The philosophical crime writer: 'You must have empathy, even for the worst criminals'

Former mafia prosecutor Gianrico Carofiglio writes books to show the real Italy, not the one populated by the strutting spiv-suited mafiosi of the moviesThere was a time when it wouldn’t be safe to be sitting at a table with Gianrico Carofiglio. A time when he would not be out in the open like this. A time when, for five years, he travelled by armoured car, escorted by many heavily armed bodyguards. When his every move was planned with military precision.There’s not a lot of personal freedom when you are an anti-mafia judge. In some ways Carofiglio was as caged as the men he was putting into prison. There were plots against him, one involving a bazooka. There was the haunting precedent of the murders of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino – two judges who had fought the Sicilian mafia and were killed when their cars were blown up in 1992. Continue reading…
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