Learning from the Mafia means learning to be silent
by Andreas Rossmann, FAZ
An investigative journalist is bullied and abandoned by Der Freitag, a German weekly journal: the case of Petra Reski.
Petra Reski.
The Italian journalist Alberto Spampinato once said that "everyone who writes about the Mafia does it at their own risk."
He is from Sicily and he knows what he is talking about: The topic has been an obsession for him ever since 1972, when his then 25-year-old brother Giovanni, a correspondent of Palermo’s L’Ora, was murdered by the Cosa Nostra. His book about his brother, a first-person account, was published in 2009. In 2008, when he was working…
