"Gomorrah" author warns of potential ISIS-mafia dealings

(AGI) Rome, May 9 - Though there isn't proof or certainty as of yet, there is a real risk that ISIS "might go into business with Italian organised crime", the author of "Gomorrah", Roberto Saviano, said on Monday. "What's certain is that ISIS is selling anything, anywhere. It's a business, it doesn't matter who you sell to," Saviano told AGI outside the press conference in Rome's Teatro dell'Opera for the presentation of the second season of the TV series "Gomorra". The series will begin airing Tuesday simultaneously on Sky Atlantic HD and Sky Cinema HD in Italy as well as four other European countries. Two of the new season's episode were previewed at the presentation. Saviano continued: "Contact can always occur, of an economic type - weapons, drugs." The Neapolitan writer and journalist also believes the heightened focus on terrorism from Italy's security and intelligence forces might end up favouring the mafia and other organised crime groups. "If on the one hand the stiffer stance makes it harder for crime in general, on the other hand the exclusive focus on terrorism gives free reign to the mafia, which becomes a secondary and far less urgent problem," he said. Saviano also underlined that in the past, when Italian terrorists acted in a context of widespread organised crime, they ultimately attracted police forces to those territories, resulting in a drop in illegality. He then cited a statement attributed to Italian crime boss Raffaele Cutolo - contained in Gio' Marazzo's book "Il camorrista" - in which he talks about a kidnapping by the Red Brigades in Naples: "They've come to start a revolution in my house", expressing the nuisance that such a 'presence' represented for organised crime and its business.. .