(12 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Rome, Italy – 21 March 2024
1.Young people taking part in a march organized by anti-mafia group Libera, holding sign reading “The Mafia kills and so does silence” as they march past the Colosseum
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Mesagne, Italy – 20 May 2024
2. Road sign reading "Mesagne"
3.Various of people sitting in the center of Mesagne
5. Rosanna Picoco, a volunteer for Libera, standing at the entrance to Libera shop
6. Products in the Libera shop
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Rosanna Picoco, a volunteer for Libera
“These are some of the products that are made, and cultivated on properties that have been confiscated from the Mafia.”
7. Wine bottles with labels reading "Emmedielle", "Antò" and "Renata Fonte"
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Rosanna Picoco
"Here we are in the historic center of Mesagne, the first capital of culture in Puglia, the Italian Capital of Culture. And this is the Libera Terra workshop which is part of a network of stores, but not only stores, precisely for social justice, to promote what is cultivated and produced on assets confiscated from the mafia.”
9. Traditional Pugliese tarallini
10. Bottles of olive oil
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Rosanna Picoco
"For years, Mesagne was the capital of the Sacra Corona Unita, the mafia of the south of Puglia, of Salento and in recent years, through a path, a process of enhancement and regeneration of the city, has managed to restore new life and new meaning even to places that were once impossible for the citizens of the community of Mesagne to live in."
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Borgno Egnazia, Italy – 22 May 2024
12. Various of olive tree grove
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Lecce, Italy – 22 May 2024
14. Carabinieri military police standing outside Lecce prison courtroom entrance
14. Prosecutor Carmen Ruggiero enters into prison courtroom escorted by three men
16. Carabinieri military police officer
17. Defendants on screen connected from prisons
18. Prosecutor Carmen Ruggiero talking
19. Salvatore Lezzi, a lawyer representing Libera and Libera activist Valeria D’Amici
20. Courtroom
21. Lawyers leaving hearing
23. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Salvatore Lezzi, lawyer for Libera
“Why we are in the trial? That is what I said: for the guarantee, the protection, in short, of the values that have been offended by these crimes. They need to be protected in some way during in the trial. And associations and institutions can do that and therefore Libera decided, and this is the first time that it happens in the reality of the Brindisi territory, that Libera would become a civil party in the case."
24. Guard outside the prison
25. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Salvatore Lezzi, lawyer for Libera
“Therefore also to present a clear strategy of combating the mafia power that, after many years, is trying to reorganize itself because our territory has seen some rather heavy realities over the years."
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Porto Selvaggio Natural Park, Italy – 21 May 2024
26. Coastline with forests and tower
27. Sabrina Matrangola, daughter of Renata Fonte and Libera activist
29. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sabrina Matrangola, daughter of Renata Fonte and Libera activist
"Organized crime is still organized, in the sense that it enjoys a certain consensus in Italy and as long as there is this consensus, as long as not everyone chooses the right side, and someone will not be willing to rolling up their sleeves to help, these places will always be in danger.”
30. Sign with photo of Renata Fonte, Sabrina’s mother, who was assassinated
31. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sabrina Matrangola daughter of Renata Fonte and Libera activist
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