Antiracket
Ludovica Tortora de Falco
2013 - 52 min - HD - Couleur - France, Italie

Real institution in the South of Italy, the Pizzo is the expected protection money extorted by the Mafia from all storekeepers whose activities are located inside the Mafia-controlled boundaries.
For most people, the Pizzo looked as an unchangeable root of the Italian society: something against whom nothing nor nobody could fight.
Though, at the beginning of the 90ies, a little group of storekeepers from a Northern Sicily village founded an association keen on fighting against this injustice, this extortion, publicly: all together, united.
It was the very first time that simple citizens victims of the pizzo publicly revealed the identity of the racketeers, summoned in an Italian courtroom.
A revolt against this "pizzo culture" was beginning. Nowadays, around 70 “Antiracket” associations are active through Italy.