The State Police arrested in Torvaianica (a hamlet of the Municipality of Pomezia), NR convicted Leccese from 52, recipient of a provision for the execution of concurrent sentences for over 20 years of imprisonment, issued by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Lecce on 17.11.2023 for crimes relating to association [...]
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On 25 September 1988 the mafia killed Antonino Saetta, former president of the Court of Appeal of Caltanissetta, the first judging magistrate murdered in an ambush in which his son also died. In those years of mourning and dirty affairs, the rectitude of judges like Saetta - who among other things dealt with the trial against the killers of [...]
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The confiscation of company shares and assets worth over 10 million euros has been ordered from a subject linked to organized crime in Catania. The State Police and the Financial Police of Padua, through the staff of the Anti-Crime Division of the Police Headquarters and the Command Provincial of the Financial Police has [...]
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Palermo Convention, 20 years later. On the twentieth anniversary of the entry into force of one of the main United Nations treaties against transnational organized crime - signed in the Sicilian capital - the Italian Government is organizing an international conference. On Friday 29 September, ministers and delegations from 34 countries will meet in the bunker hall – entitled […]
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Extradited to Italy from Nigeria Jeff Joy, one of our country's most wanted fugitives: the woman is inserted, with important roles, in a transnational criminal association dedicated to trafficking in human beings. She recruited women of Nigerian nationality to be sent into prostitution. The delivery procedure, with the collaboration of Interpol, ended in the afternoon [...]
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It is unacceptable that criminal organizations contribute to increasing GDP. It is mostly managed by mafia organizations and has an annual turnover estimated at 40 billion euros, equal to over 2 percent of our GDP (Sauro Mocetti and Lucia Rizzica, "Organized crime in Italy", Banca d'Italia, Questions of Economics [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The super boss of Cosa Nostra has been arrested, the last heir of the Corleonesi who went down in history as the massacres, now it is necessary to retrace the network of supporters and find the safe that contains the secrets of the clan, the secrets of Totò Riina, the boss of bosses. Secrets that perhaps have allowed to keep alive [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) The mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested by the Carabinieri del Ros, after 30 years on the run. The investigation that led to the arrest of the Castelvetrano (Tp) mafia boss was coordinated by the Palermo prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia and the deputy prosecutor Paolo Guido. The news, in a few hours, made the rounds of [...]
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The Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia, expresses condolences for the death of Liliana Ferraro, a magistrate who also served at the Ministry of Justice as Giovanni Falcone's deputy, as director general of Criminal Affairs, and then herself at the helm of the Office after the massacre by Capaci. "You fully interpreted the service role of the Ministry of [...]
read moreThe State Police of Messina, yesterday evening, executed the application order of the measure of pre-trial detention in prison, requested by the Public Prosecutor's Office District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Messina, against VIRGA Domenico, cl. `63, a prominent element of" Cosa Nostra "and, in particular, of the district of San Mauro Castelverde-Gangi, as [...]
read moreThe 12th Conference of the Parties to the Palermo Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), held in Vienna from 16 to 2020 October 2000, ended with great success for Italy. The Conference coincided with the celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of the Convention - signed in December XNUMX in Palermo - which, as [...]
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Legality, for a thousand students summer camps in assets confiscated from the mafia Monday in Locri the signing of the Protocol between the Ministry of Education and the Presidency of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission Present Minister Azzolina, President Morra and Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri Free summer camps for a thousand students and students organized within the assets confiscated from the mafia [...]
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This afternoon in Naples, during a static demonstration in Piazza Dante, regularly forewarned by the trade union organization SI Cobas in which about three hundred people took part, including workers and exponents of various antagonistic realities, the organized unemployed and the civic committees of Bagnoli, about two hundred demonstrators improvised a march - banned by the current [...]
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(by Rossella Daverio) Today 23 May 2020, the XNUMXth anniversary of the Capaci massacre, the Falcone Foundation invited citizens to hang a white sheet on their windows. White like cleanliness, like light, like truth. It is a beautiful symbol, which encourages the awakening of consciences. Because of cleanliness, light and [...]
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The power of memory does not stop in the face of the constraints linked to the spread of covid19 and the State Police, in agreement with the Ministry of Education, on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the massacres that cost the lives of judges Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo, the judge Paolo Borsellino and the escort agents Antonio Montinaro, Rocco [...]
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The total value of the assets seized and confiscated from the mafias amounts to 32 billion euros, equal to 1,8% of the Gross Domestic Product before the crisis induced by the pandemic. This is highlighted by Eurispes which proposes to create a holding company to better manage this heritage, "organized in close collaboration with the National Agency for Confiscated and Seized Assets [...]
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Roberto Saviano in the English weekly Observer talked about the activities of local mafias at the time of the pandemic. The Italian writer talks about home deliveries by the mafia and the Camorra. He claims that the criminals, now as they are, are chasing all the opportunities that the pandemic has, by injecting huge amounts of money into the economy [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The other day we were outraged by the contents of the article in a well-known German newspaper Die Welt which headlined: “The mafia is waiting for the money that Italy is asking from the EU”. The bipartisan disappointment towards the German newspaper marked the "unanimous" response of Italian politicians. Today, Lorenzo Tondo in the English newspaper "The Guardian", in a [...]
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Gabrielli: Police Forces, “anchors in the storm” Immediate response, rapid ability to adapt, balance, firmness and humanity. The COVID19 emergency also determined for the Police Forces the need for a sudden adaptation of the organization and the ability to respond to the protection needs of the citizen, in a completely unexpected scenario for the new tasks of [...]
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The Times conducted an investigation into Maria Riina, daughter of the well-known Salvatore Riina. She has long since moved to London where she started a new life by acquiring a corporate training agency called Formations House. During a trial in 2011, prosecutors stated that a British company headed by Ms Riina, in [...]
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From the early hours of the morning, a vast operation by the Turin Public Prosecutor's Office is underway which coordinated the investigations carried out by the Turin State Police, with the coordination of the Central Operational Service of the State Police and with the Local Police of Turin, 14 stops have been carried out so far and [...]
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Marina remembers Giuseppe and does so with her book I DEFEATED the mafia. IO SONO VIVO !, written with the participation of father Santino Di Matteo, in memory of the little one. The book reports the signs and smelly numbers of those long 778 days of imprisonment. Joseph was the child we all remember on horseback, [...]
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«Two boys from the village who grew up too quickly, a single passion for cycling. A crossroads of destinies in a strange story whose memory has been lost in our days ». (by Rossella Daverio) We do not know if the two protagonists of the "strange story" we would like to share loved the bicycle with the same passion as Sante Pollastri and Costante [...]
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