It was early months of 1999 when we wrote faxes to a number of IOC members telling them that Turin 2006 official documents hadn't ever mentioned or spoken about a solid MAFIA presence in the Upper Susa Valley (i.e. in Bardonecchia 2006 host city candidate)
Something had obviously occurred with these faxes,  as just a few days later the Turin Town Council 2006 Special Commission was angrily discussing about this, with some of the members trying to forbid a Nolympics! statement in the Commission.

Why?
Why couldn't it be said the truth?
Didn't Turin 2006 Bid Committe know that in 1998 the Antimafia Commission, a Parliamentary structure, had spoken about great risks of MAFIA contamination for the 2006 dockyards?

Well, last week the Antimafia Commission happened to be again in Turin and Bardonecchia, and nothing in their official statements has changed: there's a high risk of criminal infiltration, moret than all inside the olympic sub-contracts.

"The organized criminality has existed and continues to be present in the Susa Valley" (Mr. Lumia, Antimafia's president on "La Repubblica" 18th January 2001).

We're not talking about a generalized criminal habitat, but it has to be considered that MAFIA exists. 

A couple of days later, also a group of penal judges fromTurin declared this is reality, not lies and not fantasy or fiction as somebody tries to depict it: "It's by this time demonstrated that irregularities in the (Bardonecchia) town council have occurred, and that a mafia association exists". (Mr. Maddalena, Criminal judge on  "La Repubblica" 21th January 2001).