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"'Ndrangheta is the most powerful mafia"

Published the: 2/21/2018 17:22

"Even if some areas are more welcoming and attractive than others, no territory can be considered more immune" from the conditioning of the 'ndrangheta. It is a " deep and uniform movement that affects the majority of the northern provinces, with a particular intensity in Lombardy , and which has been favored until recent times by widespread attitudes of underestimation and removal". It is the parliamentary anti-mafia commission to underline, in the final report, that "the colonization" ndranghetista has established itself in a leopard spot with a particular predilection for the minor municipalities ".

The Mafia method "is not used only to alter the competition and pollute the legal economy.Those investigations have involved local administrations in varying degrees, signaling worrying episodes of corruption in the public administration and politics, with which the mafias they relate with extreme open-mindedness and without making differences between political parties and political parties, as also confirmed by the various dissolution that in recent years have affected the northern municipalities: Bordighera and Ventimiglia (later both canceled by administrative justice) in the province of Imperia in 2011, Leinì and Rivarolo Canavese (TO) in 2012, Sedriano (MI) in 2013, Brescello (RE) in 2016 and, finally, Lavagna (GE) in 2017 ".

Long undervalued and wrongly considered a subordinated and backward mafia, the 'ndrangheta "is today the richest, most aggressive and powerful criminal organization, deeply rooted in Calabria, where it has a suffocating control of the territory and economic and public activities. administration, has settled in all the regions of the country, even if with different degrees of penetration, and also shows a marked transnational profile ".

A world leader in drug trafficking, "has privileged, if not exclusive, relations with the main drug traffickers in Central and South America, and is the organization that has best exploited the opportunities of globalization".

MAFIA - The "phase of submersion" of our "following the defeat of the Corleone, subversive and stragista mafia, and the absence of an active leader, which resulted in the absence of a unified strategy, have not affected the criminal potential of our own thing, that despite the incessant action of the police and the magistracy shows an extraordinary capacity for regeneration ", reads the final report.

"Cosa Nostra is vital in every Sicilian province: in these years the organization has maintained control of the territory and still enjoys broad consensus, and still largely exercises its capacity for intimidation which still corresponds, conversely, the silence of the victims . the death of Toto Riina, paradoxically, is another current source of strength . Cosa Nostra - says the report - is in fact free to ridarsi a central decision-making body, and then a common strategy, until now hindered by a leader who, in jail for life in 41-bis, he could neither command nor could he be replaced, so the transition phase that has formally opened and will probably undergo a short-term acceleration will be carefully monitored ".

CAMORRA - The intense repressive activity of recent years, which saw the decline of historic clans like that of the Casalesi, "has accentuated the fragmentation and atomization of the Camorra but has not affected its aggression.A criminal reality, difficult to frame in a unitary definition, which never before appears strong and dynamic, with extensive control of the regional territory, a close relationship with the politics and institutions of some areas, a vast national and international projection, where it plays a leading role in the market world of drugs and distribution networks ". The Report underlines the phenomenon "of the increasingly widespread and dangerously active youth gangs, especially in Naples,. Even the chambers showed an evolutionary process towards a more accentuated entrepreneurial vocation ".

The report then extensively describes the evolution of the Pugliese mafias , developing the analysis "on the plural territorial mafia that, in Puglia, sees from the one extreme of the region what remains of the sacred united crown, but also of the Bari mafia, with its marked resemblance to the Neapolitan Camorra, and above all the violent Foggian and Gargano mafias, which in this phase represent for their ferocity the element of greatest danger, as well as a metaphor of the long underestimation that allowed them to grow ".