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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