The Ten Steps

A small handbook of legality

Flavio Tranquillo - Mario Conte

Mafia, legality, society, information, money, duty. These and other terms are more and more a part of the media debate and of our everyday vocabulary, and to give a meaning to these words is a question of vital importance. For everyone, everyday. Doing this, with ten key terms that shape the way evoked by the title, is an unusual duo, made up of a judge from Palermo, Mario Conte, and a sports journalist from Milan, Flavio Tranquillo, the voice of Italian basketball.

Starting from a friendship cemented by a shared passion for sport and anti-mafia going far beyond the respective professional fields, the book took its cue from a trial, heard by judge Conti, in which appearing before the court were extortionists and abettors of Cosa Nostra, sentenced to indemnify also the numerous anti-racket associations springing up in Sicily. From procedural details, the discussion widens to include other worlds, beginning from law and information to arrive at daily life in a civilized society. The idea is to lay the foundations for an anti-mafia that involves everyone in the name of legality, a sense of duty and individual responsibility, with the conviction that involving everyone in the battle against this “weed” to be eradicated is the only way to take not only ten, but one hundred steps forward.