{"id":47243,"date":"2022-05-05T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T10:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/he-fought-for-5-decades-against-the-sicilian-mafia-who-is-the-photojournalist-leticia-batalja\/"},"modified":"2022-05-05T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T10:17:30","slug":"he-fought-for-5-decades-against-the-sicilian-mafia-who-is-the-photojournalist-leticia-batalja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/he-fought-for-5-decades-against-the-sicilian-mafia-who-is-the-photojournalist-leticia-batalja\/","title":{"rendered":"He fought for 5 decades against the Sicilian mafia, who is the photojournalist Leticia Batalja"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the Italian photographer Leticia Batalja died on April 13, the biggest shock to those of us who wrote about her was that she did not die murdered by the mafia. For almost 5 decades she fought fearlessly against this criminal organization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

E <\/span>“<\/span>ARMED<\/span>\u201d<\/span> with <\/span>her camera <\/span>35 mm, she published <\/span>n<\/span>e<\/span> media <\/span>terror<\/span>n<\/span> e<\/span> mafia<\/span>e<\/span>s siciliane<\/span>n<\/span>e<\/span>p<\/span>e<\/span>rmit<\/span> picture<\/span>widower <\/span>t<\/span>e<\/span> its troops <\/span>massacred <\/span>from bullets <\/span>q<\/span>e<\/span> ip<\/span>e<\/span>rkis<\/span>n<\/span>in<\/span>public servants, innocent passers-by and mobsters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later <\/span>Batalja u engua s<\/span>of local politicians and activists<\/span>,<\/span> for her <\/span>missing em control<\/span>or<\/span>tribe of <\/span>streets and squares of Palermo.<\/span> it <\/span>won<\/span> more<\/span>e<\/span> What<\/span>mime <\/span>intErnAtionAl<\/span>e<\/span> ABOUT <\/span>her activity as a photojournalist n<\/span>e<\/span> Sicily<\/span>p<\/span>e<\/span>rmes <\/span>imaging<\/span>widower<\/span> that captured beauty, poverty, the soul<\/span>,<\/span> AND<\/span> perhaps the most famous, island violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her first years working as a photojournalist in <\/span>t<\/span>e<\/span> daily<\/span>n<\/span> e<\/span> Palermos, L<\/span>‘<\/span>Hour, trans<\/span>uan<\/span> with the first mafia killings of public figures in the 1970s<\/span>, <\/span>AND<\/span> with<\/span> years of World War II <\/span>t<\/span>e<\/span>mafia <\/span>in the 1980s.<\/span> The struggle for power and profits <\/span>illegal<\/span>,<\/span> confronted the rural clan of <\/span>K<\/span>orleone<\/span>s<\/span>led by Salvatore Rina, against major clans operating in Palermo, the capital of <\/span>region t<\/span>e<\/span> Sicily.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tall <\/span>HIM <\/span>conflict, shooting with <\/span>arm<\/span>e<\/span> automatic <\/span>and explosions of <\/span>auto<\/span>bombs became common in Palermo and cities<\/span>cemetery<\/span> peripheral.<\/span> Politicians in Rome <\/span>reacted <\/span>by <\/span>appointed as prefect of <\/span>ri t<\/span>e<\/span> Palermo <\/span>Gen.<\/span>n<\/span> K<\/span>arlo Alberto Dala <\/span>K<\/span>ie<\/span>Mr.<\/span>a.<\/span><\/p>\n

But only 4 months <\/span>m<\/span>e<\/span> by<\/span>e<\/span>Dala <\/span>K<\/span>ie<\/span>Mr.<\/span>a, his wife, Emanuela <\/span>K<\/span>arraro and bodyguard Domeni<\/span>k<\/span>o Russo u <\/span>killed<\/span>in one <\/span>attempted attack <\/span>on September 3, 1982. <\/span>Murder of <\/span>deriving <\/span>K<\/span>ie<\/span>Mr.<\/span>e<\/span>s<\/span>together with <\/span>Fr.<\/span>e<\/span> t<\/span>e<\/span> police chiefs, prosecutors and investigators, i <\/span>b<\/span>e<\/span>n<\/span>e<\/span> honest citizens to feel hopeless and abandoned.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were days<\/span>e<\/span> when <\/span>Batal<\/span>Here<\/span> d<\/span>uhej<\/span> to rush <\/span>t<\/span>e<\/span> go <\/span>by a<\/span>new<\/span> city \u200b\u200bto another<\/span>,<\/span> to photograph some bodies <\/span>of people t<\/span>e<\/span> killed<\/span>e<\/span>:<\/span>mobsters, judges, police<\/span>e<\/span>politics<\/span>an<\/span>e<\/span> and journalists. <\/span>Mafia killings became so common<\/span>,<\/span> about 600 only <\/span>tall <\/span>years 1981<\/span>–<\/span>1983<\/span>,<\/span> so that she <\/span>q<\/span>e<\/span>round up <\/span>sometimes accidentally on stage<\/span>e<\/span>n<\/span> of crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such was the case <\/span>and photos <\/span>s<\/span>of the famous corpse of Piersanti Matarel<\/span>e<\/span>s<\/span>, former president of the Region of Sicily. January 6, 1980, <\/span>she was <\/span>riding in the car <\/span>s<\/span>e<\/span> ba<\/span>sh<\/span>by me<\/span> the daughter of <\/span>her and colleague<\/span> her<\/span> photojournalist Fran<\/span>k<\/span>o Ze<\/span>k<\/span>in, <\/span>when <\/span>without a small group of people who <\/span>were mbl<\/span>e<\/span>dhur <\/span>about a car.<\/span><\/p>\n

