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Lavialibera is a bimonthly magazine that offers news and insights on mafias, corruption, the environment, and migration. Lavialibera was founded in 2019 by two Italian associations, Libera and Gruppo Abele, both created by don Luigi Ciotti, and it inherits the thirty-year experience of the monthly magazine Narcomafie, founded in 1993 after the mafia massacres in Sicily. 

Lavialibera is a partner of Kompreno, the European startup that wants to make quality journalism accessible by removing language barriers.

Evicted after losing his job, Giovanni lived with his family in a car and then in a cellar. A few months ago he got a house thanks to a project by the Piergiorgio Frassati cooperative developed on the housing first model

Europe wants to erase homelessness. Housing First can be the key

Europe wants to end homelessness by 2030, but there are still 1,287,000 individuals without a home. Some cities have adopted programs based on the Housing First model to end extreme poverty. In our cross-border investigation, we traveled through …

Andrea Giambartolomei

Andrea GiambartolomeiRedattore lavialibera

Vilija Ramanauskienė

Vilija RamanauskienėGiornalista di FM99

From crime to community: the social reuse of confiscated assets in Italy, Spain and Romania

From crime to community: the social reuse of confiscated assets in Italy, Spain and Romania

In recent years, many European States have adopted regulations allowing the transfer of properties coming from illicit activities to civil society organizations and local authorities for social purposes. Yet, bureaucratic and economic obstacles …

Natalie Sclippa

Natalie SclippaRedattrice lavialibera

Paolo Valenti

Paolo ValentiRedattore lavialibera

The Italian Minister Matteo Salvini (Photo by Umberto Battaglia)

The public prosecutors asked for 6 years in prison for Matteo Salvini in the Open Arms case

For the Palermo Public Prosecutor's Office, former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini allegedly 'bent the interpretation of regulations to his political vision of migratory phenomena', preventing the disembarkation of 147 people rescued by the Spanish …

Rome, September 4. Some representatives of Italians without citizenship after having filed the referendum question in the Supreme Court

In Italy, a referendum for citizenship: if politics doesn't take care of it, the citizens will

Various associations, including Gruppo Abele and Libera, together with some parties, have filed a referendum question with the Supreme Court of Cassation that aims to reduce the period of uninterrupted legal residence in Italy to 5 years (from 10) …

Toni Castellano

Toni CastellanoRedattore lavialibera

From left, Andrea Beretta and Antonio Bellocco, during a match between Inter and Milan ultras the night before the killing

The murder of a FC Inter "ultras" has revealed the links between the mafia and hooligans in Milan

Andrea Beretta, one of the leaders of the Curva Nord 1969 of Inter, has killed Antonio Bellocco, member of a family of 'ndrangheta. Before the killing, Beretta had been under special surveillance for his violent attitude

Andrea Giambartolomei

Andrea GiambartolomeiRedattore lavialibera

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