Disregard for Human Life in Tuscany
Lucca, Tuscany
How low can you go? How about ‘adjusting’ the toxic emissions of an incinerator plant? No, surely this could not happen.
Well, it did down near Pietrasanta not far from picturesque Lucca in Italy.
The fiddle came from the very top and has probably led to increased levels of cancer and other health related anomalies in the area. Read more
A Fallen Angel
Giuliano Tavaroli, who is, as I mentioned in my ‘The Pirelli and Telecom Italia Mafia Godfather‘ post, the man lifting the lid on complex corruption scandal being revealed in Italy at this very moment. Well, Tavaroli used to be one of the late General Dalla Chiesa’s main men.
General Dalla Chiesa, for those who don’t know, was the man behind investigations into Italy’s red brigades terrorist groups back in 1970s Italy. Subsequently, the good general turned his attention to Italy’s age old mafia problem. Alas, this honourable gentleman must have got rather too close for comfort to certain people, and Della Chiesa was gunned down in a mafia arranged ambush in Palermo way back in 1982. Read more
The Pirelli and Telecom Italia Mafia Godfather
Scandal hit Italy is walloped by yet another expose. If this were a Hollywood blockbuster, then the cast would be veritably star studded.
Criminal Conspiracy
In italy, a charge which is often levelled at those allegedly involved in mafia type operations is ‘associazione per delinquere’ - ‘criminal conspiracy’ in English. Now it just so happens that one of Italy’s big industrialists, Marco Tronchetti Provera, appears to be on the verge of facing such charges.
As I mentioned in my ‘An Unhealthy Italian Brand‘ post on the subject of just how the mafia is viewed within Italian culture, mafias come in all shapes, sizes and forms. Mr Tronchetti Provera’s apparent contribution to the mafia genre, from the scandal that is emerging in Italy, was a highly convoluted conspiracy with tentacles which reached out in many directions, and entangled more than a few big names, and well known organisations. Tronchetti Provera, it appears, even added a dash of cyber crime, thus dispelling, to an extent seeing as the guy appears to have been caught, my recent assertion that Italians are not really that good at using the internet and technology. Read more
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