What is going on today and what Italian politicians and journalists seems to hide or even deny, was said even 1983 by an Italian journalist, Giuseppe Fava.

On Guardian Unlimited you could read this about the italian mafia:

"Italy's mafias earn more than the country's biggest corporation, according to a report by the national retailers' association.

According to the latest Fortune 500 list of the world's biggest corporations, Italy's largest company by sales is the oil and gas giant ENI. In the first half of this year, it had a turnover equivalent to €83bn. The retailers' federation Confesercenti put the earnings of organised crime in Italy at €90bn (£63bn)."

Look what Giuseppe Fava told us 1983: 

"And so here you are with the banks, this proliferation of new banks. General Dalla Chiesa understood. This was his great intuition, that led to his death. You need to look hard inside the banks: there there are tens of billions covered with blood that come out cleansed by the banks to arrive at public works. It is said that many churches have been constructed with the bloody money of the mafia… I have seen many State funerals. Now I’ll say something that only I myself am convinced of, so it could be not true: but very often the assassins were on the stage of the authorities… My opinion is that everything starts with the absence of the State and the failure of the Italian political society. Perhaps we need to create a second Republic in Italy, that has laws, democratic structures that eliminate the danger that the politician can become under the domination of himself, of his greed, of the ferociousness of the others, of the fear or that he can just become a professional of politics. Everything starts from there. From the collapse of the politicians and of politics."

The intuition of Giuseppe Fava and among others, his antimafia fight in "Giornale di Sicilia" and "I Siciliani", led him to his death 5th January 1984, killed by the mafia.

Today several Italians are fighting against corrupted  and investigated politicians like e.g. the Minister of Justice, Clemente Mastella. But the Italian mafia seems to control the Italian Parliament. Italians seems to be in need of a second Republic…

The whole interview translated into English is to be found on www.beppegrillo.it.