Originally Posted By: LuanKuci
Originally Posted By: m2w
lol just ask northern italians if mafiosi are italian citizens.


They are.
Thanks for asking.
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The thing with the mob in Italy is that, in the North, except for Milan, they are pretty silent.
Every mob has crews up there, it's HUGE...but they don't wanna cause any problem because they need the north to launder money.
That's why it's much unlikley to see an all out war in the north (it has happend tho).

As for the Gypsies vs Mobsters thing:

In the eyes of norhern Italians, gypsies are seen as a bigger threat when it comes to things that can happen to YOU directly.
While the mobs (even if much hated) are seen as more in the shadows and far away from the avarenge Mario.

I do not agree with this view of course, but this is how the 50% of my family thinks.


you're right that in the north the mob is less visible except milan, turin, genoa and other cities where it is virulent enough to make people scared
my point is that generally the gypsies arrested in north italy are far less than southern italians and even compared to other groups like north africans and they are imprisoned almost for petty crimes only on the contrary of southerner often arrested for murders, shooting, gang wars so to speak
can you be robbed by gypsies? yes you can like you can by other groups can you be killed by gypsies? no, according to statistics
it's easier to be killed by somebody else