Around me, the same consensus that I felt for Mussolini – Andrea Camilleri

Huffington Post: Andrea Camilleri, the father of Montalbano, launches an alarm: “Around me, the same consensus that I felt for Mussolini”

“I have no regrets for the past, but this is really a bad step in Italian history that I fear is unmatched by other periods”. This is what the writer Andrea Camilleri says in an interview with Repubblica , where he defines today’s Italy as “a country that comes back, like the crayfish.” It’s as if he started to proceed in the opposite direction, losing the important social conquests he had achieved In the past, if I have to be honest, I no longer recognize Italians.”

And speaking of the positions of the Minister of the Interior and League leader, Matteo Salvini:

“I do not want to make comparisons – observes Camilleri – but around the extremist positions of Salvini I feel the same consensus that at twelve years, in 1937, I felt around Mussolini And it’s a bad consensus because it brings to light the worst side of Italians, what we have always hidden “. Which? “First of all racism, we have sheltered behind the stereotypical image of ‘Italians good people’, but it has not always been this way, especially in East Africa, I prefer to fly over it, but I still remember the writings that welcomed me Turin in the sixties when I went to work in the Rai headquarters: ‘We do not rent houses in the south’. “

“One of my biggest penalties is this: at ninety-three, one step from death, I find myself leaving a nephew and great-grandchildren an Italy that I did not expect to leave as an inheritance.My politicians were called De Gasperi, Togliatti, Nenni, Sforza.They had a precise concept of the State and of what could be done in the country.We have rebuilt Italy, now we are reshaping it.For this reason I feel I have failed as an Italian citizen, and it weighs heavily “, concludes Camilleri.