http://www.breitbart.com/london/201...less-nigerian-mafia-is-colonizing-italy/

Italian Criminologist Says Ruthless Nigerian Mafia Is ‘Colonizing Italy’

i don't think that murder was done by nigerian mafia, but i'm agree it would be probably the strongest among foreign gangs in the next years, especially if they form their own neighborhoods

Forming their own neighborhoods in south italy and taking over some parts of city,hmm i dont think so,if that happens,we just might see another Castel Volturno massacre.

Voodoo.

It also says its the most ruthless mafia in the world,hmm havent they heard about the cartels in south america?? there is a video where a Black Axe member from Nigeria clearly says "we do what we do but at the end of the day we must pay the italians their percent"

We see some of these guys here in Holland with their hookers always wearing fancy suits.

i meant italy in general if they form large neighborhoods in milan or rome, for example, most of immigrants live in central and northern italy
the strongholds of nigerian mafia in italy are turin and padua

http://www.breitbart.com/london/201...migrants-barbecue-dog-at-welcome-center/

Culture Shock: Italians Aghast as Immigrants Barbecue Dog at Welcome Center

Sounds more like the Black Axe or another confraternity

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03...xposes-mafia-smuggling-nigerians-europe/

Undercover operation exposes mafia smuggling Nigerians to europe

I read an article in Paris Match last year about Nigerian gangs in Italy. Pretty powerful.

Nigerians are often behind online scams in the US. I sold a collector car a couple of years ago, and most of the responses I got were from Nigerian-based scammers. East Indians are behind most of the IRS phone scams in the US.

according to italian anti-mafia direction (the dia) the nigerian mafia (black axe, eye) is now the strongest, more violent and structured,among foreign criminal groups in italy
the report was written last month

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/italy-...little-help-with-fight-curb-immigration/

Italy struggles to help thousands trafficked as sex slaves

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/03/07/sex-traffickers-exploit-nigerian-migrants-in-italy/

Sex traffickers exploit Nigerian migrants in Italy

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsa...-a-sex-trafficking-gang-called-black-axe

Italian Cops Try To Stop A Sex Trafficking Gang Called Black Axe

https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch...ra-nigerian-black-axe-new-foe-for-police

Italy: After Cosa Nostra, Nigerian Black Axe New Foe for Police

https://www.aljazeera.com/programme...taly-mafia-migrants-180627143634282.html

Italy: The Mafia and the Migrants

I just wanted to post this,great video!

https://torino.diariodelweb.it/torino/articolo/?nid=20180830-526614

Nigerian Mafia in Turin, how powerful it is and how to fight: interview with the head of the Mobile Squad
Prostitution, shop and begging with the shadow of voodoo rituals. Is the Nigerian mafia really so powerful in Turin? And above all, how do you fight? This is explained by Marco Martino, the first manager of the Turin Mobile Squad
Andrea Parisotto
THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018
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Nigerian Mafia in Turin, how powerful it is and how to fight: interview with the head of the Mobile Squad
Nigerian mafia in Turin, how powerful it is and how to fight: interview with the head of the Mobile Squad (SHUTTERSTOCK / LINKEDIN)
TURIN - The Nigerian mafia is increasingly powerful in Turin. A few weeks ago, in one of our reports , we told you how the criminal association has managed to penetrate the territory of Turin, managing different types of illicit traffics despite the presence of police and 'Ndrangheta. What is really the situation in the city? And what are the measures taken by law enforcement agencies to counter the Nigerian mafia? We asked Marco Martino, the first manager of the Turin Mobile Squad. So many themes are addressed between analysis of the phenomenon, solutions and an unsettling idea: a possible weapon to fight the foreign mafia could be Italian police but of Nigerian origin.

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Doctor Martino, good morning. Is the Nigerian mafia really an emerging criminal association even here in Turin?
Like all criminal associations, even Nigerian crime in the recent past has had a mafia-like character. The Turin Public Prosecutor's Office, which has coordinated the investigations with the Carabinieri, the Guardia di Finanza and the State Police, has already succeeded in moving the protests of mafia-type associations to groups of young Nigerian cultists. We have arrived at requests for indictment with convictions since 2009. It means that for the city of Turin, a sedentary presence of criminals of certain characteristics has been proven. The Nigerian cultists controlled a certain type of territory.

Can you delineate it?
In some cases they were small areas of city streets where they managed to exercise control over some illegal activities such as drug dealing and prostitution. In other areas they devoted themselves to extortion to traders of their own ethnic group. The investigations allowed to gather very solid sources of evidence and to challenge the 416 bis. The processes are done by identifying the subjects and giving them a role. All this must be ascertained through test sources, telephone tapping and so on.

Prostitutes near Piazza Massaua
Prostitute near Piazza Massaua (© Diario di Torino)

Begging, prostitution, drugs: what are the businesses on which the power of Nigerian organized crime is founded?
I confirm that the drug is a feature of primary importance, as well as the exploitation of prostitution. The mafia organization does not deal with managing the single prostitute, but manages the proceeds that come from the maman (former prostitutes who now coordinate the younger girls). In the recent past, they dealt with trafficking, managing the subjects that flow into migratory flows from Libya. There are people who despite having lost contact with a referent in Italy, continue to be part of the criminal organization for fear of physical repercussions in their country, against family members. Let's take an example that concerns women: who arrives here knows that he has to contact a specific person to re-establish contacts. They contact a contact person who then takes them to the maman on duty, that takes care of assigning it a pitch. From there the exploitation begins, you have to reach 25,000 / 30,000 euros to repay the costs of the route. I also confirm threats with voodoo rituals.

The phenomenon of begging is more visible, especially in everyday life
Yes it is true, if the perception is increased means that they are more present in front of supermarkets or commercial structures of the city but does not mean that every black stranger outside a supermarket is exploited by the mafia Nigerian. In some places this type of illicit business is the prerogative of Nigerian criminals. The investigations will allow us to demonstrate if and how this sad phenomenon is still current or not.

Man forced to beg: always present the baseball cap
Man forced to beg: always present the baseball cap (© Diario di Torino)

Applies to the Nigerian mafia, applies to all foreign mafias. How difficult is it to punish the subjects who are part of it with article 416 bis? What are the biggest difficulties?
The 416 bis is a typically Italian crime that does not find parallel and similar regulatory positions in foreign legislation. The legislator has evolved the legislation, also identifying foreign mafias, so that any criminal organization that uses the intimidation of its power, control of a portion of territory, omerta and fear must be punished louder. There is difficulty both for Italians and for foreigners: narrow dialects are difficult to interpret for the collection of evidence sources. A narrow Calabrian, Sicilian or Apulian dialect is sometimes just as difficult to translate and turn into a valid document in the degrees of judgment. It is not enough to say "he behaved like a mafioso". The only access to the postponement phase, is a very advanced phase in the criminal trial. The sources of evidence must allow us to reach a stage of indictment, I assure you that it is not at all simple. Today the use of test sources, interpreters and technology help us but the technology is also used by criminals: people who use technologies of very few euros that make the work of law enforcement difficult.

