Coming to Italy, the mayor juices against the mafia in more than 30 years

The mayor juices the mafia in Italy over 30 years ago this Wednesday in the secure region of Calabria, with the aim of assisting a duro golpe a la temida ‘Ndrangheta, tentacles are lying all over the world thanks to cocaine trafficking.

Three hundred and fifty-five -about them political leaders, police agents and negotiators-, 900 testogos en 400 abogados serán escuchados en un special spice specially prepared para acoger el juicio, the most important of the last ten decades, which is celebrated in the heart of one of the poorest regions of the peninsula, gangrenada por la mafia.

Heated and also testigos de cargo aceptaron romper ‘la omertá’, the day of silence, to reveal the secrets of Poderoso tribe Mancuso and its associates.

A large and varied list of deletions to be retrieved by the decade of 1990 will be judged, among them many numbers, as well as the counties of white-collar and inclusive employees., drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering and abuse of power.

The juice “It is an angular pillar in the construction of a wall against the mafias in Italy”, aseguró a la AFP the fiscal Nicola Gratteri, who initiated the investigation four years ago.

The historic battle of the fiscal antimafia

Gratteri, 62 years old, inspired by the legendary masterpieces of antimafia, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, assigned by the Order of the Mafia and Famous by President presided over the first megajuicio against the Sicilian Mafia in the decade of 1980 with which it would be called to join the time of organization.

In the auditorium of more than 3,000 metro squares built for the “maxi juicio”, which will take more than two years, will be located in the bench of the accused key figures for the traffic of cocaine between Europe y Latin America.

La ‘Ndrangheta, who has been enriched and expanded thanks to drug trafficking and extortion, has entered the world of business, founding phantom companies and using testimonials to make its legal gains in the legal economy.

In Calabria all the laws of the company apply, all public tenders are accepted, as well as the assistants like the hospitals, including the management of the cements and the courts, recalls the experts.

According to estimates by antimafia authorities, the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria is based onr unas 150 families o clanes, que a su vez cuentan con 6.000 miembros y afiliados.

Contrary to their societies and allies around the world, numbers have many difficulty determining.

The crime organization generates more than 50,000 million euros (611,000 million dollars) this year, says Gratteri, who considers it the richest organization in the world.

“Because it starts with the idea of ​​being an organization, of an imperial type, that works like a multinational powerhouse, with a jefe in the height of the pyramid, it follows all the members”, verklaar Gratteri told the AFP to illustrate the reasons for celebrating a “maxi-juicio”.

An organization that is part of society

Serán unveils connections with politics, masonry, businesses, traffickers, officials and corrupt agents and is centered on the Mancuso family, the sanguine clan of the province of Vibo Valentia.

“The most impressive is … the power of the Mancuso clan, which encodes with the state’s devices, the institutes literally have at its disposal”, Gratteri commented on the order of arrests made in December 2019 in Italy and Europe and is leading the way.

For the criminologist Federico Varese, of the University of Oxford, the ‘Ndrangheta is a part of society, only it is integrated as it is involved in all legal and elicit activities.

“The power of their mafia families is to control the territory and within the territory of all property”, aseguró Varese.

“If you want to open a tent, if you want to build something, you have to work through them. Because they are the authority ”, lamentó el fiscal antimafia, author de numerosos libros on the subject together with the writer Antonio Nicaso.

The investigator warned that a book was being prepared about the mafias, including the ‘Ndrangheta’, which was preparing to infiltrate and thwart the reconstruction and funds to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

(With AFP information)

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