The literary events of the festival «The Meetings of Value» founded and conducted by the manager Nicola Ruocco, in Pompeii, are heading towards the conclusive beats of its excellent fifth edition, started last October. At the location of the Habita79 hotel, on Tuesday 20 at 8:00 pm, the protagonist of the now famous literary salon will be the anti-mafia magistrate Catello Maresca, with his brand new book 'The State always wins', a book that also competes to support Unica, the National Italian Union of Anti-Mafia Culture.
'The State Always Wins... I Know' is the phrase that Michele Zagaria told me on the morning of December 7, 2011, when we captured him after over 16 years on the run - says Catello Maresca in the postscript - He had escaped the Police Forces of all Italy who were looking for him spasmodically and he was hiding practically at his home, in his town in Casapesenna, in the province of Caserta. And every day of his fugitive life, he had won that battle against the State, showing his affiliates his power. Then we arrived and we took him, putting an end to his arrogance and his elusiveness.
'The fifth edition of the Meetings of Value was something exceptional, and while waiting for the new date of the maestro Maurizio de Giovanni, to whom I renew my most affectionate greetings, I could only conclude the month of February with a new extraordinary guest.' comments Nicola Ruocco 'The culture of legality', as an absolute and primary theme, emerges as a strong value to support, preserve and spread especially among young people, and in this the magistrate Maresca sets an extraordinary example and dissemination. To him and his staff my most affectionate thanks for accepting the invitation to the festival' concludes Ruocco 'The next sixth edition is almost ready, and will open the program from the month of April, and it will be something to say the least surprising!'.