it <\/span>e <\/span>fired spontaneously<\/span> its apparatus<\/span> from the car window, catching <\/span>the moment when <\/span>Ser<\/span>jo <\/span>Matarel<\/span>or<\/span>the current president<\/span> of<\/span> Italy, <\/span>yes <\/span>tent<\/span>nte<\/span> to help his brother, <\/span>q<\/span>e <\/span>just <\/span>was shot in one <\/span>attempted attack<\/span>.<\/span> picture<\/span>realized by <\/span>Batal<\/span>Here<\/span> ABOUT<\/span> violence<\/span>ne mafi<\/span>e<\/span>s<\/span>were published regularly on the front page of <\/span>“<\/span>L<\/span>‘O<\/span>ra<\/span>\u201d<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

it <\/span>exposed them a lot<\/span>e<\/span> of them <\/span>n<\/span>e<\/span> forms<\/span>to<\/span> m<\/span>e<\/span> t<\/span>e<\/span> m<\/span>e<\/span>dha n<\/span>e<\/span> exhibitions <\/span>q<\/span>e<\/span> organized together<\/span>e<\/span>with Zekin <\/span>in central Palermo and schools<\/span> e zon<\/span>e<\/span>s<\/span>.<\/span> N<\/span>e<\/span> k<\/span>e<\/span>t<\/span>e<\/span> m<\/span>e<\/span>nyr<\/span>e<\/span>it forced people to face what <\/span>e <\/span>had denied:<\/span>q<\/span>e<\/span> the mafia existed and <\/span>q<\/span>e<\/span> she killed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, most like<\/span>What<\/span>the Illyrians were <\/span>n<\/span>e<\/span> fact <\/span>aware of the influence of the criminal organization. they<\/span> e dinin se<\/span> public parks <\/span>were n<\/span>e<\/span>n control of <\/span>smuggler<\/span>e<\/span>ve t<\/span>e<\/span> drugs. About 80<\/span>p<\/span>e<\/span>r sed<\/span> of businesses <\/span>n<\/span>\u00eb Palermo<\/span>,<\/span> of<\/span> paid regularly<\/span> mafia<\/span>e<\/span>widower<\/span> a<\/span>e<\/span> fine<\/span>e<\/span>,<\/span> to protect businesses <\/span>Theirs<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the images of <\/span>massacres q<\/span>e<\/span> had caught up with her camera <\/span>Batal<\/span>j<\/span>or<\/span>,<\/span>made it impossible to continue closing the eyes<\/span>. on <\/span>gradually<\/span> W<\/span>e<\/span>rat nis<\/span>e<\/span>nt<\/span>e<\/span> diff<\/span>ns<\/span>.<\/span> Starting from <\/span>1983, a group of prosecutors and police officers <\/span>t<\/span>e<\/span> pakomprom<\/span>ented<\/span>,<\/span> began to arrest <\/span>more<\/span>e<\/span>members of the mafia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over 450 of them <\/span>came out n<\/span>e<\/span> t<\/span>e<\/span> famous <\/span>S<\/span>uper-<\/span>court<\/span> q<\/span>e<\/span> started in<\/span> YEAR<\/span> 1986.<\/span> Strengthening trust t<\/span>e<\/span> the public <\/span>to<\/span> system<\/span> of<\/span> justice, <\/span>brought between the years <\/span>1985-1990 <\/span>a social, cultural and political revolution. People <\/span>e zakonsh<\/span>e<\/span>m<\/span>but also <\/span>new city council members began t<\/span>or<\/span> challenge<\/span> OPEN<\/span> mafia<\/span>e<\/span>n.<\/span><\/p>\n

it <\/span>periu<\/span>d<\/span>h<\/span>e<\/span> u <\/span>became known as <\/span>“<\/span>Spring of Palermo<\/span>\u201d<\/span>,<\/span> and Batal<\/span>j<\/span>was one <\/span>by the protagonist<\/span>s<\/span>October<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1985, she was elected a member of the council<\/span> MUNICIPAL<\/span>. Together with the mayor, Leolu<\/span>k<\/span>in Orlando, Batal<\/span>j<\/span>did it work to stop <\/span>control of <\/span>Palermo from the mafia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mafia leaders<\/span>es<\/span> and their political allies<\/span>,<\/span> had left <\/span>intentionally <\/span>schools, historic palaces and kindergartens <\/span>q<\/span>e<\/span> to be destroyed, on purpose<\/span> the collapse of <\/span>neighborhood<\/span>widower<\/span> downtown and<\/span> building <\/span>aty t<\/span>e<\/span> pallateve t<\/span>e<\/span> r<\/span>e<\/span>Here<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Batal<\/span>j<\/span>or <\/span>was convinced that <\/span>offering i <\/span>ACCESS <\/span>free <\/span>p<\/span>e<\/span>r<\/span> all citizens<\/span>t<\/span> in the gardens<\/span>t<\/span>parks, beaches<\/span>t<\/span>and places<\/span>t<\/span> historic<\/span>,<\/span> was essential to creating a culture <\/span>t<\/span>e<\/span> Respect<\/span>t<\/span> and evaluation<\/span>t<\/span> for Palermo and its heritage. Through her projects to make Palermo more beautiful and <\/span>m<\/span>e<\/span> to live<\/span>e<\/span>shme, Batal<\/span>j<\/span>a rifitoi <\/span>block after block <\/span>controlled spaces <\/span>m<\/span>e<\/span> EARLY <\/span>by the mafia.<\/span><\/p>\n

