Sacra Corona Unita

How this italian organzied crime work and how it’s differed from other italian groups like the cosa nostra, camorra or ndrangheta?

Are they more powerful than the camorra?
Their presence outside of Italy?

I saw that members of the Camorra created the SCU.
If its true, why they separed themselves from the Camorra? And how is it different?

Here is the structure.

U can also read some info here: http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/u...;Main=36463&Number=913578#Post913578

They have a presence in Holland where they are involved in drug trafficking via the world´s largest flower auction in Aalsmeer.

Look like most organized crime groups, with street level guys and people more important near the top

Look like the SCU is a spin off of the Camorra.

They are influenced by both Camorra and ´Ndrangheta. In recent years there were several meetings of the Calabrians also attended by representatives of the SCU.

The Ndrangheta was once influenced by LCN. At what point were they able to stand on their own two though?

As you said influenced, not controlled. Sure sicilian mafia was much more powerful than 'Ndrangheta , and sicilian bosses had huge influence over 'Ndrangheta , but Calabria was their territory, they were never controlled by sicilian mafia. And after Riina war with state and huge pressure from state/police, 'Ndrangheta used money from kidnappings to buy drugs and get into drug business, while everyone were focused on Sicilian mafia , they managed to grow almost silently.

It has always amazed me how many of the dons in Italy are so power driven yet the three mafia orginzations seem to be fairly amicable and do not intrude on one another’s territory as much as you would think.

The 'Ndrangheta was influenced by Cosa Nostra but also Camorra in northern calabria there have been camorra networks.

I have heard that Calabria is like a mix of Sicily(in the south) and Naples(in the north). Not sure at what point on the map that starts.

'Sick of hiding': the refugee family fleeing the mafia and Canadian authorities

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/08/refugee-family-italy-mafia-canada

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Couple fleeing Mafia in Italy are now hiding from Canada's immigration officials instead

http://nationalpost.com/wcm/4b0f6066-46cf-4c0e-be8f-0cee694591c8

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Italian couple hiding from the Mafia in Canada surrender to immigration agents — with a new plan to stay

http://nationalpost.com/wcm/93ccb95d-1c78-481f-9e6a-08e1a89bb292

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articl...ming-crackdown-in-which-1-billion.708017

Arrested ‘Mafia man’ formed part of gaming crackdown in which €1 billion were seized

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...108d8d9-d237-4f50-9c65-9f728edf5432.html

9 mafiosi convicted of killing woman, 84

https://www.20min.ch/ro/news/insoli...t-la-Ferrari-a-sa-1re-communion-11184478

The son of a Mafioso leaves the Ferrari at his first communion
A priest from Bari had an eventful day on Sunday. Two families linked to the mafia have made him see all the colors.


Big discomfort on the occasion of the first communion of a little Italian of 9 years, last Sunday in Bari (south). The child, son of a mafia boss currently in prison, was escorted to the front of the church in a red Ferrari convertible. His father had been banned from attending the ceremony. The spectacular arrival of the boy delighted his family members, shocked the audience and deeply shocked the priest, Don Antonio D'Angelo.

"I never thought anything like this could happen. All this is really absurd, "he indignantly said in the " Corriere del Mezzogiorno " . Don Francesco Preite, who works daily with troubled children and adolescents, shares the wrath of his colleague: "Such episodes are intolerable because they contrast with a deeper and more religious aspect. Other values ​​must be taught to our children, "he says.

The incredible arrival of the young boy was not the only event that made Don Antonio D'Angelo leap on that day. The family of another communicant, also related to local crime, had the idea to organize a thunderous and unauthorized fireworks show. "I felt like I was at the party of the patron saint of my country. They lasted so long, "laments the churchman. "How is it that no one at the police has heard the fireworks? They were strong and it lasted 5 or 6 minutes? ", An inhabitant annoyed.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...91e221b-ba7c-4ac3-b237-87b24a3b9eb5.html

32 drugs arrests in Bari
Minors used as pushers, women guardians

https://en.crimerussia.com/international/italian-police-capture-30-gang-members-/

Italian police capture 30 gang members

http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/top...38e227f-b19a-4620-ad9e-e1c5d0a2a75b.html

Mafia: vanished emerging Lecce group
Thirty arrests, including a member of the Sacra Corona Unita

(ANSA) - ROME, JUNE 24 - The police of the Provincial Command of Lecce are carrying out 30 custody orders, of which 19 are in prison and 11 under house arrest, against as many subjects investigated for mafia-type association. The accusations for various reasons also concern the association aimed at the trafficking of drugs, damage followed by fire, illegal possession of weapons and explosive materials, possession and sale of drugs, extortion, handling of stolen goods, aggravated threat, abusive use of weapons, seizure of person and private violence. Among the captured is also a prominent member of the Holy Crown. The mayor of a municipality in the province of Lecce is under investigation for external competition in mafia association.

