“If the youth refuses their consent, even the almighty Mafia will vanish like a nightmare”.
Paolo Borsellino
History of the Movement
“Ammazzateci Tutti” born as an anti-’ndrangheta spontaneous initiative of young people in Locri (RC) in late 2005, after the murder of the Vice-President of the Regional Council of Calabria, Francesco Fortugno.
In the beginning the movement consisted only in young people (mainly high school and university students), in the following months from its establishment it found the support even among the adults, specifically the family members of Ndrangheta victims.
Thanks to the network and internet, soon the movement managed to gather the youth from the whole country. Soon the movement through the network and the Internet has managed to unify youth from all over Italy behind the slogan of “youth against all mafias!” Which has united and still continues to unite the youth into a single cry as a large anti-mafia movement on national scale with the best Italian youth in the fight against the Mafia and in promoting legality; from Sicily, Campania, Lombardy, Lazio, to Puglia, the Veneto, the coordinators of the movement are today established throughout the entire territory of Italy.
Our most significant activities and initiatives undertaken until today
The first public appearance of the embryo of the movement was made in Locri on the 19th October, 2005. During the funerals of Francesco Fortugno, a group of seven boys exposed the now famous banner of challenge against the Mafia “And now, kill us all!” conceived and designed by Aldo Pecora. Although the youngsters participating in the events of rebellion, came from all parts of the Reggio Calabria province, they officially were renamed by the media as “the youngsters of Locri”.
Briefly later in Locri, on the 4th November 2005, the largest popular demonstration was held and it was attended by over 15,000 people, the spontaneously newly formed “Ammazzateci Tutti” played a key role in organizing the event by putting online the website www.ammazzatecitutti.org which in one weeks networking managed to register more than 200.000 contacts.
Since March 2006, the Movement is promoting a bill (lying in the Parliament since 1992).
The strength of this bill, whose article consists of three simple willing ; the prohibition of electioneering for whom is undergoing special surveillance measures. In fact, according to the thesis of this proposal it is unthinkable that in Italy the mafia might lose the right of passive or active voting but can nevertheless affect electoral outcomes by sponsoring candidates of its choice. The bill requires, that ones proved that there is a compromise between the elected candidate and the Mafia, the immediate decay of the elected office of the latter.
On the 24th March 2006, the Movement convenes a public meeting at Palazzo Nieddu del Rio, in Locri, where it invites all candidates in the general election to sign a pact of honor for the support of the bill in case of election to Parliament. Over 50 candidates sign this commitment.
Since that day, after the public sponsorship made by the youngsters of the movement, more than 150 deputies and 50 senators both from the majority as from the opposition, have signed this bill.
On the 2nd June 2006, the movement organized a “presidium of legality” with over 500 people at the restaurant “Al Valantain” in Santa Trada of Villa San Giovanni, which was forced to close after countless attacks, attempted extortions and death threats, and whose owners The family Mazza were forced to emigrate abroad in order to rebuild their lives.
On the 9th August, 2006, in Campo Calabro the movement promote and organize a public event for the fifteenth anniversary from the murder of the Deputy Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, Antonino Scopelliti.
On the 11th November 2006, the youngsters of the Movement are among the promoters and founders of a new organization of associations, movements, expressions of the world of cooperatives, schools, University, Church, and entrepreneurship, the “Rete per la Calabria” (“Network for Calabria“), presented at a conference held at Reggio Calabria on the 5th January, 2007, with the participation of various Calabrian personalities among the speakers.
“Mafia: permission denied!”
On the 17th February, 2006, “Ammazzateci Tutti” convoked and self-organized in Reggio Calabria “ Mafia: permission denied “, taking to the streets over 5.000 youngsters from all over the “boot”(Italy). The event, referring to the words of Judge Paolo Borsellino ( “If the youth refuse their consent, even the almighty and mysterious Mafia will vanish like a nightmare”), saw the participation of family members of victims of the ‘Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra together with mothers of children victims of “Lupara Bianca” ( a missing person (killed), without leaving a single trace) The day was invested by the High Patronage of the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano.
On the 30th May 2007, “Ammazzateci Tutti” acquired legal personality, submitting a formal request in a civil trial against the alleged instigators and executors of the crime Fortugno. The movement is the only organization “non-institutional” to have made this instance, together with the Region of Calabria, the Province of Reggio Calabria and the town of Locri.
The national meeting “Legalitàlia”
On the 9-11 August 2007, at the sixteenth anniversary from the murder of the Judge Antonino Scopelliti, “Ammazzateci Tutti” together with the “Antonino Scopelliti Foundation” promoted and organized in Reggio Calabria “Legalitàlia”, the first national meeting of young anti-Mafia, hosting a Reggio Calabria an audience of nearly 300 young delegates from associations and youth movements some of the greatest Italian and Italian Mafia experts, including journalists, lawyers and social workers.
The second edition of the meeting was held in Reggio Calabria on the 8-10 August 2008.
The third edition of the meeting (Reggio Calabria, 9-10 August 2009) saw the participation of important international guests, such as the Consul General of the United States Patrick Truhn.
Other important initiatives
Among the many initiatives promoted and organized by “Ammazzateci Tutti” most notable are those in memory of the Judge Giovanni Falcone, organized every year on 23rd of May in various Italian regions and “Regional days of legality “, promoted on a national scale thanks to the coordination of regional and provincial movements.
“Ammazzateci Tutti” today
Currently the Movement is, except supporting in every possible way witnesses of justice, like Pino Masciari, promoting a number of legislative actions in the fighting against organized crime, such as the acceleration of Mafia trials, constantly risking prescription.
Today “Ammazzateci Tutti” is a national anti-Mafia movement with peripheral coordination in Calabria, Sicily, Lazio, Lombardy, Veneto and Puglia.
The national coordination of the movement is led by Rosanna Scopelliti, daughter of the magistrate Antonino Scopelliti.
President and national spokesman of the movement is Aldo Pecora, already the author of the slogan “E adesso ammazzateci tutti!” (And now, kill us all!).