You have an idea of ​​\ u200b \ u200bthat relationships and balances there are between the Nigerian organized criminal association and the "homegrown" mafias , I think of the 'Ndrangheta for example.
The control of the territory in certain areas of northern Italy can not be said to be only the prerogative of the Italian mafia, which is why there is more penetration of foreign criminal organizations. There are very large areas where fortunately there is no control of organized crime. Where the local mafia is strong, it is more difficult for foreign mafias to expand. In Turin, for example, the Romanians (the gang of Brigada), or the Chinese, or the Russian mafia, more difficult to penetrate the territory. The fact remains that, in 2018, the points of contact between mafias are now around the world.

The arrest of a member of the Nigerian mafia
The arrest of a member of the Nigerian mafia (© Carabinieri)

But how did the Nigerian mafia become powerful? What is its characteristic?
It is not simple, certainly the Nigerians have a large distribution in the world. They know how to relate and settle in the most disparate points on the planet, a bit like the 'Ndrangheta has done with homegrown emigration. We must remember that we are a country of migrants, we have exported work and criminals who in certain areas have made their fortune, but have also brought problems. Nigerian migrants have exported forms of crime, thanks to the ease of mobilization. It is difficult to eradicate them because they are very impenetrable. If they are violent? Of course yes, in the word "mafia" violence is inherent. If it does not put fear it would not be a mafia phenomenon.

Can we say that in the last period the attention of the police to the Nigerian mafia has increased?
The attention has not increased, because all the mafias are subjected to great control and that is why we do not forget the "our" mafia: continue to be present and subject to investigation.

Is it possible to imagine a Turin free from the Nigerian mafia, but more generally free from any type of mafia regardless of nationality?
It is a constantly evolving society, characterized by ever-changing criminal phenomena. I hope for a more inclusive and updated Turin from the point of view of the police. The secret will be in the middle. Maybe with the police that can benefit from the collaboration of Italian policemen but of foreign origin, which may be a key: when Italian criminals have conquered American cities like Chicago, New York, etc., the most effective forms of conflict came from groups of police made by second-generation Italian / Americans. Agents who thought like them, knew dialects, customs and customs. Imagine if we had 5/6 policemen Italian citizens but of Nigerian origin, we could carry out our task with an ability to analyze and know the deepest phenomenon. In Turin we have a lot of Calabrian policemen, just because in the Mobile Squad we needed to translate phone calls and dialogues of the 'Ndrangheta. This can be a recipe.

Marco Martino was born in Rome in 1968. He graduated in Law and Political Science, has been deputy Police Commissioner of State Police since 2001. Since 1993 he has resided in Turin and is currently deputy manager of the Mobile Squad - Director of the Organized Crime Section.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/gen...849eed1-fbd6-4669-b207-fb4ff973b950.html

Alleged Nigerian mafia gang busted

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...a-reveals-voodoo-rituals-sexual-slavery/

Italy: Nigerian Mafia Bust Reveals Sexual Slavery, Voodoo Rituals

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/06/26/nigerian-mafia-holds-sway-in-italy/

Nigerian mafia holds sway in Italy

lol they have really an hardcore for them nowadays, they are overrated like no other before probably

Nigerian Mafia, 10 stops in Palermo ANSA Editorial Staff
11 July 2019
11:57
NEWS
Claned 'Viking' clan with branches throughout Italy

New blow to the Nigerian mafia in Palermo. During the "Disconnection zone" operation, the State Police carried out a detention order against ten Nigerian citizens, issued by the Anti-Mafia District Attorney's Office. The investigations of the Flying Squad, which follow the "Black Ax" and "No fly zone" operations, confirmed that the Nigerian mafia is rooted and infiltrated into the city's criminal economic fabric. With today's operation the investigators have vanquished a criminal gang named "Viking", well structured throughout the national territory, which had its base of operations in the Palermo district of Ballarò, characterized by a hierarchically organized structure, with a strong capacity intimidatin

From what I know about US news sources Breitbart isn’t real news and is extreme right wing fake news. I probably wouldn’t post them as a source as they aren’t credible.

I am very impressed of how knowledgeable you are of US news continue to listen to BBC.

Thanks ciment! You can thank Steve Bannon’s brief Whitehouse stint for my knowledge of breitbart. I follow US Politics quite strongly, find it fascinating

The “mooch” had a funny quote about Steve Bannon sucking his own d*** which made me laugh. I digress

It is fascinating. You can't make this shit up.

I see you enjoyed it but why are you discussing your sex life on this post ?


This post is about Nigerian Mafia in Italy. I don't give a shit about whether you like Breitbart or not.

I must advise you that SC put a ban on political discussions. Please understand, I cannot and do not want to engage in politics with you.

Why would u even start political discussion in this thread? You have other forums that discuss politics,this is not place for it.

Ciment just posted an article,i don't think anyone cares if its "extreme right wing fake news".

And yeah,not a single news sources is 100% reliable,they all publish what they are told to.

Thanks Strax , I really appreciate it !

Fair enough about the political discussions point happy to delete, just recognised the source and commented. Maybe a bit off topic to be fair. Wasn’t trying to provoke and i enjoy some of your posts. Above is an uncalled for, and weak insult or 2 lol. Pathetic as i wasn’t/and am not going there with you son.

SC pls delete any posts where I have been out of line. Not my MO at all, just read the thread for first time and noticed the source and the strong headlines about immigrants and commented. Cheers.

I am willing to forget all this and for the record I also post CNN,NBC,ABC and many other news source.

Already forgotten Ciment. And as stated I enjoy reading your posts - maybe couldve started with that on the original post if you thought I was trying to get at you. I enjoy reading stories here, no arguing on an online forum obvs. Happy Friday

Well whoever read your posts know that you post everything from CNN/BBC to some random news websites,you just post news/interesting articles,its on us to believe them or not.

Nigerian Mafia, dismantled clan
Police operations, detentions and searches

(ANSA) - BOLOGNA, 18 JULY - A clan of Nigerians sharing a large part of the drug and prostitution market, in Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna, was dismantled by the police of Turin and Bologna during two ongoing operations by the early hours of this morning. The cult leaders Maphite have also ended up in handcuffs, accused of deciding on new initiations, managing prostitution, and maintaining relations with other criminal organizations and managing drug dealing in city squares.
Over 15 people have been arrested by the DDA of Bologna and the mafia association is disputed.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/2019...f-african-drug-mafia-taking-over-sweden/

Black Axe': Reports of African Drug Mafia Taking Over Sweden

Absolute bullshit

Nigerian Mafia whistleblower dies suspiciously in prison

Italy’s first-ever member of the Nigerian mob to give testimony of the inner workings of the foreign criminal subculture passed away in Palermo’s Pagliarelli Penitentiary.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.pa...-denuncia-mafia-nigeriana-black-axe.html

The illness in prison and the hospitalization: 29-year-old who denounced the Nigerian mafia has died.

