Luigi Ciotti

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Luigi Ciotti (born September 10, 1945 in Pieve di Cadore ), also known as Don Ciotti , is an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a prominent opponent of the Mafia . He is considered to be the "most famous" and "most endangered" clergyman in Italy. He lives in Turin.

Ciotti is the founder of the largest anti-mafia umbrella organization Libera Italy and the monthly magazine Narcomafie , which deals with organized crime in Italy.

Act

In 1965, Ciotti and friends founded the “Gruppo Abele” association with the aim of supporting young people who have become criminals and drug addicts. The Gruppo Abele was the first organization in Italy that also cared for people with HIV. After studying theology and being ordained a priest in 1972, he worked as a street priest ( prete di strada ) and was involved in socially disadvantaged areas. After several stays in southern Italy , Ciotti made the fight against the mafia his life.

In 1995 Ciotti founded the anti-mafia magazine Narcomafie and in the same year the anti-mafia organization Libera ("free"). Ciotti had the idea of ​​returning land and real estate that the Mafia had appropriated to civil society and handing it over to non-profit organizations. He still chairs the organization today as president. Libera is the umbrella organization of over 1,300 associations and citizens' groups that campaign against the Mafia throughout Italy. Ciotti and the organization collected more than a million signatures within a few months in 1995, thus launching the law on the definitive confiscation of Mafia goods. The law came into force a year later. As a result, several hundred hectares of property confiscated from Mafia members were transferred by the state to the organization . Libera runs farms on this land with former criminals, drug addicts, the unemployed and those who have dropped out of the Mafia. The projects were the target of attacks by the mafia several times.

In 2013, death threats by the Mafia against Ciotti became known, but they were initially not made public. Ciotti, who lives in Turin, has been under constant police protection since mid-2014. Around ten police officers monitor him around the clock, so he is more intensely protected than most Italian Mafia investigators.

Awards

For 2016 Ciotti was awarded the Mietek Pemper Prize of the University of Augsburg for reconciliation and international understanding .

Web links

Commons : Luigi Ciotti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ciotti's biography in the Enciclopedia Multimediale delle Scienze Filosofiche. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 21, 2014 ; Retrieved November 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.emsf.rai.it
  2. ↑ a b c Thomas Migge: Cappuccino by appointment only . In: Schwäbische Zeitung, November 22, 2014
  3. ↑ a b Julius Müller-Meiningen: Don Luigi Ciotti, the controversial Mafia hunter from the Vatican. Retrieved December 9, 2018 .
  4. ^ Don Luigi Ciotti: The mafia expropriator invites to Rome. Retrieved December 9, 2018 .
  5. ^ Don Luigi Ciotti: The mafia expropriator invites to Rome. Retrieved December 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Annette Langer : Death threats against anti-Mafia priests: "Ciotti, Ciotti, we can kill him". Spiegel Online, accessed November 24, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Klaus P. Prem: The taste of legality. University of Augsburg, press release from October 19, 2016 from Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on October 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ciotti, Luigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Don Ciotti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian priest and opponent of the Mafia
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Pieve di Cadore