Chiamatela pure giustizia (se vi pare)

For more than seven years he headed the busiest and most heated Public Prosecutor’s Office in Italy. He directed some of the most sensitive investigations in the history of the Second Republic: Calciopoli, the inquiry into the P4, into the bunga bunga and the escorts at Palazzo Grazioli, as well as the waste emergency and the phantom land reclamations in Campania, the contracts at the Naples City Council and the huge civil disability benefit frauds, to name just a few. He is Giovandomenico Lepore, Public Prosecutor of the Neapolitan capital from October 2004 to December 2011, the man who tamed the Scampia feud and brought to justice Antonio Iovine, Michele Zagaria and the brothers Pasquale and Salvatore Russo, four of the most dangerous camorra bosses, fugitives for decades. In a long interview he tackles the thorniest and most controversial questions of justice in Italy, sparing no criticism and polemical broadsides against an inefficient and self-referential political class. And then the Naples chapter, halfway between memories and current events: the rise of Cutolo and the poisons of the Terra dei fuochi; politics converting to the word of the camorra and the difficult legacy of the post-Cordova era. An account without omissions or censorship, which casts an entirely new light on a cross-section of the history of our country