Sanne de Boer

I was invited by an author to help them write their book.

So I was working there actually as an editor.

I had never been in the south of Italy.

I was immediately, I fell in love with the natural beauty of the place.

I was living on this beautiful hilltop village by the sea.

The people in the village was super welcoming to me.

It was just, I'd never expected to want to stay there after finishing that book, but I couldn't help it.

Maybe I had an idea that it would teach me a lot about the world as well.

But of course, I couldn't know at that point.

I certainly didn't move there to investigate the mafia.

Right.

That's right.

And of course, it took a while also for me to kind of get to understand a little bit more about the local mafia clans, because it's understandable that people wouldn't be very ready to speak about it with me.

Also, another factor was my Italian was still very basic.

Yeah.

It took me quite some years to be able to read the papers and to be able to eventually start reporting on the subject and to go and speak to all kinds of people about it.

She never even called them.

Right.

It was in the middle of the night.

It was such a shocking event.