Roberto Saviano, der Autor der literarischen Abrechnung “Gomorrah” mit der Mafia bzw. Camorra wird von Mitgliedern ebendieser mit dem Tode bedroht.

Seit seinem mutigen Buch lebt er in einer Ausnahmesituation, steht unter ständigem Personenschutz und ist im Grunde ein Gefangener.
Die italienische Tageszeitung La Repubblica startet deswegen eine Unterschriftenaktion, mit der man sich für die Sicherheit Savianos einsetzen und die Repubblica dabei unterstützen kann, dem Staat und seinen Institutionen auf die Füße zu treten, damit der Kampf gegen die Mafia ernsthaft und mit mehr Anstrengungen geführt wird.

Die Repubblica schreibt selber:
“Sign for Roberto Saviano

Roberto Saviano is under death threats for denouncing the criminal deeds of the Camorra in his book Gomorra, translated and read all over the world. His freedom is under threat as well as his autonomy as a writer, his chances to meet his family, to enjoy a social life, to have part in the public life, to travel in his own country.
A young writer, guilty to have investigated the organized crime revealing its methods and its structure is forced to live an hidden, underground life, while the Camorra bosses send him death threats from their jails ordering him to stop writing for La Repubblica, his newspaper, and to keep silent. The State must do every effort to protect Saviano and to defeat the Camorra. But this is not a mere police case. It’s a problem of democracy. Saviano’s safe freedom concerns everyone of us as citizens.
Signing this appeal we intend to take charge of it, as a personal commitment, urging the State at the same time to take on its responsibility, because it’s intolerable that something like this could happen in Europe in 2008.”

Zur Unterschriftenaktion hierlang.

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