Giovanni Falcone put it in writing in one of his memorable intuitions: to fight the mafia you have to follow the trail of the money. To understand what is really happening in Sardinia, in absolute silence, with the powers of Rome increasingly prone to the Italian and international energy lobbies, it is necessary to refer to the maxim of the anti-mafia judge: to find the money you have to follow the wind, the furious one that beats on the Nuraghi Island, from north to south, from the sea to the mountains.
The traces of the wind
The risk, in following the voluminous traces of state money and the never sober whirlwind of air, is that of running into the most dangerous vortex of organized crime, the one capable of insinuating itself into the ganglia of white-collar renewable energy. The map of the assault on Sardinia is much more than a chessboard of business and power, of political, financial and many other relations, which are not always clear and transparent. There are gray areas, companies registered in tax havens, Chinese boxes and intertwining that in the past have made the veins of the wrists tremble.
The energy boss
There are the "red light" relationships between the boss of the bosses, that eternal fugitive boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, and subjects who have raged in Sardinia and who continue to do so in disguise. All involved in the golden vortex of wind turbines, from Palermo to Southern Sardinia, passing through the wind farms seized in the north of the island and attributed to the "Eolo" circuit, the windy holding of the fugitive leader, Totò's heir in chief Riina, Provenzano and even the former Mayor of Palermo Vito Ciancimino. It was the Aeolus operation, led by the Palermo Anti-Mafia District Directorate, that laid bare the "mafia" operations also located in Sardinia, companies registered in northern Italy, but with strong ties in the two major islands, as if the business of the wind should be consumed first of all in the island regions.
Footprints on the Island
Facts and misdeeds linked to the first wind wave, the one that ten / fifteen years ago had upset entire portions of the island, from Meilogu to Campidano, passing through Logudoro and Cagliaritano. Now, what is taking place in Sardinia is a tenfold assault, planned by companies linked to powerful state apparatuses and beyond. One fact, in this scenario, is disturbing: some companies that have presented new projects, even included in the plan of the Pnrr procedures of the Draghi Government, have "connotations" attributable, in terms of names and companies, to those Antimafia investigations. In this story, however, two sudden episodes are candidates to undermine the gloom of this business. Both are revealed in these last days of July, the first in Rome, the second in Cagliari. The facts are mitigated by prudence and investigative precaution. In reality they, the protagonists, know what lies behind those two moves, all made on the threshold of the Augustan ardor.
