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  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_573...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_572...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_569...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_567...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_568...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_573...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_573...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_572...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_570...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_569...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_568...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_570...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_563...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_561...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_558...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_566...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_564...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_563...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_562...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_558...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_565...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_565...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_564...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_561...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_559...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2021: Marika Iorio (15), posese for a portrait in Scampia, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2021.  She intends to stay in school, graduate, and become a psychologist. But she was struggling to follow school online and failing her classes. “I am scared I might not make it,” she said.<br />
<br />
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Italy had among the highest dropout rates in the European Union. But over the last year it has kept its schools at least in part closed about three times longer than France, and more than Spain or Germany and just about all other member states, severing a lifeline for some of the most challenged children and fueling fears of an education crisis.<br />
<br />
Experts argued that by at least partially closing its schools for 35 weeks, Italy, already lagging behind the rest of Europe in key educational indicators and hoping for a strong post-pandemic recovery, had threatened its long term prospects. The country with Europe’s oldest population has risked leaving behind its youth, which is its greatest and rarest resource.<br />
<br />
While it is too early for reliable statistics, teachers, principals, advocates and social workers say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of students falling out of the system. Even those who stayed in are clearly falling behind.<br />
<br />
The problem is especially acute around the southern city of Naples. Schools here have remained closed longer than the rest of the country, in part because the president of the wider Campania region, Vincenzo De Luca, insisted they were a potential source of infection. At one point, he mocked the notion that children in his region were “crying to go to school.” Between September and January, high school students in Naples only physically went to school for 27 days, according to the humanitarian organization Save the Children, a national low. In Naples, the dropout rate is about 20 percent, twice the European average and in the city’s outskirts i
    CIPG_20210414_NYT_Italy-Dropouts_A73...jpg
  • CASAMICCIOLA TERME, ITALY - 30 NOVEMBER 2022: Psychologists spend time and make drawings with children who experienced the landslide that hit Casamicciola Terme, a port town on the southern Italian island of Ischia, Italy, on November 30th 2022.<br />
<br />
Torrential rains on Saturday November 26th sent a powerful landslide plowing through Casamicciola Terme, killing eight residents — including a newborn baby and two small children — and washing away houses and burying streets. This week, rescue workers and volunteers continued to dig for survivors and to unearth the town from under thick rivers of mud.
    CIPG_20221130_NYT-Ischia-Landslide_A...jpg
  • CASAMICCIOLA TERME, ITALY - 30 NOVEMBER 2022: Psychologists spend time and make drawings with children who experienced the landslide that hit Casamicciola Terme, a port town on the southern Italian island of Ischia, Italy, on November 30th 2022.<br />
<br />
Torrential rains on Saturday November 26th sent a powerful landslide plowing through Casamicciola Terme, killing eight residents — including a newborn baby and two small children — and washing away houses and burying streets. This week, rescue workers and volunteers continued to dig for survivors and to unearth the town from under thick rivers of mud.
    CIPG_20221130_NYT-Ischia-Landslide_A...jpg
  • CASAMICCIOLA TERME, ITALY - 30 NOVEMBER 2022: Psychologists spend time and make drawings with children who experienced the landslide that hit Casamicciola Terme, a port town on the southern Italian island of Ischia, Italy, on November 30th 2022.<br />
<br />
Torrential rains on Saturday November 26th sent a powerful landslide plowing through Casamicciola Terme, killing eight residents — including a newborn baby and two small children — and washing away houses and burying streets. This week, rescue workers and volunteers continued to dig for survivors and to unearth the town from under thick rivers of mud.
    CIPG_20221130_NYT-Ischia-Landslide_A...jpg