Di Bella looked at the boy’s file – already swollen with charge sheets – and felt a familiar sense of hopelessness. In court, the boy displayed the characteristics Di Bella had seen so many times in young people from mafia families. Di Bella, now 60, with neat hair and rimless glasses, is soft-spoken, quick to laugh, occasionally self-effacing. View image in fullscreen ‘The psychological indoctrination begins in infancy’: Judge Roberto Di Bella, who started the scheme to rescue mafia children. Newspaper columnists pronounced that taking children away from their parents, whatever the circumstances, was the work of a totalitarian regime.

Source: The Guardian June 22, 2024 21:20 UTC