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Sicily's Mafia primed for reversal of fortune #916041
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FEATURE-Sicily's cornered Mafia primed for reversal of fortune
June 26, 2017, 03:00:00 AM EDT By Reuters

Reuters
(Repeats story first published on June 23 with no changes to
text)
* Sicilian Mafia seen regrouping after years of setbacks
* Large numbers of mobsters leaving jail
* Weak economy hurts mob, brings drugs back into focus

By Crispian Balmer
PALERMO, Italy, June 23 (Reuters) - Shortly before 8 a.m. on
a sunny spring morning, Mafia boss Giuseppe Dainotti was cycling
down a quiet street when two men on a motorbike drew alongside
and shot him three times, killing him on the spot.
It was a classic mob hit in the heart of the Sicilian
capital. People claimed to have seen nothing and only one person
admitted to even hearing the gunfire. A month on, no one has
been arrested.
Released from prison in 2014, Dainotti, 67, had served more
than two decades in jail for murder. The motive for his own
murder are not clear but police say the first high-profile Mafia
hit in Palermo since 2010 may signal renewed internal strife.
"The Mafia today is in search of a new leadership at a time
when a lot of the old bosses are coming out of prison," said
Palermo police chief, Renato Cortese.
"The danger is that some bigwig will be released and try to
put the Mafia back together again," he told Reuters.
Once all-powerful on Sicily, the world's most famous crime
gang, known as Cosa Nostra, "Our Thing", has been squeezed over
the past two decades, with many bosses put behind bars, many of
its businesses sequestered and many locals ready to defy it.
Despite these setbacks, no one believes it is dying. Indeed,
after years of decline, with the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta
overtaking it as Italy's most powerful mobsters, prosecutors
believe it is trying to rebuild, starting with its drug trade.
"The mafia organisation is once again looking to develop and
maintain a total monopoly on the extremely profitable narcotics
market," Matteo Frasca, the head of Palermo's Appeals Court,
said in a speech in January.
Italian prosecutors say the 'Ndrangheta has a stranglehold
on cocaine trade, but Cosa Nostra is a major player in the
Italian hashish market, often importing the drug from northern
Africa and selling it throughout Europe.
In March, police found 400 kg (880 lb) of hashish, worth an
estimated 3 million euros ($3.4 million), floating just off the
Sicilian coast after a drop-off went awry. In May, police seized
around 300 kg of hashish in a single raid in Palermo.
"For a while, the Mafia depended on public work scams and
extortion rackets for much of their money, but with the economy
in such a dire straits here, they are returning to their old
drug habits," said a senior anti-Mafia magistrate, who declined
to be named because he was not authorised to speak publicly.

SHOPKEEPERS' REVOLT
Sicily's economic output fell more than 13 percent between
2008 and 2015 and is only slowly recovering, while the jobless
rate is 22 percent, twice the national average.
The deep recession has made it much more difficult for
hard-up businesses to pay protection money, or "pizzo" in
Italian, to the Mafia and more than 1,000 firms have revolted
against paying that in Palermo alone in little more than a
decade.
In May, the trial started of nine men accused of extorting
cash from a dozen stores in the city's central Via Maqueda,
which were all run by foreigners, mainly Bangladeshis.
"It is an extraordinary affair. For the first time in
Palermo, a group of foreign storekeepers rebelled. They rebelled
together. It was a collective action," said Daniele Marannano,
coordinator of Addiopizzo, "Goodbye pizzo".
Addiopizzo is a grassroots civic movement that encourages
companies to fight back against Cosa Nostra.
"Lots of businesses still pay the pizzo, but they now want
something back from the Mafia for their money - help fixing
prices in their neighbourhood, help keeping difficult employees
in check, help collecting unpaid bills," said Marannano.
A local businessman, who declined to be named because of the
sensitivities involved, said one of the consequences of the
Mafia's decline was a rise in petty crime.
He complained that fruit groves operated by his family food
company were regularly raided at night by small-time thieves.
"That never used to happen in the past. A fly couldn't land on a
fruit tree without permission first from the Mafia."

