Britain is most corrupt country on Earth, says Mafia expert Roberto Saviano
黑手党专家罗伯特·萨维亚诺称英国是世上最腐败的国家
He has spent more than a decade exposing the murderous criminal underworld of the Italian Mafia, but journalist Roberto Saviano believes that Britain is the most corrupt country in the world.
罗伯特·萨维亚诺花了十余年的时间去披露意大利黑手党谋杀犯罪的地下世界，但是他认为英国才是世上最腐败的国家。
The author of international bestsellers Gomorra and ZeroZeroZero, has lived under police protection since publically denouncing members of the Camorra, a powerful Neopolitan organised crime syndicate, in 2006.
国际最佳畅销书《格莫拉》与《零零零》的作者在警方的保护下得以幸存，因为于2006年公开地谴责克莫拉的成员——一个强大的尼奥波莉丹罪犯组织。
On Saturday he made a rare historic appearance at the Hay Literary Festival flanked by several security guards.
本周六，在几位安全员的保护下，萨诺维亚罕见的现身海伊文学节的现场。
He warned the audience in Hay-on-Wye that financial institutions were allowing ‘criminal capitalism’ to thrive through offshore holdings. And he warned that a vote to leave the European Union would leave Britain even more exposed to the organised crime.
他警告在海伊小镇的听众们，金融机构正姑息“罪犯资本主义者”肆意占有离岸股份。他还警告说选择离开欧盟将会让英国更多的暴露在有组织的犯罪中。
“If I asked you what is the most corrupt place on Earth you might tell me well it’s Afghanistan, maybe Greece, Nigeria, the South of Italy and I will tell you it’s the UK,” he said.
他说，“如果我问你，你能告诉我世上哪里是最腐败的吗？你可能会说是阿富汗，也可能是希腊，尼加拉，意大利的南部，而我会告诉你其实是英国。”
“It’s not the bureaucracy, it’s not the police, it’s not the politics but what is corrupt is the financial capital. 90 per cent of the owners of capital in London have their headquarters offshore.
腐败的不是官僚主义，不是警察，不是政治而是金融资本。伦敦有百分之九十的资产所有者都在海外设有他们的总部。
“Jersey and the Cayman’s are the access gates to criminal capital in Europe and the UK is the country that allows it. That is why it is important why it is so crucial for me to be here today and to talk to you because I want to tell you , this is about you, this is about your life, this is about your government.
泽西岛与开曼群岛都是通往欧洲的罪犯资产大门，英国对此十分“开明”，放任自由。这就是为何今天我在此与你谈论如此重大的事情了。因为我想要告诉你，这关系到你，这关系到你的生活，这还关系到你的政府。
“Leaving the EU means allowing this to take place. It means allowing the Qatari societies, the Mexican cartels, the Russia Mafia to gain even more power and HSBC has paid £2 billion Euros in fines to the US government, because it confessed that it had laundered money coming from the cartels and the Iranian companies. We have proof, we have evidence.”
“离开欧盟，意味着纵容犯罪资产。这就让卡特尔社会、墨西哥企业联合、俄罗斯黑手党得到更多的权力，HSBC（汇丰银行）已经向美国政府支付了20亿欧元的罚金，因为它承认曾为卡特尔（国际垄断集团）和伊朗的企业洗钱。我们有证据能证明。”
Saviano first started writing about organised crime in Italy in the early 2000s following the death of his local priest who had written an essay criticising the dealings of the Camorra.
那不勒斯当地神父写了一篇指责克莫拉内幕交易的文章，而他死后，也就是21世纪早些时候，萨维亚诺就首次开始报导关于意大利的团伙犯罪。
After publishing Gomorra, a non-fiction novel which named members of the clan and exposed its business connections and criminal activity, his life was threatened and a plot put in place to eliminate him and his police escort with a bomb.
作为一部非虚构的小说，作者在《格莫拉》一书中对这个庞大的帮派成员进行了命名，而且毫不掩饰的将商业联系和犯罪活动联系在一起，该书出版之后，作者的生命受到威胁，有人密谋要用一枚炸弹杀了他和护送他的警察。
The death threats led to a public outcry from fellow writers, including six nobel laureates including Desmond Tutu, Mikhail Gorbachev and Orphan Pamuk, who warned the Camorra were becoming a threat against security and public order.
死亡的威胁引起了包括了德斯蒙德﹒图图，米哈依尔﹒戈尔巴乔夫和奥尔罕﹒帕慕克等在内的六名诺贝尔文学奖获得者的联名公开抗议，以警告人们克莫拉将威胁社会和公共秩序。
Signatures were also collected on the web site of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica calling for the government to protect him.
意大利共和国报（La Repubblica）甚至还在网站上征集签名以要求政府保护他。
Saviano said: “I was 26 years old when I got myself into this situation and I could not imagine that it would end like this because many books have been written on the Mafia, but it was my book that made them so angry.
萨维亚诺说道：“当我将自己置身于此境地时，也不过26岁，我不能想象一切就像这样结束，只因为在众多描写黑手党的书中，只有我的这本书让他们如此生气。”
“I was telling real facts, I was naming names. My life is unique. I am followed by two bullet proofed cars and by more than five officers and that brings about a feeling of guilt sometimes because you exposed yourself too much, you were not cautious enough.
“我是在讲述一个真实的故事，我甚至指名道姓 。我的一生是独一无二的。我的身后永远跟着两辆防弹车和超过五个官员，这有时会让人感到有负罪感，因为尽管你已足够谨慎，但还是会过多的暴露自己。“
“But the freedom of expression that you enjoy is not to be taken for granted and there is always somebody who fights for it and if it’s not you it’s somebody else in your place.
“但是言论自由并不是你能享受的起的，要知道，为了这份自由总有人在为你战斗，而你不不能不为他人设身处地的着想。
“I consider myself lucky that I was not killed. When you start telling these stories you know that your life is at stake, you know you might be killed, but what scares you the most is defamation.”
“我没被杀掉已经实属幸运了，当你开始讲述一个你所知道的故事时，你就知道这一切是在用生命做赌注，你知道你可能会被杀掉，但真正的恐吓却是诽谤。”
Journalist and author Ed Vulliamy, who chaired the session, added: “We want the people to try and understand the phenomenon of organised crime in a different light which delegitimizes the system.
本报记者艾德﹒弗里曼补充道：“我们希望人们能试图从另一个角度去理解有组织的犯罪团体在某种角度上是合法化的现象。”
“The people about whom Roberto writes use and abuse this word honour which is of course a complete inversion and the reason why this is such a historic event is that every day Roberto lives, the fact that he is here, is a dishonour to them.”
“罗伯特笔下的所写的人们，滥用世界的荣誉都是截然相反的。这也是为什么罗伯特生活的每一天都好像是一个历史事件一样，而事实上，他还活着就是对这些人的侮辱。“
