Oil produced on confiscated soils of mafia, lands in London

The oil produced by the young of the community for the rehabilitation of drug addicts led by father Salvatore Lo Bue, reaches England. A success arriving after six-year-work on the lands confiscated to the Mafia from Castelvetrano, in the province of Trapani (Sicily). Next week this oil is going to be exhibited on a stand of a food and agricolture workshop in London. “More than 20 years ago I founded the first community for drug-addicts, and I began this adventure-as father Lo Bue tells - first at Bagheria then at Castelverano we were given the lands belonging to mafia-chiefs as Bernardo Provenzano and Matteo Messina Denaro, so we produced the first oil, called Libera (free)”. “The bottles-in Lo Bue’s words-are not as symbols of a victory, but as a neverending battle against hostility and indifference. Ten young people and four peasants work on these confiscated lands. Thanks to the allocated public funds, an- oil mill was built,too. “We have been growing about 5.000 olive-trees-Lo Bue adds - that will probably produce 25.000 bottles to be bought in the supermarkets as Coop and in the shops for equum and solidal trade. The income will be used to pay these young people and to cancel some debts. Now we are ready to launch our product in the market of London. It’s a great success for our young -Lo Bue concludes- they are protagonists and not only of their life. It is the symbol of Sicily, a region that is changing”.