's answer to Benny Massimo Ciancimino Calasanz
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Written by Massimo Ciancimino
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 18:09
Dear Benny,
answer only now to your letter with the sincere hope of providing answers to all your legitimate concerns and all understand your uncertainty. Sorry for the delay in answering you but this time I deliberately chose to take some 'time to reflect and better understand what was happening to me. The
esteem to you leads me to write this letter and to "break" I assure you that this silence was not dictated by opportunism but by a desire to understand. Where to start? First I begin by honestly say it was wrong. I was wrong and I do not try to mitigating that my mistakes are and remain serious and for which I accept, as always, the full responsibility as it is right and proper. I was wrong, especially because I acted carelessly underestimating my "special condition" that makes me, in spite of myself, "different" from others. I do not have room for mistakes. But I am only a man and in me there is nothing heroic, there is nothing "extraordinary", I live in the doubts, fears, uncertainties, errors with which every human being is confronted daily . I wish it were
also granted me the right to fail me as I was given the opportunity to explain the cause of my mistakes without all that concerns me is always being manipulated and transformed into something else, something that certainly is not mine. I can tell you, Benny, with absolute certainty that it never had any kind of direct or indirect relationship with the criminal organization called the 'Ndrangheta. No one will ever prove otherwise. I have met in Verona, a person (Jerome Strange) I had been presented earlier by my accountant and which I knew absolutely that he had ties to organized crime. My work took me to meet this person and not, as has been said and written, to recycle the will of the alleged wealth of my father. Work in the sale of metals and this is an area where often there is a need to obtain bank loans or similar facilities which, to me, given my particular situation, are not granted. This is precisely the reason why I, with my accountant, I went to Verona, which, in order to obtain funding necessary to carry out my work.
I repeat, Benny, I was wrong. I was certainly superficial in dealing with this situation and I have overlooked many aspects of my personal story which instead should always stay well clear in my mind but I assure you that the truth lies not even in the outstanding interception published by the press. Interceptions published "ticking" on the magazines and that, according to which, it was finally possible to find the treasure of my father but, on the contrary, it was decided to make public, ending it with a prosecutor's investigation of Reggio Calabria, again as reported by the newspapers, well underway. Instead of waiting for the result it was decided to use everything to delegitimize my statements, to undermine my credibility, to reduce me to silence. In those
days, among the many declarations of intent on famous people against me, I have heard the words of the Minister of Justice Alfano, who, at the Congress of Rimini, congratulated the "attentive public prosecutor" that, finally, was about to shed light "on the character Ciancimino. They created in me deep bitterness similar words spoken by a minister who wants to abolish the use of wiretaps, and even publishing them but changed its position when the latter can only be used to attack and delegitimize. Bitterness and despair. These are the feelings that I tried to hear the charges against those judges who, free from bias and with an attitude layman, are listening to me for about two years in order to shed light on the many tragic events of our recent past that still await justice.
These two years were very difficult and, although I imagined that my path would have been long and uphill, I assure you I did not expect all this "attention" by the media, all this "noise" generated by my book, the serious and continuing acts of intimidation, the need for escort for me and for my family. A difficult, yes, but, as you know, I just got too deep satisfaction as a call from Salvatore Borsellino, certainly, for me, the greatest achievement given my origins and the estimation of many common people and professionals such as estimated Sandro Ruotolo and Michele Santoro.
As you demonstrated confidence in me and I greatly appreciated because I know it has cost you a lot. It is this confidence that I would not miss. I wish you had expected the outcome of the work of the Judiciary before clearing the way done and has seen as a key step in the interview you made and you mention in your letter.
I assure you that it is my clear and precise will be to respond to my errors in the appropriate fora, as I have never tried or wanted to get "discounts" of any type. As reassured that he never intentionally made statements "libelous" against third parties in order precisely to engage people in serious incidents while sapendoli innocent. All this is very, very far from the target that I set myself the day I decided to start collaborating with the Judiciary. The goal was never sure what to "pierce" the TV and newspapers but to restore dignity to my family name and to give my son the opportunity to be proud, in short, to make him a feeling that I was always denied . I'm not looking for excuses
nor mitigating Benny, I just wish that my error was judged for what it is, in fact an error and not exaggerated and turned into a tool to discredit my contribution to the search for truth. A way as many in this delicate moment, to devalue the valuable work of judges and prosecutors, a means to obstruct and prevent us from moving forward. Perhaps this is asking too much? Maybe for someone like me, are seen as an enemy to be defeated by a good part of those institutions and the press towards which, however, would be important to have confidence because it is from them that should rise to the hope of us all.
Massimo Ciancimino
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