An area that needs to be monitored, "and my presence here means the state is paying attention." The president of the parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission, Nicola Morra, travels to Avellino and meets with the public prosecutor Rosario Cantelmo after a series of attacks, including those targeting local administrators, as well as businessmen and politicians. Regarding the reported incidents—from the barrage of shots fired at several cars belonging to a family, to the bomb in a business owner's SUV, and the beating of a councilor—Morra outlines the scenario, which investigators in Avellino already have quite clear. "Without going into specifics," he says, "these are primarily omissions that allow someone, who doesn't behave in accordance with democratic rules, to gain power and influence within local communities and within society." Criminal infiltration, according to the president of the Anti-Mafia Commission, who believes the coordinating body is not just "a repressive institution, or at most one that helps Parliament legislate on anti-mafia matters. We must also think of the Commission," he concludes, "as an educational and communication vanguard to make people understand that the primary emergency throughout the country is a mafia-related criminal emergency."
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