The alliance of the mobsters
Worrying report. The Directorate of Investigation Antimafia (DIA) in Italy says in the annual report published on Tuesday that Italian mafia is increasingly giving up violent conflicts for influence, preferring to collaborate for drug trafficking, prostitution and money laundering, Reuters reports.
The Cosa Nostra organizations in Sicily and Camorra in the Napoli area form alliances in both Italy and abroad, while the « Calabria » (the peak of the boot « in a usual analogy for the form of the Italian peninsula-n. Red.) Is increasing on the control of the projects of public works, according to the document.
« The coexistence created the synergies that became gradually structured, » Michele Carbone, DIA director, said in a press conference. He added that the respective structures have become « capable of absorbing overlaps, tensions and friction. »
The Directorate of Antimafia warns that infiltration of mafia endangers public projects such as EU recovery funds after coronavirus epidemic, the bridge that connects the continent or preparations for the 2026 Winter Olympics.
In 2024, 38% of the administrative measures Antimafia targeted the construction sector, the investigations following 200 public works sites.
Carbone said that Dia is ready to block any involvement of the mafia in the construction of the bridge over the Messina Strait. The preventive anti-mafia activities related to the project will start soon, he promised.
The DIA report also emphasizes the increasingly advanced technological sophistication of the mafia, which uses encrypted communications channels and resorts to drones to maintain contact with prisons prisoners.
For money laundering, Chinese « banking clandestin » networks are used, the document shows.
At the same time, the recruitment in the so-called « baby gangs » of marginalized young people, in order to commit crimes, is facilitated by the spectacular display of power in the social media.