She worked with other city council members in <\/span>nisma t<\/span>e<\/span> such <\/span>like<\/span> removal of <\/span>abandoned cars, creating a <\/span>pedestrians <\/span>downtown and<\/span> p<\/span>e<\/span>r<\/span> reconstruction of <\/span>public gardens.<\/span> In the street<\/span>t<\/span> and squares<\/span>t<\/span> e<\/span> controlled by the bosses of <\/span>mafia<\/span>where <\/span>CHILD<\/span>e<\/span> ALSO <\/span>a look <\/span>or <\/span>wrong word can <\/span>bring <\/span>a<\/span>e<\/span> violent revenge, the actions of Batal<\/span>jas<\/span> challenged directly<\/span> Mafia<\/span>and gained widespread support<\/span>e<\/span> t<\/span>e<\/span> PUbLIC<\/span>ut<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Journalist Antonio Ro<\/span>k<\/span>u<\/span>c<\/span>o <\/span>worked often <\/span>me Batal<\/span>January<\/span>. He remembered how she went<\/span>nte <\/span>IN<\/span> a<\/span>e<\/span> neighborhood and shout<\/span>s<\/span>t<\/span>e<\/span>: \u201cI know who you are<\/span>ni<\/span>. <\/span>benches <\/span>do not belong to you. Those <\/span>u<\/span> belong to everyone. If you do not return them within an hour, I will t<\/span>‘iu<\/span> rr<\/span>e<\/span>noj<\/span>! \u201d.<\/span> An hour later, the benches were <\/span>rikthyen s<\/span>e<\/span>rish n<\/span>e<\/span>park<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

during the<\/span>e<\/span> YEARS <\/span>1992<\/span>–<\/span>1993, a series <\/span>attacks me <\/span>bombs took the lives of judges <\/span>Giovanni <\/span>forgive<\/span>k<\/span>one, <\/span>a<\/span>e<\/span> from <\/span>architect<\/span>e<\/span>t<\/span> and Sup<\/span>e<\/span>r-trial<\/span>; Fran<\/span>What<\/span>es<\/span>k<\/span>a Morvilo<\/span>s<\/span>prosecutor in court <\/span>e P<\/span>alermos and his wife; and Paolo Borselino<\/span>s<\/span>, <\/span>q<\/span>e<\/span> HAD <\/span>together<\/span>e<\/span>worked closely with Fal<\/span>k<\/span>one<\/span>n<\/span> and had investigated his murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

together<\/span>e<\/span> m<\/span>e<\/span> to lose<\/span>e<\/span>n jet<\/span>e<\/span>nt<\/span>rupees and passers-by in Sicily, Rome, Milan and Florence.<\/span><\/p>\n

with <\/span>ato sulme<\/span>known as <\/span>\u201cS<\/span>t<\/span>massacre strategy<\/span>\u201d<\/span>mafia sulmoi simbolet <\/span>e<\/span> justice, government, finance and culture. The purpose of <\/span>its <\/span>was to scare<\/span>to<\/span> politicians<\/span>,<\/span> that t<\/span>‘i<\/span> weakened laws against organized crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

But those acts <\/span>cause<\/span>uan<\/span> even more public feedback<\/span>,<\/span> AND <\/span>mafia <\/span>nisi t<\/span>e<\/span> kal<\/span>oj<\/span>e<\/span> in illegality and top<\/span>nte<\/span> silently its diverse criminal activities. This change marked a<\/span>distancing <\/span>from <\/span>attacks <\/span>SPECTACULAR<\/span> me bom<\/span>b<\/span>or<\/span>assassinations and shootings on city streets.<\/span> But <\/span>the mafia threat still remains. <\/span>Tani v<\/span>iktimat e <\/span>its <\/span>p<\/span>e<\/span>s<\/span>o<\/span>Joh<\/span>e<\/span> Fr.<\/span>e<\/span> q<\/span>e <\/span>called <\/span>“Lupara bianca”<\/span>pra <\/span>BODIES<\/span>t<\/span> e<\/span> their <\/span>burn or shp<\/span>e<\/span>rb<\/span>e<\/span>hen n<\/span>e<\/span> acid. \/ <\/span>“<\/span>The Conversation \u201d- Bota.al<\/span><\/p>\n

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