POWER STRUGGLE
The state's fight against the Mafia only got serious in 1992
after the group murdered two of Italy's top magistrates,
Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, triggering national
outrage and finally forcing complacent politicians to act.
Successive governments introduced waves of anti-Mafia laws,
allowing the state to seize mob assets, keep imprisoned mafiosi
incommunicado and far from Sicily, and develop protection
programmes for informers.
As a result, hundreds of mafiosi have been arrested over the
past 25 years, including Salvatore "Toto" Riina, the Boss of
Bosses, who ordered the murders of Falcone and Borsellino. He is
86 and believed to be terminally ill and likely to die in jail.
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However, many other less prominent mobsters who were caught
up in the big anti-Mafia trials of the last two decades have
either been freed, like Dainotti, or else are coming up for
release, like Riina's nephew Giovanni Grizzaffi.
"The last Boss of Bosses was Riina. He was never formally
replaced and people felt kept in check by him, even when he was
in jail. When he dies, you might see a power struggle," said
police chief Cortese, who has a photograph of Falcone and
Borsellino hanging in his office.
Dainotti was shot dead on the eve of the 25th anniversary of
Falcone's killing, leaving police and politicians wondering
whether the date had been specially picked to signal that the
Mafia was back in action.
Rosario Crocetta, the governor of Sicily and anti-Mafia
crusader, has been the target of at least three mob plots to
kill him, most recently in 2010. He says the group is much
reduced, but ever evolving.
"They are chameleons," he said, two bodyguards standing
alongside his table at an outdoors cafe.
"You are never going to win total victory over the Mafia,
just as you can never totally defeat evil."

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/featuresic...-20170626-00073


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Re: Sicily's Mafia primed for reversal of fortune [Re: Hollander] #916044
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I just read this this morning, lol good post my man...


It pretty much sums up what I have observed, and been posting about for the last two years or so....

Drugs are King.....

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I always knew the Sicilians were trying to reactivate their Narcotics channels, and that this is the primary function of their relationship with the American LCN.


You think Rizzuto got the Sicilians involved in Hashish? He was HUGE in that before he died, I think he was the biggest Sicilian importer for hash, the other biggest clans are all the Naples clans embedded in Spain.....

Sicily prepares for Mafia kingpins' comeback: Fear #916053
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Sicily prepares for Mafia kingpins' comeback: Fears the island could see the return of mob rule as old bosses are released from prison after completing their sentences


•Mafia boss Giuseppe Dainotti, 67 was shot dead in Palermo, Italy, last month
•Police say his murder signals renewed internal strife among notorious gang
•Dainotti was released from prison in 2014 after two decades behind bars

There are fears that Sicily could see the return of mob rule, as former Mafia bosses are released from prison.

Mafia boss Giuseppe Dainotti, 67, was shot dead in broad daylight in Palermo, Italy, at the end of last month.

The motive for the murder is not clear, but police say the first high-profile Mafia hit in the Sicilian capital since 2010 suggests there may be renewed internal strife.

Prior to his death, Dainotti had been released from prison in 2014 after serving more than two decades behind bars for murder.

He was shot dead on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Mafia killing of magistrate Giovanni Falcone, leaving police and politicians wondering whether the date was specially picked to signal that the criminal gang was back in action.

Following the murder, people claimed to have seen nothing and only one person admitted to even hearing the gunfire. No arrests have been made so far.

Palermo police chief Renato Cortese said: 'The Mafia today is in search of a new leadership at a time when a lot of the old bosses are coming out of prison.

'The danger is that some bigwig will be released and try to put the Mafia back together again.'

Once all-powerful on Sicily, the world's most famous crime gang, known as Cosa Nostra, 'Our Thing', has been squeezed over the past two decades.

Many bosses were put behind bars, many of its businesses isolated and many locals ready to defy the gang.

However, after years of decline - with the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta overtaking it as Italy's most powerful mobsters - prosecutors believe it is trying to rebuild, starting with its drug trade.

Matteo Frasca, the head of Palermo's Appeals Court, said in a speech in January: 'The mafia organisation is once again looking to develop and maintain a total monopoly on the extremely profitable narcotics market.'

Italian prosecutors say the 'Ndrangheta has a stranglehold on cocaine trade, but Cosa Nostra is a major player in the Italian cannabis market, often importing the drug from northern Africa and selling it throughout Europe.

In March, police found 400kg (880lb) of cannabis, worth an estimated 3 million euros ($3.4million), floating just off the Sicilian coast after a drop-off went awry.

In May, police seized around 300kg of cannabis in a single raid in Palermo.

A senior anti-Mafia magistrate, who declined to be named, said: 'For a while, the Mafia depended on public work scams and extortion rackets for much of their money, but with the economy in such a dire straits here, they are returning to their old drug habits,'

Sicily's economic output fell more than 13 percent between 2008 and 2015 and is only slowly recovering, while the unemployment rate is 22 percent, twice the national average.

The deep recession has made it much more difficult for hard-up businesses to pay protection money, or 'pizzo' in Italian, to the Mafia and more than 1,000 firms have revolted against paying that in Palermo alone in little more than a decade.

In May, the trial started of nine men accused of extorting cash from a dozen stores in the city's central Via Maqueda, which were all run by foreigners, mainly Bangladeshis.
Daniele Marannano, coordinator of the Addiopizzo (Goodbye pizzo) movement, said: 'It is an extraordinary affair. For the first time in Palermo, a group of foreign storekeepers rebelled. They rebelled together. It was a collective action.