After the brutal aggression he suffered in 2015, he decided to collaborate, allowing him to identify some members of the Black Ax. Since last July, he was in prison following a police takedown that wiped out the Vikings, Black Ax’s rivals group wiped out. Autopsy arranged


Editorial board
7 October 2019
 
He died in hospital from the effects of a complication related to his diabetes. The 29-year-old Nigerian Emeka Don died yesterday morning at the Civic where he had been escorted and transferred from Pagliarelli prison. His name had already appeared in local newspapers because with his statements he revealed the identity of some members of the Black Ax, the Nigerian mafia that even had a base in Palermo until the police intervened. Last July he ended up behind bars - awaiting trial - on the charge of having been part of the Viking, the rival gang dismantled by the Flying Squad.

Emeka Don had suffered a violent attack a few meters from Porta Sant’Agata, between Corso Tukory and the Ballarò market. After that incident the investigators began to frame a series of information that, crossed with the declarations of the "repentant", allowed in November 2016 to stop sixteen men and a woman in all Italy. Among these there was also the presumed head of the criminal organization rooted throughout the peninsula, called "Head of the zone", the first formal charge of the association.

Last July a second blitz was triggered which led to the arrest of ten people. Among these was also Emeka Don (photo attached), detained from that day at the Pagliarelli prison and waiting to be tried by the Court of Palermo. To dispel any doubts about the death of the 29-year-old Nigerian - as also requested by family members - the magistrates of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate have ordered the autopsy to be performed in the next few days at the Paolo Giaccone Institute of Legal Medicine, at the Policlinico.

Any more information?

Just google his name. Some other articles in Italian will pop up.

He was interviewed by VICE news and appeared on a short documentary about both Sicilian and Nigerian organized crime involvement in the migrant crisis.



Basically he flipped on the Black Ax, probably that spared him from being deported, but then joined the Vikings, a rival Nigerian posse, and was arrested last July and ended up in prison, where he died.

family and some friends from the local left-wing migrant coops say that he was actually killed. I doubt that autopsy results will clear this up. He was sick

For those who can’t/won’t google:

Palermo. the first witness against the Black Ax dies in the hospital

Officially he died of a hypoglycemic crisis, but the circumstances are still to be clarified: the Dda has ordered an autopsy

by TULLIO FILIPPONE - October 07, 2019

Officially he died of a hypoglycemic crisis, but the circumstances are still to be clarified so much that the Dda, this morning, ordered an autopsy. Yesterday morning, 29-year-old Emeka Don, a Nigerian who was detained at Pagliarelli, disappeared. Investigators and the Nigerian community know each other well as the first witness against the Nigerian mafia. The man, between 2014 and 2016 had told prosecutors the violent attack suffered in Ballarò by some members of the Black Ax, one of the most powerful groups of the Nigerian mafia in Italy.

His testimony and the scars reported following the episode, had been published by the international press that had told of the presence of the Nigerian mafia in Palermo. Then, last July, he was jailed in the "Disconnection zone" blitz, accused of being part of the Viking, another rival criminal group of the Black Axs.

Yesterday, he died at the Civico hospital, where he had been transferred last Saturday. A story that does not convince the representatives of the multicultural circle Arci Ikenga, who yesterday gathered in a garrison facing the Flying Squad. "We want to know what happened - says Frank Obidike, representative of the circle - for us it is really anomalous, how do you die in prison for such a disease? We know that in prison there were people who wanted him dead for what he testified ".

https://www.google.com/amp/s/palerm...imone_contro_la_black_axe-237908844/amp/

Thanks.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/tvblackbox.com.au/programs/2020/3/11/promo-will-the-nigerian-mafia-be-as-hard-to-root-out-as-the-local-mob-on-foreign-correspondent%3fformat=amp

Will the Nigerian mafia be as hard to root out as the local mob on FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Foreign Correspondent: THE NEW MAFIA
Sex, drugs and people smuggling. Emma Alberici braves a no-man’s land near Naples to report on a ruthless new crime group that’s moving in on the local mafia. Will the Nigerian mafia be as hard to root out as the local mob?

“When you enter the organisation, you cannot get out other than by death.”

Italy’s top mafia investigator

The mafia is one of Italy’s most famous international business brands, with an estimated annual turnover of $250 billion a year. But its market share is being challenged by a group of ruthless new players.

Foreign Correspondent’s Emma Alberici investigates the growing power of Nigerian organised crime in the birthplace of the Italian mafia.

The director of Italy’s anti-mafia agency says Nigerian crime is highly structures and dangerous:

“It has many similar traits to Italian mafia – its oaths, its sense of belonging, the capacity to coerce, the code of silence…even the local mafia fear them.”

Specialists in trafficking humans for sexual slavery and drug running, the Nigerians are now being allowed to run their operations in return for giving the Italian mafia a cut.

A former prostitute, trafficked from Nigeria, tells us:

“There’s no pity. If you misbehave…or you can’t continue anymore, they will bring their gun and shoot you.”

We investigate the two main hubs for Nigerian organised crime in Italy.

North of Naples, Alberici visits Castel Volturno, an almost lawless coastal town, abandoned by the local Camorra Mafia and by the state. Here, the Nigerian Mafia is left alone to use this once “Mafioso Riviera” as a hub for its European operations.

In Sicily, the mafia’s birthplace, we go undercover to expose prostitution and drug houses and catch up with the man named by investigators as one of the Nigerian Mafia’s kingpins.

At a secret location, we speak to Roberto Saviano, one of the world’s most famous mafia whistle-blowers. He lost his freedom 13 years ago after revealing the sordid workings of the Camorra mafia in Naples.

Now living under permanent police guard, Saviano explains the role Nigerian organised crime plays in Italy’s homegrown mafia.

To stay silent, he says, is to be complicit.

it seems black axes were wiped out with just a couple of indictments at the point that the bosses in nigeria said to close the sections in italy

https://www.4bc.com.au/podcast/grow...nised-crime-threatens-the-italian-mafia/

Growing power of Nigerian organised crime threatens the Italian mafia

i think the nigerians are the least of their problems... even the government can't defeat italian mob, imagine how threatened it can be by a small foreign criminal group withouth connections with politicians and policemen

The "Nigerian OC threatening Italian OC in Italy" articles is a load of pompous media bullshit.

Not denying the craftsmanship of the Nigerians, but in no way shape or form do they form a threat to the indigenous Italian networks.

This is complete bullsh*t

Why would the Italians feel threatened? The Nigerians do their own thing human trafficking, pimping, drugs and pay a % to the Italians.

I think the documentary is propraganda for anti immigration. Make the population of italy fear the nigerians, to make them look as bad and worse then the italian mafia.

But, italian mafia is one of the steongest, if not the strongest organized crime in the world. Sure now, there is many group that can go tomwar with the italian mafia. But not in italy, not in there home turf.

