Conceived by Claudio Camarca in collaboration with the Carabinieri, the second season focuses on the gray areas of Milan, Genoa, Catania and Reggio Calabria
The other side of Gomorrah, other than superheroes of crime, «here we tell the losers of society». The appointment is at 4.30 in the morning at the Vigentino dei Carabinieri station, south of Milan. About ten cars, about forty men to carry out five restrictive measures, “five targets”, five convicted for crimes ranging from drug dealing to possession of weapons. Division of tasks, assignment of files, coordinated intervention in different areas of the city set for six in the morning. The Captain warns: «I recommend: firmness, resoluteness, timeliness. And then a sense of humanity, there will be children, avoid the handcuffs in front of them“. Women and men who lead this life, every day, an “ordinary” life that is not newsworthy. One exception is Outposts – Dispatches from the border, the four-episode docu-series that will air in early 2022 previewing Discovery + (and then Nine). Designed by Claudio Camarca (former author of Shopping Capital e The Squadron, director, documentary maker and reporter in five war theaters) and created by Stand By Me in collaboration with the Arma dei Carabinieri, this second season focuses on the gray areas of Milan, Genoa, Catania and Reggio Calabria. The cameras tell from an unprecedented point of view the daily life of the Carabinieri stations dealing with drug dealing, arms trafficking, clandestine races, violence, thefts and robberies.
“There are areas in our cities where the rules of civil society don’t seem to exist, they struggle to assert themselves. They are gray areas governed by different laws and codes – explains Camarca -. In these places, realms of narco-mafias and petty crime, the Carabinieri are the only representatives of the rule of law ”. They operate there, between civil society and the extreme margin of social disintegration. Places where the carabinieri are seen at the same time as a figure of repression and a bulwark of solidarity for the excluded.
Camarca rejects fictional narration, the fascination of Evil, where the deeds of those who commit crimes are looked at with heartfelt eyes: “This is meant to be an educational program, the intent is to show unknown realities and thanks to the Carabinieri we have access to places that otherwise we would not be able to see; you really enter the social fabric of all of Italy, not just the showcase one. Outposts wants to offer a vision of who are the guardians of order, of the work they do for dedication and spirit, certainly not for wages of 1400/1800 euros per month ». The examples. Here we come to fiction: «The problem is that the Camorra, the ‘Ndranghetisti they call their children after the stars of Gomorrah or Romanzo Criminale. A lot of guys see the show and think: that’s cool. But I ask myself questions, if these products are appreciated by the Camorra there is something wrong. I think it is the duty of an intellectual to ask himself: why tell the beauty of the Camorra? In this way you enter the imagination of many young people by proposing wrong models. We, on the other hand, by filming the operations against crime live, we show – with a right dose of adrenaline – the truth, we tell the misery of the criminals, we bring to light their unfortunate lives ».
Camarca has been working on these issues for years, but unlike what one might think at a first reading, has “left” ideas: «Telling the heroism of the Carabinieri helps to foster a healthy nationalism, linked to one’s land and its laws. Not doing it means leave the field open to the right and sovereignism».
August 7, 2021 (change August 8, 2021 | 14:45)
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