Vito Griner, 37, reputed member of the clan headed by his brother Filippo, was shot dead in the town of Andria (Bari); in the ambush another man remained critically injured.

Italy is non stop action

Corrado Parisi, a 45-year-old man from Molfetta, was shot dead Sunday afternoon in via Capotorti, in the San Domenico district of the Apulian city. Parisi had a criminal record.

https://www.actualitte.com/article/...urs-devient-un-bateau-bibliotheque/95939


Confiscated from the mafia, this smuggler's ship becomes a boat-library

The ship is called Kalimche , a sailing boat that was confiscated from organized crime in Apulia, the Sacra Corona Unita. After a year spent in the port of Otranto (Italy), it was restored by eight miners, as part of their work of general interest, out of the prison where they were detained. And now, Kalimchè serves as a library for all.
The project named Il Cantiere d'Amare (Love Building) was set up by the Marcobaleno Social Promotion Association, located in Bari. She won the prize for the 2018 edition of the Orrizonti Solidali contest (Horizons solidaires), supported by the Megamark Foundation. Thanks to a grant of € 90,000 granted by the Ministry of Justice, this Kalimchè moult was allowed as part of the rehabilitation of young people in difficult situations.

(ANSA) - BARI, 26 JULY - Controls, hearings of people informed of the facts were carried out by police and Carabinieri during the night to reconstruct the ambush that took place around 10pm yesterday in Andria, in which the 62-year-old Vito Capogna was killed, considered a prominent element of local organized crime and already involved in investigations by the Antimafia.
The first findings were carried out by the agents of the Commissariat of Andria and the Scientific Police, then the Dda of Bari delegated the further investigations to the Carabinieri of the Investigative Unit, also arranging the execution of stubs.
The investigations are coordinated by prosecutor Marco D'Agostino. According to what has been reconstructed so far, the victim was standing near his home in the company of another person, when he was joined by two 7.65 caliber shots in the chest and neck. murder took place just over a month after another mafia ambush in Andria. On June 24, the 40-year-old Vito Griner was killed in the center, near the town hall.

The boss of the San Paolo neighborhood of Bari Andrea Montani, 55, returns to prison. The Nor Carabinieri of Modugno (Bari) carried out an order of custody for the attempted murder of the 42-year-old Ignazio Gesuito, who was wounded in an ambush on 5 February 2018 in the Cecilia district of Modugno. Montani, nicknamed 'Malagnacch', would have tried to kill him to avenge his son Salvatore, killed by Gesuito in June 2006.

At the boss, free again in 2016 after 18 years in prison and under house arrest for a robbery, the new crime is disputed with the aggravating factors of the mafia method and having acted "for reasons of supremacy and mafia reaffirmation in the territory", by day and by the uncovered face. Gesuito, joined by two assassins in the condominium courtyard of the house, Survived, he lost the use of his legs.

Southern Italian organized crime syndicates planned their strategies in a mansion in Padenghe, on the shores of the Garda Lake (Lombardy).

by Valerio Morabito, 01.09.2019 Bresciaoggi


In a "camouflaged" villa, in a quiet neighborhood of vacation homes, exponents of the 'ndrangheta clans made agreements with members of the Sacra Corona Unita and supported fugitive boss Giuseppe Pesce of the Rosarno-based family of the same name. It is learned from the papers of a recent sentence of the Cassation, which confirms the disturbing rooting of the mafias on Lake Garda.

THE ROOTING of the mafias on Lake Garda and in particular in Valtenesi is "narrated" and certified in the reasons for the sentence of the Court of Cassation which confirmed the sentences to eight of the ten people accused in various capacities of being part of "a type association" ndranghetista aggravated by the availability of weapons ". The trial focused on interceptions made with a bug placed by the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate in the Padenghe home.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.br...ava-il-vertice-delle-mafie-1.7594133/amp

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.br...e-patto-di-sangue-sul-lago-1.7594047/amp

The links with Rosarno are old, Umberto Bellocco of Rosarno founded the SCU. The 'Ndrangheta boss, 82 now, is still in prison I think since '93.

19-year-old Giampiero Carvone was shot dead at one of the other nights in Via Tevere, in the Perrino district of Brindisi, where he lived with family members.

Mortal ambush in Bari: the order to kill left the prison. The murder took place on the evening of September 11th. The victim Michele Ranieri was hit by several gunshots while he was on the street, in the San Pio district. Those responsible are organic to the "Strisciuglio" clan, operating in the Apulian capital. The presumed principal, Saverio Faccilongo, already in prison for another murder committed in the same neighborhood, was notified of a precautionary custody order. The two alleged material executors, Giovanni Sgaramella and Saverio Carchedi, were also arrested with him.