Nigerian Mafia in Italy now “on the same level” as the Camorra, police say
Police in Italy last week arrested over 40 people connected to the Nigerian Mafia in Italy and charged them with Mafia association, human trafficking, drug trafficking and distribution, and running a prostitution ring. According to police, the Nigerian crime groups are now “on the same level” as the notorious Camorra. More: http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...ow-on-the-same-level-as-the-camorra-poli

if nigerian mafia was really on the same level of camorra there would be over 100 pages about them in the latest dia report and not only 5, i doubt dia said it maybe same newspaper

Nowhere near the level of the Camorra in Italy.

Those "foreign crime threat" articles the media pushes never fail to make me lol.

I dont think that the Nigerians are at the same level in Italy for the contacts in politics, police etc. But in a street level, they are getting closer and closer. The Camorra groups probably must think more now if they want to attack an nigerian groups, knowing they could probably fight back.
When you think about it, young italian kids gave the Camorra alot of problems, and the Nigerians are probably stronger than those teens. So probably the Nigerians are on the same level
Than the Camorra on a street level.

if you look at the indictments there is not comparison, in 2020 there was only 1 indictment against nigerian mob and at least 20 against camorra and if you look at street level arrests the same, in naples area only there are more random criminals arrested than nigerians nationwide

Thats for sure, they are in Italy. No organisation will ever surpassed the italian groups on their own turf. But O think that the media are only saying that foreign organized crime groups now are talking buisness more equaly in Italy. While before, the italians were mostly doing what they want with the nigerians for exemple. Now in 2020, its another game, because the nigerians has alot of numbers, and money. So they can reply and give the Camorra problems. And the old heads in the Camorra knows, that war is bad for buisness, even if they know
They would probably win at the end.

Give it another 10 years and they won't even talk about "Nigerian organized crime in Italy" anymore. The media always makes out these "foreign crime threats" to be a bigger deal than it actually is.
It's always a moment in time and that moment will always pass.

The Nigerians are pretty sophisticated but they are spread throughout Europe not just Italy.

It is not another game , its same game for past 10 years or so. They do what they are allowed to do and pay % for that. If they tried taking over anything both organized crime and police would crush them in less than a year. No one wants foreign organized crime groups running anything.

Its obvious nigerian will never run organized crime in Italy. Lets not be dumb here.
Nigerians are getting stronger every year, and there position in the criminal world is not the same that it was 10 years before. They probably have more power in Italy then ot was in 10 years.
I know most of y’all are fascinated by the mob, and I get it, but the criminal world change in every country.
Italian crime groups will always be number one in Italy, sumply because its Italy. But foreign groups have more power than before in Italy, and we are not only talking about Nigerians.

Thats how it is with the criminal world. In the US, Canada, France, Australia etc

Also.
The news are probably making dumb titles for there newspaper, cuz they know people will talk more about an title about a foreign groups taking over, even if its not true.
Nigerians are just getting stronger and stronger but are not taking over.

Europe is having alot of immigrants, specially from Africa. And Italy are just doing articles showing immigrants in a bad lights. I’m from Canada, and we saw that here also, with jamaicans, haitians, hispanics, somali and in the near future, we will see more articles on middle eastern groups saying they are taking over, in Montreal. And in Toronto, its alot about Somali groups. But its just to sale newspapers.
But in reality, they are just getting stronger and are becoming a factor in the chess game of organized crime.

SMH

yeah that nigerians are stronger than 10 years ago and the strongest among foreign gangs it could be true, but they are not even close to camorra or any other italian organized crime group and its enough to read the latest dia report to know it, the camorra has stroing connections with politicians and public oifficials, police and carabinieri, it infiltrates heavily several economic sectors across italy, the nigerians are basically gangs of pimps and drug dealers at most, more organized than others but that's all

It is totally different thing in US,Canada than in Europe. US and Canada doesn't really have domestic organized crime groups , i mean they do , but at the end they are mostly foreign. Also its totally different thing in Eastern & Western Europe , here in Eastern Europe , organized crime is working for the state and secret service , on the riots we had few weeks ago , there were organized crime members beating up protesters together with the police , they are seen having dinner with president's son and so on. While in Russia , organized crime is literally the state

Those "protesters" should keep their business where it's supposed to be. Most of them act like a bunch of loose cannon snotty kids and they spread like wildfire.

I got no issue with anti-racism protests and marches; I even agree with it. And I'm kinda fed up with these press articles like "Nigerians running rampant in Italy" that are hellbent on painting every immigrant in a bad light. There's a lot of fairly recent immigrants - from Senegal, Ghana, Bangladesh, Nepal, etc... - over here in Belgian "big" cities that are running local businesses. They work, they pay taxes and they actively stimulate the economy. No issue with this at all.

In recent times though there is the tendency that a segment of spoiled (mostly white) brats are feeling bored and think they should go revolution on everyone. Everybody who doesn't align with their views for the complete 100% is labeled a "nazi" or a "fascist", never mind the fact that none of those misguided rascals can even form a proper definition of any of those terms. I'm fed up with them. Myself and more than a few people I know are waiting for them to bring their horseshit to our doorsteps. They're gonna get KO'd faster than they can scream "Viva la revolución".

And don't think only a growing part of the native population are fed up with their crap. I'd LOVE to seem some of those wannabe anarchists go conduct their business at a local area filled with Italian, Turkish, Greek, Moroccan or Albanian businesses. They're gonna wish they would've stayed in their sheltered place playing PS4 games at their parents' home in a nice residential community.

italy is different, the north can be similar to other european countries or usa/canada/australia but the south is another world, organized crime is extremely entrenched

A 31-year-old Nigerian was killed in Castel Volturno (Caserta) with gunshots; a 37-year-old compatriot was injured in the lower limbs.
The Dda of Naples is also interested in the matter. The modalities of the crime would suggest a settling of scores between criminal gangs for the management of drug dealing or prostitution; this is one of the tracks followed by the carabinieri of Mondragone, who are also trying to understand if the crime could have matured in the context of conflicts between Nigerian crime and the Italian clans, or in the African universe itself, with the group of assassins "Hired" to kill the 31-year-old.

Casalesi??

Nigerian crime groups been active in Italy since the late 80s or so and been established networks in that country. What's relative is the influx of more immigrants & their criminal fraternities.

Nope. American OC groups are majority american then the rest is foreign crime groups.

yes probably, in the last few days there have been two other camorra-related murders, although i don't think they are all connected

Italian-American organized crime is still most powerful in the US , u also have Mexicans and so on. American organized crime groups never reached levels like Cosa Nostra did in the east. Things are totally different here in Europe , especially in Italy where organized crime groups control every aspect of crime. Here in Eastern Europe , its mostly state controlled.

