Puglia, Operation "Big Dipper"

Mipaaf, Bellanova: “We will not allow the mafia to get its hands on precious funds for healthy agriculture. Nobody can steal our young people's future. The State is there "

“We will never allow the Mafia to get their hands on agricultural funds. The State is there and my thanks go to the Carabinieri del Ros, the Agri-food Protection Command of the Carabinieri and the Dda of Bari ”.

Thus Minister Bellanova comments on the operation of the Bari District Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, the Carabinieri of the ROS and the Agri-food Protection Command who have carried out an order of precautionary measures issued by the Court of Bari, against 48 people. Disrupting, we read, "a mafia association in the hinterland of Foggia, also active in the illicit perception of community funds to the detriment of agriculture"

“For years unscrupulous people, according to what emerges from the investigations, had their hands on European funds destined for agriculture, intimidating farmers with threats and violence, up to the point of kidnapping. Intolerable crimes, which add to the damage of stealing important European funds destined for agriculture. All this is unforgivable. More than ever today. An important operation which also confirms once again the cogency of the reform of crimes in the agri-food sector and the anti-mafia code. We must never let our guard down and continue to combat all forms of illegality in defense of the healthy economy, in a context where the risk of infiltration into the local productive fabric is significant, especially at this time when many are suffering from the crisis. current economic situation ”, continues the Minister.

"Agriculture, the healthy one, which represents most of Puglia, is made up of men and women who love their land and their work, and of young people, more and more, who want to invest in this sector and renew it with an important look to the future. We work for this agriculture and these businesses, and we will never tire of doing it ”concludes the Minister. “Nobody can think of stealing the future from our young people”.

Puglia, Operation "Big Dipper"

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