Ilda Boccassini

"(During the commemoration of Falcone in the main hall of the Palace of Justice in Milan}} You killed Giovanni Falcone. With your indifference. With your criticism... You slandered him. You distrusted him. And now some of you even have the nerve to attend his funeral..."

"Two months ago, I was in Palermo at an ANM meeting. I will never forget that day. The kindest words, especially from the left, from Md, were these: Falcone sold himself to political power. w:it:Mario Almerighi called him a political enemy. Now, I say that it is one thing to criticize the Superprosecutor's Office. It is quite another, as the CSM, intellectuals, and the so-called anti-Mafia front have done, to say that Giovanni was no longer free from political power. Giovanni was prevented from conducting mafia trials in his own city. So he chose the only possible path, the Ministry of Justice, to ensure that his project would be realized: a unified structure against the mafia. And it was a revolution."

"I can distinguish between right and wrong. In this, I am presumptuous."

"There has been misuse of telephone wiretapping by the judiciary, namely by public prosecutors' offices at the national level."

"Saying that the 'ndrangheta has logistical bases in Lombardy is not a new discovery. It could and should have been said twenty years ago. There are reports by some courageous and far-sighted police officers that seem prophetic. A 1983 report from the Vigevano police station already contained all the information. The police commissioner had understood the mafia system and organization long before our investigations. But the judiciary at the time did not understand those ideas, which were clearly revolutionary for the time. And so, from 1983 to today, a mafia family has been able to grow and increase its criminal capacity."

"[...] the Gomorra series warns us against evil, pushes us against a wall, gives us no excuses (after all, there is the good cop, the anti-Mafia prosecutor, the anti-Mafia priests, etc.), and forces us to look inside ourselves. Saviano (and the authors who wrote the screenplay with him) understood that only by starting from absolute evil, from the absence of good, can the authentic motive for renewal arise. He invites us to look with eyes free from preconceptions and false hypocrisy, namely that the reality of the south, of Naples, of Secondigliano, of Scampia... is also that represented by Gomorra. Urban decay does not originate from the series, it pre-exists. We have been accustomed to seeing the hairstyles of Genny and the other young characters for years, not only in the neighborhoods and districts of Scampia, but also in the North, in America, as well as the actors' clothing: Gomorra reproduces reality, far from any risk of emulation. Depicting evil does not mean smearing the south. On the contrary, the spirit of the series is precisely that, I repeat, to depict evil in all its facets in order to achieve renewal. [...]That's why I'm on the side of Gomorra, which investigates evil in order to overcome it. I am grateful to Saviano for trying, and I am grateful to Stefano Sollima (and the other directors) and the actors who have taken on an immense responsibility and done so with awareness and talent. All of them have shown courage that cannot be taken for granted: they have brought evil to the stage and left it up to us to decide where good lies."

"(About the Silvio Berlusconi prostitution trial) Absurdly, in this situation, the non-EU minor [Ruby] – a person who, I repeat, is intelligent and cunning, with that particular “Eastern” cunning of her origins – exploits, manages to exploit her non-EU status."

"There is a magistrate, a charming red-haired woman who was a friend of Giovanni Falcone, who after the attacks in Capaci and Via D'Amelio went to Sicily and had the perpetrators of the two massacres arrested: Ilda Boccassini. A tenacious woman who stops at nothing, she has a single goal: to ensure that justice prevails, as Judge Falcone did in Palermo in the maxi trial against the Mafia."