In Sicily we talk much about the crisis in Italy and how people suicide because they can not pay bills nor pay loans and increased taxes. It is a sad thing that people chooses that option instead of protesting. Hundreds of thousand of people has though won against banks for taking out illegal loan rates and other non agreed fees, and that is a positive sign. In north Italy over 400 has chosen suicide as the last option, but in Sicily only two people has committed suicide; one worker at Fiat when that fabric was closed and one man in Ragusa because he could not pay the 7,000 euro that was left to pay off family’s home.
The reason for the low suicide rate in south can be explained that south has always been neglected of the Italian government and people are more united and used to handle crisis because the government is never present in the south. People do not trust the government nor are used to have any support from them. Government has chosen to invest much more in north Italy and northern population is used to have some kind of a governmental support. In south you do not have that. Somehow the neglect has also saved the south because the planned industrialization in south than has not made any success has not hit as hard here as in the industrialized north where the industry has a terrible crises to deal with.
Svenska
P? Sicilien pratar vi mycket om krisen i Italien och hur m?nniskor tar sj?lvmord eftersom de inte kan betala r?kningar eller betala l?n och h?jda skatter. Det ?r sorgligt att m?nniskor v?ljer det alternativet i st?llet f?r att protestera. Hundratusentals m?nniskor har ?ven vunnit mot bankerna f?r att de tagit ut illegala l?ner?ntor och andra icke ?verenskomna avgifter, och det ?r ett positivt tecken. I norra Italien har ?ver 400 valt sj?lvmord som sista alternativ, men p? Sicilien har endast tv? personer beg?tt sj?lvmord; en arbetare p? Fiat d? fabriken st?ngdes, och en man i Ragusa f?r att han inte kunde betala ? 7000 som var kvar att betala av familjens hem.
Anledningen till den l?ga sj?lvmordsfrekvensen i s?der kan f?rklaras att syd alltid f?rsummats av den italienska regeringen och folket ?r mer enat och vana att hantera kriser, eftersom regeringen aldrig ?r n?rvarande i s?der. Folk litar inte p? regeringen eller v?ntar n?got st?d fr?n dem. Regeringen har valt att investera mycket mer i norra Italien och norra populationen ?r vana att ha n?gon form av regeringsst?d. I s?der har du inte det. P? n?got s?tt har f?rsummelsen ocks? sparat s?dern, eftersom den planerade industrialiseringen i s?dern inte har gjort n?gon succ? och inte blivit drabbade lika h?rt som i den industrialiserade norr d?r branschen har en fruktansv?rd kris att hantera.