'Lots of businesses still pay the pizzo, but they now want something back from the Mafia for their money - help fixing prices in their neighbourhood, help keeping difficult employees in check, help collecting unpaid bills.'

A local businessman, who did not wish to be named, said one of the consequences of the Mafia's decline was a rise in petty crime.

He complained that fruit groves operated by his family food company were regularly raided at night by small-time thieves.

'That never used to happen in the past. A fly couldn't land on a fruit tree without permission first from the Mafia,' he said.

The state's fight against the Mafia got serious in 1992 after the Cosa Nostra murdered two of Italy's top magistrates, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, triggering national outrage.

Successive governments introduced waves of anti-Mafia laws, allowing the state to seize mob assets, keep imprisoned members of the Mafia incommunicado and far from Sicily, and develop protection programmes for informers.

As a result, hundreds of mafiosi have been arrested over the past 25 years, including Salvatore 'Toto' Riina, the Boss of Bosses, who ordered the murders of Falcone and Borsellino. He is 86 and believed to be terminally ill and likely to die in jail.

However, many other less prominent mobsters who were caught up in the big anti-Mafia trials of the last two decades have either been freed, like Dainotti, or else are coming up for release, like Riina's nephew Giovanni Grizzaffi.

Police chief Cortese said: 'The last Boss of Bosses was Riina. He was never formally replaced and people felt kept in check by him, even when he was in jail. When he dies, you might see a power struggle.'

Rosario Crocetta, the governor of Sicily and anti-Mafia crusader, has been the target of at least three mob plots to kill him, most recently in 2010. He says the group is much reduced, but ever evolving.

'They are chameleons,' he said, with two bodyguards standing alongside his table at an outdoors cafe.

'You are never going to win total victory over the Mafia, just as you can never totally defeat evil.'

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4633160/Sicilys-cornered-Mafia-primed-reversal-fortune.html



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Re: Sicily's Mafia primed for reversal of fortune [Re: CabriniGreen] #916054
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Originally Posted By: CabriniGreen
I just read this this morning, lol good post my man...


It pretty much sums up what I have observed, and been posting about for the last two years or so....

Drugs are King.....


True.. The only way for them to become big again is to make lasting partnerships with other Crime Orgs in the world. South American cartels, North African hash barons and/or Middle Eastern opium producers. And most importantly to build trust, so they can get their product on consignment, just like their Calabrian cousins..


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Who's the bosses that's due to be released soon???


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Originally Posted By: BillyBrizzi
Originally Posted By: CabriniGreen
I just read this this morning, lol good post my man...


It pretty much sums up what I have observed, and been posting about for the last two years or so....

Drugs are King.....


True.. The only way for them to become big again is to make lasting partnerships with other Crime Orgs in the world. South American cartels, North African hash barons and/or Middle Eastern opium producers. And most importantly to build trust, so they can get their product on consignment, just like their Calabrian cousins..


Or Dutch traders.


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Originally Posted By: thebigfella
Who's the bosses that's due to be released soon???


In Palermo Gianni Nicchi for example, the future of Cosa Nostra.


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Originally Posted By: Hollander
Originally Posted By: thebigfella
Who's the bosses that's due to be released soon???


In Palermo Gianni Nicchi for example, the future of Cosa Nostra.


When is he due to be released?

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Not just Gianni Nicchi,A LOT of big players that went down during late 80s and maxi trial are getting released.


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They're probably back in jail before they know it.


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Sicily's Mafia allies with feared Nigerian Vikings gang in Palermo

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sicilys-mafia-ally-feared-nigerian-vikings-gang-palermo-1628019


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Originally Posted By: ChrissyScars
Originally Posted By: Hollander
Originally Posted By: thebigfella
Who's the bosses that's due to be released soon???


In Palermo Gianni Nicchi for example, the future of Cosa Nostra.


When is he due to be released?


Nicchi is/was serving 2/3 of a 13 year sentence since December 2009, so he could be out already.


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After year's of decline, Sicily's mafia clans are heading to Germany in search of business.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...e-a7814961.html


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How the mafia are moving in on aid money being poured in to deal with Europe's migrant crisis

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...l#ixzz4mK9VbHOG


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Falcone statue vandalized, decapitated in Palermo
Premier blasts wretched cowardice on Twitter via @PaoloGentiloni


(ANSA) - Palermo, July 10 - Prosecutors in Palermo on Monday opened a probe into vandalism of the statue of slain anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone outside a school named after him in the Sicilian regional capital. The statue's head and part of the torso were broken off and used as a battering ram against the wall of the Falcone-Borsellino school. Falcone was assassinated by Cosa Nostra along with his wife and three members of his security detail in a bomb blast in May 1992.
His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino was murdered by the mob in an attack the following July that also claimed the lives of five policemen.
Premier Paolo Gentiloni blasted the vandalism. "Insulting the memory of Falcone is a wretched exhibition of cowardice," Gentiloni said via the @PaoloGentiloni Twitter account.


