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.