Interpenetrations between 'ndrangheta and deviated masonry
Thu, 02/06/2020 - 20:30
Judicial

Regarding the "interpenetration between 'ndrangheta and deviated masonry", the XXXIII Legislature by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on the phenomenon of the Mafia and other similar criminal associations summarizes several of the concepts that emerged during a series of investigative findings, largely founded on the investigative results of investigations that took place in the Province of Reggio Calabria.
At the end of the 70s, minority sectors of the judiciary began to report hypotheses of hidden links between Calabrian organized crime and freemasonry, as worrying signs of a new form of insertion in the power circuits. But, beyond meager and rare procedural findings, it will be necessary to wait for the season of the collaborators to have reliable confirmations.
Only from 1992, and in particular in the documents of the so-called "Olimpia" operation of the DDA of Reggio Calabria, will an organic reconstruction of these relationships come also in light of the changes that occurred at the end of the 70s within the 'ndrangheta, changes that will result, in light of today's knowledge, functional precisely to the formation of those relationships and those connections with a part of masonry. It is the Commission's belief that the Calabrian masonry, which boasts an ancient and solid settlement and dates back to the dawn of the Italian Risorgimento, is not as a whole a deviated masonry.
In the second half of the '70s the' Ndrangheta found itself at a crossroads: either to continue being a criminal organization dedicated to extortion and kidnapping, or to make a qualitative leap and enter the circuits of power to transform itself into a 'mafia entrepreneur ", in an independent economic and political entity, capable of interacting with representatives of institutions, public administrations, parties, and offering their" services "in the procurement sector, in the collection of electoral consents, and so on. To do this the 'ndrangheta found itself in the need to create a new, elite structure, a new leadership, extraneous to the traditional hierarchies of the "locals", able to move in an unprejudiced way, without the limits of the old honored society and its subculture and especially, without the traditional prohibitions, established by the code of the 'Ndrangheta, of having contacts of any kind with the so-called "contrasts", that is, with all strangers to the old honored society. New rules replaced the traditional ones, which did not disappear completely, but which remained in force only for the basis of the 'ndrangheta, while a new organizational level was born, the prerogative of the top characters who acquired the possibility of moving freely between state apparatuses, services. secrets and subversive groups.
Thus was born the "Saint", and "santisti" are called its members, who constitute what can be called the "strategic direction" of the new 'ndrangheta. About the "Saint", there are many statements by collaborators of justice. They clearly outline the new structure and the characters that would be part of it. It is good to warn that it is not easy to find certain evidence, especially in relation to the people involved, about their belonging to "covered" Masonic lodges. And this is because they are not only two organizations that are subject and object of secrecy and confidentiality, but also because many Calabrians have chosen to enroll in Masonic lodges based in other parts of Italy. This evidently increases the degree of impenetrability. With the "Santa" the 'ndrangheta opens up to compromise with the deviated powers of the institutions. The "Saint" comes into contact with Freemasonry, or rather enters Freemasonry, through compliant lodges.
It would be a serious mistake to believe, however, that these references exhaust the links between the 'ndrangheta and the more or less deviated masonry, as if they were datable a few decades ago. For the 'ndrangheta the alliance went beyond a mere utilitarian relationship, to become a strategic alliance through which it achieved that invisibility and impunity which, on closer inspection, represent the essential characteristics through which it obtained the current position of supremacy and diffusion.

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