The lesson was masterly. Etched forever in the annals of the fight against the mafia. The “slow pace” of Castel Gandolfo, summer residence of the Bishop of Rome, is reflected in the watery mirror of Lake Albano. A peaceful village chosen to study the war against the “bosses”, those who rage across half the world in the name of the gang of the moment.

Falcone's lecture

Not a spiritual “retreat” for robes devoted to sacrifice, but a closed-door symposium for Judges ready to crush in any way the universal network of the most brutal organized crime. June is just beginning. The year of our Lord is 1982. For three days, between the fourth and the sixth of the “month of the sun”, the anti-mafia magistrates meet there, in the papal hermitage, Giovanni Falcone, the number one in the “great” fight against “Cosa nostra”. The notes of the “lectio” are contained in a “secret” notebook: «Investigative techniques in matters of the mafia». The speaker is the Chief of Judges, the magistrate who has declared war on the “Boss of bosses”.

Follow the money

In those thirty-eight pages of rules, suggestions, examples and investigation models, which have always been the “Bible” of anti-mafia, there is a summary that has become the “Falcone model” over time: “ Follow the money and you will find the mafia ”. The controversial story of the Capaci massacre, from the perpetrators to the many instigators, is a common thread that inextricably links the lesson of Castel Gandolfo and the “remote-controlled” end of Giovanni Falcone. Forty-three years after that masterly “lectio”, in the land of the Nuraghi, mistakenly considered impenetrable by many, the alarm of mafia infiltration is raised by a Judge who has seen the mafia up close, not by chance he was among the students of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

Scalpel and boulder

The number one of the investigating magistrates of the Island, the Attorney General Luigi Patronaggio, uses words like a scalpel, he rations out statements with an eyedropper, but when it comes to reacting to the risk of the mafia on the Island of the sun and wind he doesn't think twice about showing off the lessons of the "masters". A real "anti-mafia" boulder placed right on the road to the billion-dollar business that risks overwhelming Sardinia with blows of rotating skyscrapers and endless expanses of silicon grids. Luigi Patronaggio, the "PG", doesn't beat around the bush: "Attention regarding investments in alternative energy in Sardinia is high, especially in relation to subcontracts, penetration roads, transport of materials, but also to investments, transparency of investments". Too many explicit and specific references to not imagine that the Island's Public Prosecutors have been working for some time to monitor and put under observation that tide of money, public, private and unknown, that is pouring into the Island, in the form of wind and photovoltaic deals. Patronaggio, however, uses words that, if "vivisected", make it clear that the investigators' microscope has its spotlight on the key passages of this maxi speculative operation. The first reference is to "subcontracts". This is the most "renowned" practice for transferring capital to the economic undergrowth, the one that does not have to appear explicitly, but which ends up managing with a "delegation", in many cases forced, work, increased in costs, without a plausible justification other than that of "environmental conditioning", not necessarily linked to "cosa nostra". Just go to the construction sites, around the Island, to notice a slew of companies or similar, all added in marker on the signs posted at the entrances, "passed off" as "subcontracting", but which hide workers arrived from the other side of the world, most of them foreigners, from Eastern countries, from North Africa and from the Iberian side. There are countless companies landed on the Island from "red areas", those where criminal organizations are rampant.

"Transport" case

It cannot be a coincidence, and certainly it is not, the reference of the Attorney General Patronaggio to the theme of " transport of materials". The loading of wind turbines from the Port of Oristano to Santu Miali, the construction site of the devastation of the Monte Linas landscape in Villacidro, cannot fail to be at the center of the attention of the Prosecutors, if only because those expired authorizations of those "bison" of the road, all coming from far away, are official acts, published in a de facto State ordinance.

Gone with the Wind

Added to this is the most disturbing fact, revealed in recent weeks by an investigation by the Unione Sarda, with the publication of the trial documents of "Gone with the Wind", a gigantic judicial operation that defeated an agreement between gangs to divide up the transport of wind turbines in Calabria. One of the companies involved in that judicial investigation, "Molisana Trasporti", with its "already" main contact, Riccardo Di Palma, is, in fact, the registered owner of the transport of those wind turbines from the Oristano port to the slopes of the "Paese d'Ombre". Added to this is a long list of anti-mafia "interdictions" registered in the documents filed with the Chambers of Commerce.

State stocks

Despite this mass of evidence, from the hot summer of last year to the winter of the new year, the vehicles, with expired permits, of the Molise company have traveled undisturbed on the roads of the Island, even escorted by an exorbitant unjustified deployment of the State. The words of Patronaggio, however, go further ending up putting under observation the mountain of Chinese boxes and the economic-financial phenomenon that is revolving around the great energy speculation: « The Finance is following this line together with the Prefecture with which we have signed a protocol in this sense precisely to draw attention to this phenomenon. There are very small companies, with decidedly negligible capital that obtain concessions and that presumably act on behalf of others. There the attention is high ». Matteo Messina Denaro, the late "Boss of bosses", after all, when he was still wandering the world at large, let slip the new mission of Cosa Nostra: «more money is made with wind power than with drug trafficking». Paraphrasing the lesson of Giovanni Falcone, from now on, to find the mafia, it will be necessary to "intercept" the money and the wind.

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