy’s Anti-Mafia Struggle”

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The great battles, especially those fought against the silence of threats, need symbols to win them. Italy discovered it in the 1990s, when the Cosa Nostra or the Camorra defied the state and some people of civil society decided not to shut up, even if it cost them their lives, like the journalist Peppino Impastato. Or freedom, like the writer Roberto Saviano. For years, France has also faced a new and increasingly violent and powerful phenomeno…