“Contra – Against all mafias” is born, the association aimed at spreading the culture of legality, to protect witnesses of justice and those who have said ‘no’ to organized crime, to counteract the phenomena of violation of the law, the ‘abusive exercise of public and private activities and violation of civil rights of citizens.
President of the Valeria Grasso association, entrepreneur from Palermo who was a witness to justice who imprisoned leading exponents of the Sicilian Madonia clan, under guard for about 10 years, regional manager of the anti-racket, anti-usury department and for the entire sector of confiscated assets in the Region Sicily, awarded ‘Legality Woman 2022’ at the Campidoglio. Vice-President Ambrogio Crespi, director of numerous documentary films against the mafia and for social issues, always at the forefront of actions to combat organized crime and in defense of legality. Vice-President Benedetto Zoccola, also a witness of justice under guard for about ten years who, thanks to his complaints, arrested, among many, members of the La Torre Clan in Mondragone, awarded the Special “Sense of Duty” at the Piersanti Mattarella Literary and Journalistic Award in the Capitol.
“The association was born from the need to assist and support people who rebel against a mafia and criminal system – said Valeria Grasso – together with Ambrogio Crespi and Benedetto Zoccola we wanted to create this reality which will be present throughout the national territory for collect and welcome, through our listening desks, the needs of men and women who feel they belong to the State”.
“Bureaucracy, which should be eliminated in certain circumstances, does not know the weight and value of courage, and so our association wants to help politics and the new government work towards a common goal, defeating crime and safeguarding the lives of those who decides to be in the forefront with the State to which he has always believed and entrusted his life”, concludes President Grasso.
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