I'm only speaking for the U.S not europe. Italian American OC is powerful in their geographic territories not the entire country.

the DDA is investigating the murder, so it was a Casalesi hit 100%

Nigerian mafia: 70 arrests between Turin and Ferrara, among the bosses an afro-beat deejay

New blow to the Nigerian mafia, with two parallel operations between Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna and over seventy custody measures that have dismantled the 'cult', as the criminal groups are called, 'Vikings-Arobaga' in Ferrara and 'Valhalla Marine' in Turin.

The two organizations, according to police investigators, were closely connected, with strong dependence on the parent company in Nigeria and joints in other Italian provinces, in particular in Veneto (Padua, Treviso and Venice) but also in Lombardy. Among the main characteristics of the groups, which led to the accusation of the crime of mafia association for many of the suspects, the marked hierarchies, the pyramid structure, the constraints of subjugation, the ability to intimidate, the obligation of secrecy and to speak in code, the tribal rites of affiliation, the duty to periodically pay sums and the will to prevail over the other brotherhoods of compatriots for the control of the territory.

They controlled and managed the street trade in drugs and the exploitation of prostitution of Nigerian women in various areas.

these guys are becoming strong, i thought they were overrated like the albanians

16 arrested as Trento drugs gang smashed
Nigerian pushers 'commuted from Verona to Trento' say police

(ANSA) - TRENTO, JAN 12 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested 16 people as they smashed a Nigerian mafia drugs ring in the northern city of Trento.
Police also carried out 20 raids in the regions of Trentino, Veneto and Lombardy in the operation, codenamed 'Underground'.

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30 arrests as Nigerian mafia hit in 14 provinces
Head of 'major organisation' among those nabbed

(ANSA) - L'AQUILA, APR 26 - Italian police on Monday made 30 arrests in an operation targeting Italy's Nigerian mafia in 14 provinces across the country.
The Black Axe operation stems from a probe in L'Aquila, the capital of the Abruzzo region.
Those arrested have been charged with mafia association, drug trafficking, illegal immigration, prostitution, 'romantic fraud', Internet fraud and money laundering by buying and selling Bitcoins.
They face almost 100 charges, police said.
The head of one of the Nigerian mafia's biggest gangs was arrested in the op, police said.
"We have apprehended the leader of a major organisation," said police.
Police carried out some 25 searches of domestic premises in the operation. (ANSA).

Like Roberto Saviano said the Nigerian criminal network is organised and sophisticated. The Nigerian mafia has come to Italy with a speed and force that's stunned even local mafia bosses, he says.

Nigerian mafia hide cash in pasta packets
And wheelie handles, to invest in property back home

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 22 - Italy's Nigerian mafia hid some of the proceeds of its vast Italian prostitution rackets in pasta packets and the handles of wheelie luggage to send the cash back to Nigeria and invest it in property there, Italian police said Monday.
Police from Cagliari arrested 40 people in the probe.
They placed 120 people under investigation.
Italy's Nigerian mafia specializes in prostitution and trafficking women.
It has grown almost as rich and powerful as the country's three main home-grown mafias, 'Ndrangheta from Calabria, Cosa Nostra from Sicily and the Camorra from Campania, police say. (ANSA).

the vast majority of foreigners arrested for mafia-type association are nigerians

Black Axe: How Nigeria’s Mafia group went global and became an international criminal powerhouse https://gangstersinc.org/blog/black-axe-how-nigeria-s-mafia-group-went-global-and-became-an-int

the shooters came from Naples and they were members of the Sorianiello camorra clan of Rione Traiano; according to police the nigerian stole drug that belonged to the clan

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'Most-wanted' trafficking fugitive extradited to Italy from Nigeria

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Blitz against the Nigerian mafia in Italy and abroad; police arrested 16 members of the Eiye cult based in Turin on charges of mafia-type association, extortion, robbery and drug trafficking. The precautionary measures would concern people suspected of representing the top of the national level of the organization chart, directly in charge of the new affiliations and the management of drug dealing in the various city squares.

Turin: operation Bird Man, 11 arrests in the ring of the Nigerian mafia

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Nigerian mafia in Turin, the pentito: "Enlisted in a barrel while I asked for help on the residence permit"(handle)
The Mobile investigation, a man speaks: "I was hoping for help with the documents: they blindfolded us and beat us for three quarters of an hour"

“I became an Eiye because a friend of mine tricked me. When my residence permit expired he took me to an acquaintance of his who said he would help me. I was forced to join. Hardly anyone does it voluntarily because it is known that it is very dangerous". These are the words of a repentant, a former bigwig of the Turin cell of the Eiye, a cult of the Nigerian mafia. The man has become a key witness in the latest investigation coordinated by the Turin prosecutor's office, which led the court investigating judge to issue 16 precautionary custody measures in prison for mafia association. The lawyers Manuel Perga, Nadia Garis and Antonio Bernardo are part of the defense team of the arrested. The investigations were conducted by the mobile team of the police station documenting the brutal violence of the clan, the bloody rites of affiliation,
«That day I arrived in corso Giulio Cesare, almost at the corner with via Feletto, and I found many Nigerians, only men - continues the super witness - They blindfolded us with a piece of cloth and started beating us with sticks, continuously for 30 -45 minutes - Then a voice said to stop, they took off our blindfolds, but they told us to keep our eyes closed and they made me swear to become a member of the supreme Eiye brotherhood and keep its secrets until I die». One cannot leave the cult unless dead, is the same formula used by another pentito heard as a witness in one of the trials that in the last six years have tried to stop the action of the Nigerian mafia in Turin. The cell is nationally known and recognized by the Aviary, the "aviary" in the jargon of the clan, i.e. the heart of the Nigeria-based organization. Turin is a city that appeals to those who want to make a career in the clan and raises rivalries when a new boss has to be appointed: In Turin, the heads of the other Piedmontese provinces are decided, such as Asti and Vercelli, where the "Nests" have too few affiliates to have weight. Those who have a role, such as the master of ceremonies who take care of affiliations, live protected by three bodyguards.
"The organization is based on lies and deception - adds the former boss - They say they are a charitable organization capable of providing anyone with a home, work and protection". In exchange they demand obedience and money: «The money was collected in the meetings but if the Ebaka (the head) was very active, it was he who went around to get the money. Prostitutes controlled by the organization who didn't earn enough were threatened, those who didn't pay were beaten. I didn't have a job and therefore I didn't have any money to pay». What was the money for? No Eiye is rich in Italy. "We all send money to Nigeria and live almost in poverty." Turin's income finances - according to the witness - the wars between rival clans in Nigeria.

