Meet The Sicilians Breaking The Mafia’s Code Of Silence

Don't Mention the Mafia: Lifting the lid on Sicily's mafia. A report by SBS Dateline.
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In Sicily 80% of businesses still pay 'protection money' to the Mafia. Sicilians are battling to break this culture, yet in this report on the island's anti-mafia fight, not everything is as it seems.
"Where else in the world does a pastry chef go to work with a police escort?" asks Alessandro Marsicano with a wry smile. His life changed when he refused to pay the mafia's 'pizzo' - or protection money. He now lives apart from his wife and children, and runs his cafe under police protection. "The mafia is more powerful than ever", says photographer Letizia Battaglia, who documented the Cosa Nostra's bloodiest years. "It's in politics, the judiciary, the police..." she says. Almost a third of Italian youth can't find work and it's that poverty which the mafia exploits, with promises of money. But the most famous anti-mafia journalist is still at the front of the fight. Chain-smoking and foul-mouthed, Pino Maniaci commands an army of volunteers at his station Telejato. "A mafioso has to be spat on, despised and marginalised!", he says with trademark passion. But has he been completely honest in all that he reports?
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[@Bulletguy07]

Five years since this was posted. I'd like to think the pastry chef guy is still with us as he was a genuine good guy with head and heart in the right place.

[@lb8141]

My beloved grandmother Ida was Sicilian. She was a very strong, beautiful and powerful woman. They truly are a different breed of people. They never forget or forgive any wrong doing.

[@AussieSeeder]

My parents are from Sicily and they told me that the no snitch policy “omertà” started 1000 years ago after being oppressed by Normans, Spaniards, French and Germans. It started because they couldn’t trust the authorities ruling over Sicily at any given time. Crimes were usually sorted out by local chieftains. My Grandma said she never heard the word mafia till the Americans came during WWII

[@walkermorgan1710]

Journeymen pictures is so good!!!!! beyond underrated. Always gives a concise look at the issues without over dramatizing or resorting to flashy techniques. I wish they didn't put peoples tweets on there but alas seems to be the way of the world.

[@mariorico440]

I feel sorry for those honest business owners that they have to pay taxes to the government and extortion money to the mafia. That is a lots of money to pay.

[@gemstarstation]

Just when I thought I was out. They pulled me back in!

[@artyvandelayed]

Great journalism, great production.

[@montasiraelhameed4055]

great report

[@ChildofLight777]

Excellent reporting of current events.

[@didacusalvieri]

I served as a bodyguard for 4 years, the moment i saw that man in the back I new he was protecting something. 9-28-20

[@jackdawkins9562]

Corruption is all around us.

[@terencehayes9840]

Great video

[@Sharon-vs8go]

As a mafia myself it's not good

[@jordanforbes2557]

The scary thing is the photograoher is probably right. The amount of occurption that goes on in governments that is so well hidden theae days is unbelievable. I remember just over 10 years ago living in Montreal and hearing that many powerful members of the local government had connections in the form of business dealings with the Mafia in Montreal. And what about Berlusconi's connection to the mafia.

[@anthonyluisi7096]

The Sicilian Mafia is like the tentacles of an octopus ...

[@rogergrant9605]

Some of these comments are stupid and dumb.Your vacation experience and the experience of those who live there is a completely different thing.

[@MH-iq6eo]

It's been four years, let's hope that baker is still fighting the good fight.

[@KingJoshuaTheGreat]

Whys the thumbnail guy looking like Will Ferrel

[@djbigbenny]

At

[@aweewa5659]

Exotic stories of the mafia. I love to hear about everything.