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Italian prosecutors say the 'Ndrangheta has a stranglehold on cocaine trade, but Cosa Nostra is a major player in the Italian cannabis market, often importing the drug from northern Africa and selling it throughout Europe.


it's just like i said times ago, sicilian mafia is by far the biggest player in cannabis trafficking (marijuana and hashish) in italy; weed is produced in sicily and hashish is mostly imported from morocco
in the latest years about 80% of italian cannabis was seized in sicily, it is a huge quantity

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Of the Italian mafias Sicilian Cosa Nostra saw the largest growth in Germany.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201708151056481817-germany-italian-mafia/


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Nicchi is still behind bars, they now have transferred Sandro Lo Piccolo to the same prison. The two are bitter enemies.

http://www.palermotoday.it/cronaca/mafia/sandro-lo-piccolo-gianni-nicchi-carcere-l-aquila.html


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nicchi will be released in 2024, lo piccolo faced life

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One of the rising stars Giulio Caporrimo returns to prison for a few years.

https://www.nuovosud.it/63632-cronaca-pa...OZFcyllzcupr.99


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i thought caporrimo was still in prison, he would be out in 2 years at most anyway i think
in the latest months anyway were released calogero lo piccolo and pino lo verde from san lorenzo 'mandamento'

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Italian-German Mafia operation sees 37 arrested
Rinzivillo clan clobbered, two Carabinieri among suspects

(ANSA) - Rome, October 4 - The authorities in Italy and Germany embarked on a huge operation targeting to the Gela-based Rinzivillo clan on Wednesday. Police were executing arrest warrants for 37 people in Sicily, Lazio, Lombardy, Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna in Italy and in Germany.
Assets worth 11 million euros were seized as part of the operation. A Roman lawyer and two Carabinieri police officers were among the people arrested. The cops are accused of illegal access to the force's databases. They are suspected of passing on confidential information to members of the clan, which has long been allied with the Madonia and Corleonesi groups. The lawyer is suspected of being a go-between for the mafia with other professionals.

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2017/10...06a77aff9c.html

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The boss Salvatore Rinzivillo used a representative to Germany to establish crime cells in Karlsruhe and Cologne, and sent out a relative to boost drug trade in Germany. They also contacted the Calabrian Antonio Strangio, former manager of the now renamed "Da Bruno" restaurant, where the Duisburg massacre claimed six lives in 2007.


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Salvatore Mulè, boss of Palermo Center, is in custody. Three years ago he could have been killed by other bosses for having violated internal rules. Arrested also Carmelo D'Amico, boss of Bagheria.


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Italy-Argentina cocaine ring busted
Arrests in Palermo, Rome, Udine

(ANSA) - Rome, October 12 - Carabinieri police arrested a number of people in Palermo, Rome and Udine on Thursday after unearthing a big cocaine-trafficking ring operating between Argentina and Italy to supply the Sicilian night scene, sources said. The drugs alleged went to pushers in clubs in the provinces of Palermo and Trapani.
As part of the operation, five kilogrammes of cocaine were seized in Buenos Aires.
As well as cocaine, the ring trafficked MDMA or MD, ecstasy, marijuana and hashish in the province of Palermo.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2017/10/...8c2b6155c2.html

the drug ring led by the cosa nostra bagheria family

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How Cosa Nostra's 'cattle mafia' is destroying Sicily's farmers
Broken by prosecutors and rivals, the Sicilian mafia has retreated to its rural origins, driving farmers from their lands with grisly intimidation campaigns

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/14/cosa-nostra-cattle-mafia-sicily-farmers-intimidation


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Italy breaks up Libyan fuel smuggling ring involving mafia

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy...a-idUSKBN1CN2HI


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Francesco Corallo, the so-called king of the slot-machines, could face a trial into alleged money laundering after being notified by prosecutors that an investigation has been concluded. The move often comes before prosecutors request an indictment. The same notification was also sent to the former foreign minister Gianfranco Fini.
Corallo, who operates several casinos in the Caribbean, was arrested in St Maarten last year and extradited to Italy.

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He's related to Tony Ducks, from like, waaay back, right?


-I shot him a coupla' times.
-What's a couple?
-Hmm, more than a couple... Really I don't know the exact amount, maybe I shot him 10 times, 12 times?
-Maybe fifteen?
-Hmm, it could've been fifteen...

-Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso
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