Anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano on Thursday presented at the Venice film fest a new TV series taken from his 2013 book on narco trafficking, Zero Zero Zero, and said cocaine should be legalised in order to beat the gangs who grow fat on it.
"Cocaine is the only material comparable to oil, the ease
with which it is sold has no equals," said Saviano, famous for
mafia exposè Gomorrah, and living under 24-hour protection from
the Neapolitan Camorra mafia.
Addressing a journalist, he said "If if gave you a baggie of
cocaine now you would sell it even before leaving the Palazzo
del Cinema, unlike for example a bag of diamonds.
"And why does cocaine reign? Because life is shit, it always
make you feel too ugly, too poor, too fat, it makes you work
more and more and in fact it is taken by construction workers,
taxi drivers, surgeons; cocaine activates you with the world
while heroine, by contrast, deactivates you. That's why it moves
the economy".
Zero Zero Zero, directed by Gomorra, Suburra and Romanzo
Criminale director Stefano Sollima, is produced by Cattleya and
Bartlebyfilm for Sky Studios, CANAL+ and Amazon Prime Video.
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