Drugs, the families who are fighting over Milan.
Old bosses and new fools: 5,000 arrests in a year.
The city as a huge wholesale market.

Corriere della Sera / Milano
November 1st 2013
by Cesare Giuzzi and Giovanni Santucci
http://milano.corriere.it/milano/notizie...fe7fa6f7b.shtml

More than five thousand people arrested in one year. We are introduced to the "manager", the "front operator" and "employee". This is the huge work force (or, at least, the ones intercepted by the police) that feeds the drug industry in Lombardy.

> Drugs seized: a fifth of the entire Italian “market”, Europe's largest.

An investigator comments: "For the past few years, anyone can buy a pound of cocaine and start dealing independently, earning roughly around 5-6 thousand euro in three days."
That is why, last year alone, within the Milanese market five people were killed and more than a dozen of shootings were investigated.

It seems like a paradox, but the most influential groups do not use guns to conquer districts.
It's quite simple: there is no reason to do so, if there's room for everyone, if the customer demand is virtually inexhaustible.

What's happening is the very opposite: it's easier to get killed in the lower layer, around those small and medium-sized criminal enterprises made of amateurs, dope heads or stragglers, or between decaying old “fools”.

OLD BOSSES

Decadent fools were the Tatones, of old Casertan origins, the historical leaders of a strategically divided district north of Milan, Quarto Oggiaro, where two of the four brothers were killed in three days: Emanuele, 52, last Sunday (along with his driver, Paolo Simone), Pasquale, 54, Wednesday night, gunned down with a shotgun blast to the head as he was getting into his car.

It could be drug-related or not, authorities say. It seems so, perhaps due to an offensive and excessive arrogance by those who still considered themselves bosses by virtue of their name only, in an area where there are two other criminal dynasties: the Carvelli clan, of the 'Ndrangheta, and the Crisafulli La Cosa Nostra family.
Their boss, Biagio “Dentino” (literally “Little Tooth”) Crisafulli, is in jail serving a life sentence. But his army, based on the latest survey, is building a new balance, networking with other groups.

EXECUTIONS

A "lack of respect" (a debt of 40-thousand euro worth of cocaine, requested out in public with the use of "bad manners") a year ago claimed the lives of Italian amateurish dope dealer and macho Massimiliano Spelza and his wife Carolina, a Dominican Republic national. Killed on the streets by two men close to Calabrian families, but “fools” on their own.

They are a new threat to Milan, the capital of the “open market”. Where the ability to remain visible and active in the market counts as much as the power of intimidation.

It is also seen from the data undisclosed by the Central Drug Control Directory: in the city, in 2012 alone, 1.426 foreigners were arrested for drug trafficking (mostly cocaine, heroin and dope). More than the Italians, and this is a true, national record, compared to the 214 foreigners stranded in Naples, and 60 in Reggio Calabria.

THE MARKET

That's why things like this happen in Milan (documented by data gathered by the Milan Police Dept. in 2010): a "drugs broker", which acts as a connection for some Ndrangheta families, instructs one of his men to withdraw "bundles" of "coca" by a powerful Serbian-Montenegrin cartel rooted in the city.

In one of the most important drug wholesaling markets in Europe, business transactions like these are settled on a daily basis. Where a multiethnic underworld made of, top-to-bottom, Slavic gangs and Albanian clans, teamed with the Bulgarian "the godfather" Evelin Banev-Ros was arrested by the police while he was importing a gigantic cargo from South America (6 tons ).

The historical families of the 'Ndrangheta still "lock" their territories: the Barbaro-Papalia clan between Corsico and Buccinasco, the group of Francesco Orazio Desiderato, linked to the Limbadi-Mancuso clan, has moved impressive "packages" between the Niguarda neighborhood to the Brianza, up to Barlassina, a little town where he was arrested ten days ago, and finally the Flachi-Trovato clan between Comasina and Bruzzano.

CLANS

Families who have, however, adapted to a fluid market: according to the occasion, they can order supplies from Calabria or buy from the "multinationals" foreign groups.

The clear sign of this post-modern market can be seen on the street: Gambian "pushers" buy in bulk and deal in the Navigli and in Corso Como. They keep to themselves and avoid risks.

Violence is used mostly between Italian thugs (or fools) who just got release after a 20-year stint. And that now trade a few pounds of cocaine while being nostalgically stuck to the underworld of the early nineties .


Mobs and Turfs, map by D'ARCO Data.



ITALIAN GROUPS

Barbaro-Papalia ('Ndrangheta)
1 – Corsico
2 – Buccinasco

Magrini (Sacra Corona Unita)
Panalia ('Ndrangheta)
3 – Baggio
4 – Settimo Milanese

Fidanzati (La Cosa Nostra), their boss Gaetano Fidanzati died on Oct. 5th 2013
5 – Corvetto
Desiderato (connected to 'Ndrangheta clan Mancuso)
6 – Zona Maciachini
7 – Niguarda

Flachi-Coco-Trovato ('Ndrangheta) – Pepe Flachi is on house arrests due to health issues.
8 – Comasina
9 – Bruzzano

Tatone (Casertan Camorra)
Carvelli ('Ndrangheta)
Crisafulli (La Cosa Nostra) – Biagio “Dentino/Little Tooth” Crisafulli is serving a life sentence.
10 – Quarto Oggiaro

Morabito ('Ndrangheta)
11 – Zona Ortomercato / Fruit market

MAIN FOREIGN GROUPS ACTIVE IN “OPEN” TERRITORIES

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - Moroccans and Tunisians

6, 7, 8 - Gambians

TOP-TIER FOREIGN WHOLESALERS (THOUSANDS OF KILOS)

Serbians – Saric clan (last arrests occurred in 2010)

Hungarians – Banev clan (last arrests occurred in 2012)

Albanians (no clan specified.)

“MINOR ENTERPRISES” FOREIGN WHOLESALERS (TENS OF KILOS)

A diverse Latin American underworld made mostly of: Ecuadorians, Dominicans, Salvadorians and Brazilians

They use the two international airports of Linate and Malpensa as smuggling hubs, as well as private shipping companies.

Thnx for the post LuanKuci!
Milan is a big European city with an extremely active underworld that's not much talked about (in comparison with London, Amsterdam or Marseille). Sicilian mafia, Ndrangheta, Camorra and Sacra Corona Unita all have a large presence there. Obviously still the most powerful there. They are followed by the Serbs (Saric), Bulgarians (Banev) and Albanians. Bunch of crazy bastards Gambians are pushers only, Moroccans and Tunisians are also mostly pushers but they tend to be more violent and ruthless.

you got that right.

this article didn't go deep into the whole latin american crime scene as well. latin kings, commando, neta, ms13, trebol and other "pandillas" are operating in the city.

some maps for thoughts:



also gypsies are well active, of both romanian and macedonian origin.