MAFIAS
Does the Nigerian mafia not exist? Here are sentences and testimonies that demonstrate the opposite

An article from "Bloomberg Businessweek", taken up by "Internazionale", tells of a controversial document seized in 2018 and foreshadows a judicial persecution against the brotherhoods established among the migrant communities in Italy. But already since 2009, numerous sentences have established that Eiye, Black Ax and Maphite act as mafia organisations.

by Giuseppe Pipitone and Mario Portanova | 16 SEPTEMBER 2023
There is an air of denial about the Nigerian mafia. Bloomberg Businessweek has published an investigation according to which the accusations of mafia association brought against members of the brotherhoods, or cults, present in Italy are based on an artificial document: the " green bible ", a text seized in Rome by the Italian police in March 2018, written as a sort of criminal program of the Maphite , one of the Nigerian brotherhoods present in Italy. The article was featured on the cover of Internazionale , which in its internal headline presents it as follows: "The existence of this mafia has been demonstrated with a less than credible document ". The article is signed by Zach Campbelland Lorenzo D'Agostino . The latter is an Italian journalist who at the end of August published a series of tweets entitled " The invention of the Nigerian mafia " (in which among other things he targeted an investigation by our monthly FQ MillenniuM from November 2018) .

“The year before his discovery, no Nigerian had been charged under Italian anti-mafia laws. The following year, however, 154 Nigerians were tried,” we read. In the long investigation, not a single judicial document is cited against alleged cultists in which it is demonstrated that the "green bible" was used as the only "smoking gun" to send them to prison. But we read: “The green bible has become the most important document of the war declared by the Italian government against the alleged criminal organizations in which thousands of Nigerian immigrants are allegedly involved. Among these there would also be one called Maphite. For years in Italy law enforcement officials, the press and right-wing politicians have described Maphite and other similar groups as a sort of Cosa Nostra of the 2000s”.

In the text, the often rambling and xenophobic theses of the right in government today are arbitrarily associated with those of prosecutors and the press, as parts of a single campaign of defamation of migrants. D'Agostino published his denialist tweets in the wake of the controversy surrounding the book Nigerian Mafia by Giorgia Meloni , Alessandro Meluzzi and Valentina Mercurio, where the mafia has little or nothing to do with it, but considerations are wasted on African immigrants as "degraded beings and cursed” dedicated to “human sacrifices” and so on. The book is from 2019, but has resurfaced in the news in the wake of the Vannacci case .

SENTENCES AND REGRETS (NOT INFORMANTS) – The facts, however, say otherwise. The investigations and convictions for mafia association against dozens of members of the brotherhoods occurred well before the discovery of the "green bible". Also for the Maphites , who according to Bloomberg Businessweek "would be" one of the "alleged" Nigerian criminal organizations in Italy. On 12 January 2018, therefore two months before the seizure of the "green bible", the Turin court convicted 21 members of the Maphite and Eiye, one of the main cults present in Italy, of mafia association . On November 19, 2020, the sentence became final, confirming the mafia association (naturally, without any reference to the “green bible”).

The first conviction in court for a Nigerian "cult" dates back to 2009 - nine years before the seizure of the "green bible" - when four members of the Eiye were convicted in the first instance in Brescia . In 2010, again in Turin , it fell to 36 members of Eiye and Black Axe . Relevant, in this regard, is what happens in Palermo , the city symbolizing the mafia association par excellence, where 17 people were arrested in 2016 : they were all accused of being part of the same Black Axe , active in the historic Ballarò district .

Among those sent to prison is Austine Johnbull , who according to the article becomes the “first Nigerian immigrant and fraternity member to become a police informant .” But Johnbull is not an informant, that is, an investigator's source who for a fee reveals information under the guarantee of anonymity . The reality is that the Nigerian is in all respects a repentant, that is, a collaborator of justice : he tells everything he knows to the prosecutors, including the crimes he has committed, and on the basis of his declarations he is admitted to a protection program . Today he lives in a secret locationwith a new identity and the same thing happened to his family members, who were transferred from Nigeria to Italy to guarantee their safety .

ACQUITTED AND CONVICTED: THE PALERMO CASE – Johnbull's statements led to the opening of two trials: the first was celebrated with the abbreviated trial and led to 12 final convictions and 2 acquittals; the second with the ordinary procedure ended with four acquittals , while the second appeal trial is underway for another accused. The Bloomberg Businessweek articlefocuses only on these latest sentences, without underlining that they were issued due to the old lack of evidence (according to paragraph 2 of article 530 of the criminal procedure code). He then explains that those acquittals came “also because of Johnbull 's testimonywas not very credible ." All true: the judges at the trial did not believe the Nigerian repentant. But Johnbull's statements had already been considered genuine and reliable by the judges of the trial celebrated with the abbreviated trial because they were "characterized by extreme specificity " and the absence "of intrinsic contradictions ". “Moreover, there are countless references to Johnbull's statements made by the defense itself, which in such cases consider the collaborator fully reliable ,” wrote the Palermo Assize Court of Appeal in 2020.

In other words: even the lawyers of the defendants had considered the Nigerian repentant reliable . In those same reasons the magistrates also recalled how the presence in Palermo "of an association of Nigerian origin called Black Ax whose members have committed very serious crimes against the person by making use of the so-called mafia method" had already been established by a final sentence . It is the story relating to an attempted murder with an ax carried out by Johnbull and two other members of Black Axe.

NIGERIAN MAFIA OR NIGERIAN CRIME? –The long article by Campbell and D'Agostino mentions in a few generic lines the sentences prior to the discovery of the "green bible", while valorising some recent sentences of the opposite nature. But how did the judges manage to condemn dozens of cult members for mafia association, all the way to the Supreme Court, without being able to rely on the document that the article presents as fundamental evidence, even if of dubious origin? Those investigations and sentences documented the responsibility of members of the cults cited in violence, torture, drug trafficking and dealing, and human trafficking. And they sanctioned its " mafia " not on the basis of more or less truculent "bibles" or rites of affiliation, but on what is established in article 416 bisof the Italian penal code: a criminal group is mafia if it is able, with its power of intimidation, to subjugate and influence the community of reference.

D'Agostino explains it in a box, but glosses over the last paragraph, introduced in 2008 and very relevant on this issue, according to which 416 bis also applies "to other associations, including foreign ones, which, making use of the intimidating force of the associative bond pursue objectives corresponding to those of mafia-type associations". It means in a nutshell that even members of organizations that are much less structured and organized than our "traditional" mafias ( Cosa Nostra , 'Ndrangheta , Camorra ) can be convicted of mafia charges. The Court of Cassation reiterated this with ruling 24536/2015: 416 bis is extended to the so-called " small mafias".", which despite not having the weight of the "large" ones, borrow their way of acting on a more limited scale.

WHAT EMERGES FROM THE TRIALS – This is exactly what emergedfrom all the pre-Green Bible trials . The Nigerian cults did not limit themselves to managing trafficking, but tried to impose their law on their immigrant compatriots in the cities where they operated. Let's cite some examples from the documents. “In Turin all Nigerians are afraid of them. It's like Italians when they hear about mafiosi", a witness, beaten for drug matters, recorded in the trial against Eiye and Black Axe, where among other things it emerged that the members themselves defined the cults as "a mafia ”. Various proceedings revealed that many Nigerian immigrants were forced to join(paying an entrance fee) to the sound of threats and violence. “If they are cultists it is dangerous, because they are going to kill my family,” explained one of the witnesses called by the Palermo magistrates.

