Luciano Violante

Luciano Violante ( born September 25, 1941 in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia ) is an Italian politician of the Partito Democratico and judges.

Life

Violante studied law at the University of Bari and was after studying judges. As a high school teacher, he taught from 1970 at the University of Turin and later at the University of Camerino. From 1977 to 1979 he was employed in the Italian Ministry of Justice, where he fought against the terrorism. In 1979 he joined the Communist Party of Italy and moved to its resolution 1991 Democratic Party of the Sinistra (PDS ). Violante was a member of the anti-Mafia Commission, which was commissioned by the Italian Parliament. From September 1992 to March 1994 he was its president. Before him, said among other things the mafioso Tommaso Buscetta. In the 12th legislative period 1992-1994 Violante was a Vice President, dated 10 May 1996 to 31 May 2001, he was the successor of Irene Pivetti President of the Camera dei deputati, to which he belonged as a deputy from 1979 to 2008.

As an author he has written several books on the structures of the Italian Mafia and their judicial combat in Italy.

Works (selection)

  • La mafia dell'eroina, Editori Riuniti, 1987
  • I Corleonesi, l' Unità, 1993
  • Il Piccone e la Quercia, Edizioni Associate, 1992
  • Non è la piovra, Einaudi, 1995
  • Cantata per i bambini morti di mafia, Bollati Boringhieri, poem, 1995
  • Dizionario delle Istituzioni e dei diritti del cittadino, Editori Riuniti, 1996
  • Mafie e antimafia - Rapporto 1996;
  • Mafia e società italiana - Rapporto 1997
  • I soldi della mafia - Rapporto 1998 Laterza.
  • L' Italia dopo il 1999. La sfida per la stabilità, Mondadori 1998
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