Roberto Saviano defends himself against Silvio Berlusconi

The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has accused the writer and journalist Roberto Saviano of "advertising for the Mafia" with his book Gomorrah. Saviano rejects the claim in a letter to the prime minister published in the weekly paper Die Zeit: "I believe that only the truth can give a country dignity. ... One thing is certain: Like many others I will continue to write. I will use the word as a tool to dissect, to improve the world, and to understand. I was born in a wonderful albeit depraved country, whose beauty nevertheless never stops giving me the strength to dream of another Italy. An Italy that can only change when the South changes. I swear to you, Mr Prime Minister, also in the name of all Italians who mourn the loss of those who have fallen in the fight against organised crime like their own dead: we will never fall silent. That I promise you. Loud and clear."

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