“It’s still alive.” Contemporary Business of the Sicilian Mafia

He didn’t fall: he stumbled, got up and followed other ways. This thing There are ideals that do not die and soldiers who die for them.

“A Cosa Nostra It is alive and present. ”

Sicily Attorney Antimalia, Maurizio de Lucia, it was clear, following, following the largest antimal operation since the 1980s, which took place in February, very successfully, with a record number of arrests: 181.

Helicopters, 1200 agents with balaclavas and fist machine guns, political dogs. It hasn’t happened for years. Although not the strength it was – confessed by Lucia – the new generation of Sicilian mobsters uses encrypted mobile phones to communicate, with thousands of short -lived SIM cards that even smuggling, in prison, which will be largely at its mercy.

Drug trafficking is part of the new routines, but money laundering and the game will still be present. But today who rules in trafficking is the Ndranghetaoriginating from the Italian region of Calabria, which is organized in continental Italy in a similar way to the mafia – which is the ‘crumbs’ of the neighbors.

In fact, Cosa Nostra’s weakness has been evident since 2008, when almost all the leadership of Cosa Nostra was arrested.

The ears reveal a difficult scenario for the mafia business. Members constantly complain about the persecution of the authorities, but also the lack of people who want to join the organization. And those who come together, hear, are of poor quality.

If Corleone, on the outskirts of Palermo, was the cradle of the most famous bosses Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, giving name to the Don we see in the image of this article, the families of the city center of Palermo recovered, over time, authority.

After the 1986-87 mega-julge with the judge Giovanni Falcone in the lead – murdered in a bomber attack when confirming the sentences in 1992 – much has changed in the fight against Cosa Nostra.

A new prison regime, the “41-bis”, began the true fight against communication with the outside world and the hardest predictions for members of organized crime; Creating a much more complete database has helped keep an eye on mobsters; The creation of the National Antimalian Directorate brought more resources to combat organized crime.

However, the number of homicides committed by the famous criminal organization dramaticallyfrom 718 in 1991 to just 28 in 2019. Violence was reinvented to camouflage in court. Homicides were the activity of the Sicilian mafia that most light focused on their obscure activities, both in the media and parliament, and Sicily’s mobsters realized this.

Death threats have become located, as annually the institution of charity PUBLIC AVVISCY, so as to draw less to the attention of national media.

Despite the drop in homicide rate and other violent crimes, the number of properties and companies seized to the mafia – a clear example that the low in violence does not necessarily mean that mobster crime has ended or even diminished.