About 130 people were arrested on Tuesday in the extensive action against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, which indicates that it remained a significant criminal force despite failures in the last decades.
Cosa Nostra “, the Mafia union based in Palermo and its surroundings, was terrorized by Italy in the 1980s and the 1990s, but after that the most powerful mafia became Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta.”
The suspects arrested on Tuesday were accused of different crimes, including drug trafficking, attempted murder, extortion, illegally online gambling and illegal possession of firearms, cited in the Karabinier Police communication.
Additional warrants were issued for 33 suspects who were already in prison due to other crimes.
Investigations have found that the Mafia Families of Palermo coordinate their activities throughout the city and its province, as once in the golden days of Cosa Nostra, especially in connection with drug trade, said the police.
It added that families from the city center reciprocated the authority compared to years in which they dominated the fraction of the Corleonea – the city outside the Palermo, which was the birthplace of the boss of Tota Riina and Bernard Vasanzan.
Modern bosses use modern technology to perform their job, using encrypted mobile phones that are in prisons to enable closed bosses to continue to carry out their command, investigators said.
Despite the impairment of law enforcement, Cosa Nostra continues to attract young people, Karabinjers said, noting that they documented a new recruiter that older collaborator gave “Lessons on Mafia.”
The future mentor has given “concrete instructions, calling him to take his behavior towards people who will be subjected to extortion, and advising him to relate to mafia leaders,” said in a police statement.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, writing to the Platform X, welcomed the arrests on Tuesday as applying a “very heavy cos nostri” and giving a clear signal that “the fight against the mob did not stop threading,” Reuters reports.
(Vijesti.ba / Fena)