There are many testimonies on the intimidating power of cults, strengthened by the fear of retaliation against relatives who remained in Nigeria , by the affiliates of the " mother houses ". It is thanks to this intimidating power that cults manage affairs in Italy too, as many investigations reveal. In Turin, the area of ??the Dora station "belonged" to the Maphites, where no one else could sell drugs without permission and without paying a percentage. In Bologna the Maphites extorted the wealthiest members of the Nigerian community, none of whom ever went to the police. The winning cult “wins control of people in every branch of human activity", a witness in the Turin proceedings of 2018 puts on record. Still regarding the validity of 416 bis, in the 2010 sentence it is specified that the cults involved "certainly did not intend to extend their influences to Italian citizens, but simply within the context of Nigerian community".

RELATIONSHIPS WITH Cosa Nostra – The Palermo ruling expressly says that the Black Ax constituted an “ anti-State ” (yes, it reminds us of something) that imposed rules on the Nigerian community – starting with silence – and hierarchies, for example in regulation of debts and credits. A management of the territory that led Nigerian criminals to have contact with members of Cosa Nostra . Porta Nuova boss Giovanni Di Giacomo and his brother Giuseppe talked about it already in 2013, in an intercepted conversation: they underlined that these are people active in hashish dealing. And that, despite being " fuddigni ", that is, a little crazy from their point of view, they knew how to behave and brought "respect ."

Years later, three justice collaborators belonging to the Sicilian Cosa Nostra ( Francesco Lombardo , Alfredo Geraci and Emanuele Cecala ) will talk about the relationships with Nigerians inside and outside penitentiaries. In fact, after a blitz in 2016, the mafia bosses of the Porta Nuova district (one of the most important in Palermo) had sent an order to the Pagliarelli prison : the Nigerians detained in their own sections (the High Security ones which house mainly mafiosi) they had to be respected and indeed it was necessary to " make oneself available ". The order came from the Ballarò gang and derived from the fact that the Nigerians were "used in drug trafficking ."

There had also been disagreements in the past due to the fact that Nigerians were selling marijuana at too low a price. The Ballarò mafiosi had ordered a series of punitive raids, which had stopped only when one of the Nigerians - Isiguzo Tochi Chima , currently on trial in the Appeal - had gone to talk to three members of Cosa Nostra gathered in a pub: from that moment it was decided that the Nigerians would sell marijuana "on their own" and hashish on behalf of the mafia family of central Palermo . This story is considered proven by the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Palermo which, however, does not consider it proof of the existence of an autonomous mafia association distinct fromCosa Nostra : on the contrary, according to the judges, it only proves that the Nigerians worked with the Sicilians in drug trafficking. In Ballarò there were no Nigerian mafiosi, but Nigerians who worked with the mafiosi.

GREEN BIBLE AND MAGICAL RITES – We cannot know whether the “ green bible ” is authentic or not. Bloomberg Businessweek 's investigationraises well-founded doubts, but fails to prove that the Maphites' explicit criminal program is a hoax. Some arguments used to dismantle it, however, are questionable. It is “a jumble of phrases copied from texts of criminal gangs in US prisons, phrases of famous bosses and films about the mafia, including The Godfather and Goodfellas ”, the journalists write. But in the same way the copy and paste could demonstrate the will of the authors, perhaps clumsy and naive, to give himself a mafia caliber. Even certain Camorra bosses ape gangster films, and the notes of The Godfather resounded at the famous funeral of Vittorio Casamonica in Rome. No one, however, has dreamed of diminishing the criminal depth of those involved because of this. On the contrary.

The article then jokes about the fact that Nigerian crime is associated with "witchcraft" and "magical rituals". Yet it is a reality told over the years by dozens and dozens of victims of trafficking, held in slavery even with the threat of voodoo rites considered, whether we like it or not, a concrete threat. The sentence of the Palermo preliminary hearing judge, Claudia Rosini , in 2018 also speaks of Black Ax not only as a mafia organization, but also as a "cult with religious and magical aspects linked to the tribal culture to which it belongs" .

THE TURIN CASE – Campbell and D'Agostino's article highlights some recent sentences that deny mafia association. Like the one in Turin, in which the "green bible" was actually used as a source of evidence, which concerns Osaze Osemwegie known as Caesar , a politician and government official arrested in 2019 in the Netherlands and extradited to Italy in 2020 as part of a new Maphite investigation. “Osemwegie was acquitted and has since been carrying out an international campaign to draw attention to miscarriages of justicein the trials against the brotherhood", the journalists write, "but on 30 June the Turin Court of Appeal overturned the first degree acquittal sentence, sentencing him to more than ten years in prison". For the record, at first instance Osemwegie was not "acquitted" at all, but sentenced, on 29 May 2021, to four years' imprisonment for "simple" , i.e. non-mafia, criminal association, with the aggravating circumstance of internationality .

Judge Roberta Cosentini writes in the sentence filed on July 15, 2021: “The defendants were certainly part of an association which, outwardly called the Green Circuit Association , showed its illegal face with the different name of 'Maphite' . This attempt at verbal camouflage was revealed by Osemwegie himself during the Bologna meeting in September 2013." This is a meeting at the Hotel Boscolo, recorded by the police and cited in the Bloomberg Newsweek article, where the Nigerian official who presides over it states: " And remember that we cannot beat you here, we can't bite you here (...), but we can go home and tell your mother and your father that you are creating problems in Italy and this is the reason why (...) we will arrest you . With the grace of the Lord, the police commission are our dear friends (…) so we will call them and say: 'This one is ruining our name in Italy, he must be detained and they will lock you up legally.'

The authors of the article do not mention any of this. Here's what they write about it: “The more peaceful members (of the brotherhoods, ed. ), in an attempt to distinguish themselves from the violent elements, have rebuilt the networks between students by giving them new names. Several Maphites have moved on to a new group called the Green Circuit Association.”

As we can see, the "green bible" is anything but the main piece of evidence brought by the prosecution. In the same ruling, the Turin court motivates the failure of 416 bis on other fronts. In particular, he does not believe that the Maphite-Green Circuit Association criminal association has mafia-like characteristics because the facts demonstrated as evidence of influence towards the community are modest, and suggest "above all a generic clash between rival gangs". Indeed: “The alleged 'mafia power' of the Maphites clashes with the similar and competing attitude of numerous other distinct associations, which the declarants have indicated with the names of Eiye, Black Axe, Pirates , Vikings and Buccaneers ” . On 30 June this year the Court of Appeal of Turinit instead confirmed 416 bis for the accused. The reasons have not yet been filed.

