"The negotiations are also a state of necessity for our ruling classes who, instead of waging war on organised crime to defeat it, tell you, ‘What, are you mad? They’ll start shooting again.” And it matters little that we have 350,000 armed men who could defeat the Camorra, ‘Ndrangheta and Mafia, which together have a maximum of 40,000 men. And so even today, the Italian system for combating organised crime consists solely of striking a deal."
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