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By saying no to pizzo, he challenged the clans of the province of Foggia. He is the only entrepreneur who has been a civil party in the trials against the Foggia mafia. He is a witness of justice, the second in history and the only one left alive, because the first, Giovanni Panunzio, was killed in 1992. Lazzaro D’Auria, 55, originally from Campania but for 30 years in the Tavoliere delle Puglie, has started challenging clans four years ago. Since then he has risked his life. And that’s why the banks don’t want to give him more credit: because he could be killed overnight. «Out of six banks we worked with – reports Lazzaro – only one continued to do so spontaneously. Two did so at the invitation of the prefect, the other three more than halved funding, from 9 million to 3.7 million. In practice, the witness of justice is treated as a tax evader or a client with precedents ». And this puts his company, 30 million in turnover, at risk, forced to finance itself in order to move forward: in agriculture, first you sow and then you reap, first you invest and then you collect, “we have ten months of investments only and then we start to earn, this is our financial flow ».
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