Another investigation associated with the "green bible" cited in the article is that of Bologna , against about twenty members of the Maphite. Even in this case, no judicial documents are cited which attest to the fundamental importance of the contested document. In reality the investigation was also based on justice collaborators and wiretaps. Not even mentioned is the fact that, also in this case, the "suspected" Nigerian mafia members were definitively convicted by the Supreme Court on 30 March this year.

DIA, EUROPOL, FBI: ARE THEY ALL WRONG? – Thinking that our anti-mafia legislation is too severe and "broad" is a free opinion, and many contradictory sentences on non-traditional mafias (just think of "Capital Mafia") demonstrate different views even among the officials. The Nigerian mafia, however, is not just an Italian "bad thing", even if the legal definition of mafia association belongs only to our legal system. Already in 2013 , Europol included in its annual report Nigerian criminal organizations among those capable of "dominating" the communities of compatriots who emigrated abroad, such as Cosa Nostra in the United States at the time. The FBIfor many years it has indicated them as the most powerful in all of Africa, operating in eighty countries, including the United States, especially in drug trafficking. The cults have ended up at the center of investigations in the United Kingdom , Switzerland , Germany and other countries.

Every year our Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate dedicates several pages of its report to the phenomenon: in the last one it writes that "the Nigerian-based associations reproduce the characteristics of similar criminal realities born in the motherland, defined as cults, which act in a similar way to the Italian mafias, using close ties between associates, intimidating methods, secrecy, silence". Anti-mafia analysts underline that "the high organizational level and dangerousness of the Nigerian gangs are demonstrated by the character of mafia now judicially recognized” although “however, the mafia connotation contested against a structured Nigerian criminal group is not always confirmed in the different levels of judgement”.

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Nigerian mafia: repentant reveals Cosa Nostra pact and secrets of drug couriers
Giuseppe Cirillo 20 September 2023
New collaborator "denies" Mario Mori about the "now dead mafia"

" We Nigerians manage 80 percent of the heroin that enters Palermo, while cocaine only 20 percent ." With these words, Samson Alaye Obas , 38 years old and with a sentence of 14 years in prison on appeal, gave an insight into a country where, unfortunately, it seems that there are many more possibilities for integration within organized crime, which within the legal economy. This is a story provided in recent months to the District Anti-Mafia Directorate - announced " Live Sicilia” - which confirms the coexistence of Palermo and Nigerian criminal groups in difficult areas such as Palermo: a city forced to face not only the challenge of crime, but also a high rate of unemployment, which places it, together with the rest of Sicily, among the tops of the European rankings relating to youth unemployment. In fact, despite the 'poor' former general Mario Mori consider the mafia now dead, the reality in Palermo shows us a very different picture: the mafias have multiplied, and Cosa Nostra controls them. A non-negligible fact, which adds to Obas' story, from which another, even more disturbing aspect also emerged: the surge in crack consumption in Palermo, especially among young people, and an agreement between Nigerian criminal organizations and Palermo bosses, whose aim is the management of drug dealing squares. In fact, the new collaborator explained to the public prosecutors Gaspare Spedale and Giulia Beux that at the basis of the relationship between the two criminal groups " there is an agreement " which concerns " the Italians of Ballarò”: when these are short of drugs they must be supplied first, even at the cost of cutting supplies to other drug dealing places, such as those of “ Vucciria, Falsomiele, Brancaccio and Piazza Marina ”, all managed by Nigerians. And again: “ Italians want pearl cocaine, 'Crystal white' it's called. When they can't find that, they ask Nigerians who deal in a poorer quality and it's called pinstripe. The people of Palermo - he continued - work with the pearl one because it is easier to process to sell crack ”. During his talks with prosecutors, the 38-year-old also described the various Nigerian organizations that support and support his associates. In addition to describing an organization “which is called 'Biafra', which offers support to fellow villagers to sell drugs ", Obas also spoke of other groups, which have long been rooted in the Palermo area, such as the Vikings, which " provide protection to those who deal drugs, or ask for get paid ”. Furthermore, the new justice collaborator provided several significant elements regarding the routes of the drugs, which would be shipped " from Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, or from Holland or Spain ". The first stages are “ France and Belgium, then Naples ” as far as Italy is concerned. Finally, " couriers are used to bring drugs to Sicily "; among these, there would be those who decide to ingest it, or transport it "inside special suitcases , specifically designed to overcome drug dog checks; suitcases that would also often stop in " Messina ".

The Nigerian mafia in the Dia report
The words of Samson Alaye Obasthey connect perfectly with the latest report by Dia, which, taking into consideration the declarations provided by various justice collaborators, described the management and control of the Palermo drug dealing squares, the approaches transmitted to the "square leaders" and to the drug pushers authorized to deal in the neighborhoods of Ballarò, Vucciria and Capo, but also the methods with which extortion is carried out against commercial establishments in the Palermo area. In particular, with regards to foreign crime, the latest Dia report also underlined "the margins of rooting of the Nigerian mafia in relation to relations with Cosa Nostra". In fact, in its report, Dia recalled the sentence issued in March 2022 by the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Palermo, following the operation "Black axe ”. The judges highlighted how members of the Ballarò mafia family employed Nigerians as "picciotti" to carry out drug dealing activities only. A partnership, that between Nigerian crime and Cosa Nostra, which seems to be marked by a common propensity for the control of territorial areas, but also by silence, by the subjugation of the victims and by a level of danger, whose "mafiosity is now judicially recognized".

Reggio Calabria: Nigerian mafia boss sentenced. Voodoo rites and enslavement
December 16, 2023
The Court of Assizes of Reggio Calabria has sentenced one of the alleged leaders of the Nigerian mafia in Italy to 26 years in prison. Favour Obazelu, known as "Fred" or "Friday", aged 44, at the end of the first degree trial, was in fact found guilty of criminal conspiracy, enslavement, human trafficking, kidnapping and sexual violence. Already convicted of mafia association by the Court of Bari, Obazelu was arrested by the Reggio Calabria flying squad in February 2022 as part of an investigation coordinated by the prosecutor Giovanni Bombardieri.The prosecutor, during the indictment, this morning had even asked for a sentence one year less than that given to the accused accused of having brought a Nigerian girl to Italy in 2014. Obazelu had promised the woman a job in a bar. According to the investigations, however, he had forced her into prostitution to repay the debt she had been kidnapped in an apartment in Bari, he raped her and made her pregnant and then kicked her out of the house, preventing her from taking her documents with her and also her son born from the rape of her suffered by her tormentor . According to investigators, together with a brother and other people in Libya and Nigeria, the forty-four-year-old Nigerian recruited girls from his homeland to be led by deception to Italy. As prosecutor Amerio explained during her speech, the victims were tied using a voodoo ritual and kept in a state of complete psychological prostration before being introduced to prostitution. One of them reported him an d told investigators that she had been subjected to a black magic ritual in Nigeria to bind her to respect the commitment to pay the sum of 25 thousand euros. According to the prosecutor's investigations, there would have been a real ceremony in which the girl, then twenty-one years old, and her family were threatened with death if they broke the oath.