It is one of the most aggressive clans of the Sacra Corona Unita.

A 22-year-old man who had been shot last night in Triggiano (Bari) was wounded in the groin with gunshots: the young man, who went alone to the hospital to be rescued, told the doctors and carabinieri that he had been hit by strangers and not knowing the reason for the attack.

Mafia ambush with Kalashnikov in the center of Casarano, in the province of Lecce . And a wounded man rushed to the hospital. It is very serious. His name is Antonio Afendi, Moroccan nationality, 28 years old.
From the first information leaked, the victim would be the cohabitant man of Augustino Potenza's widow, boss of SCU killed with Kalashnikov shots in an ambush outside a hypermarket, in Casarano, three years ago. The injured man was hit by bullets in the neck and shoulder while in the car.

Italian police arrest 24 in connection with mafia turf war in Bari
OCTOBER 28, 2019 12:21 EDITORMOB WATCH'

Police from the Italian city of Bari have carried out an extensive operation against the leaders of a crime gang responsible for the crimes of murder, extortion, robbery and the illegal possession of weapons and drugs.

A total of 24 arrests were made during the searches ordered by the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Bari, Puglia, Lazio, Abruzzo and Emilia Romagna, with the collaboration of the Crime Prevention Departments of Puglia. Canine units and air support were also involved in the raids.

During the investigation, several weapons along with ammunition, drugs and accounting records were seized, as well more than one million euros in cash.

The present investigation began in the early 2017 when a turf war broke out in the Japigia district south of Bari over control of the drugs trade, following a split within the clan.

A series of tit-for-tat attacks and reprisals resulted in three deaths and several shooting as well as attacks on property.

The murders were committed in Bari between January and April 2017.

On January 17, Francesco Barbieri was shot dead at close range by a hit man. On March 6, four assassins, armed with machine guns and pistols, murdered Giuseppe Gelao and seriously wounded Antonio Palermiti, grandson of one of the top members of the Parisi clan. On April 12, assassins armed with Kalashnikovs killed Nicola De Santis.

“One of the largest districts of the city was controlled in a mafia-like sense through the (incursions of armed groups), which represent a form of subculture that comes from cinema and then results in the effects that we now see – said deputy prosecutor of Bari Francesco Giannella, referring to the Italian gangster movie and TV show Gomorrah, which was reportedly referenced by some of the suspects in wiretapped conversations.

The alleged material perpetrator of the attempted murder of 28-year-old Antonio Afendi Amin was arrested. This is 24-year-old Giuseppe Moscara, affiliated to the cosca 'Montedoro'.
Afendi is considered by investigators the rising star of the Potenza della Sacra corona unita clan, of which he had inherited the regency after the killing of the boss Augustino Potenza, which took place in front of a Casarano hypermarket on 26 October 2016.

A Gargano mafia clan leader, Pasquale Ricucci, 45, was killed a while ago in an ambush carried out with rifle shots under his home in via San Pietro, in the 'Macchia' district of Monte Sant'Angelo. The man is considered by the investigators to be at the top of the Lombardi-Ricucci-La Torre clan, heir to the Romito, always fighting with the 'mountaineers' Li Bergolis-Miucci clan.

Mafia, maxi blitz in Puglia: 50 arrests, "D'Abramo-Sforza" clan hit
The police of the provincial command of Bari arrested 50 people, including leaders and affiliates of the "D'Abramo-Sforza" clan of Altamura. The accusation is in various capacities of an armed mafia-type association, possession and carrying of weapons, drug trafficking, murder, attempted murder, extortion, bid rigging.

An ambush failed yesterday afternoon in the industrial area of ​​Manfredonia, the target was Leonardo 'Dino' Miucci, from Monte Sant'Angelo, brother of Enzo Miucci , considered by the investigators the current ruler of the 'mountaineers' clan.
The ambush could be the response to the murder of Pasquale Ricucci, the last victim of the Gargano mafia, killed last November 11, in Macchia, a hamlet of Monte Sant'Angelo.

Bombs rock Italian towns as Sacra Corona Unita Mafia demands extortion payments from shopkeepers https://gangstersinc.org/blog/bombs-rock-italian-towns-as-sacra-corona-unita-mafia-demands-exto

The Fourth Mafia is still underestimated by the Italian state.

600 thousand inhabitants, 7 thousand square kilometers and a single court, moreover with 12 thousand pending trials, many in the trial phase due to lack of classrooms in which to hold trials. Suffice it to say that in October 2021 it was not possible to assign a dignified workplace to 14 expert chancellors and six judicial operators. This is the situation in the province of the dangerous and ruthless 'Fourth Mafia' in which the state thinks about how to continue to deal with it, not taking into account, at the moment, the need to reactivate the judicial structures that were abandoned a few years ago.