Tuttavia, un provvedimento scellerato dello Stato ha allargato i confini delle mafie, rendendo possibile "un'alleanza delle alleanze". Lo Stato non si accontentava di avere tre grossi cancri, ora ne permetteva la diffusione in metastasi sull'intero territorio italiano e nel cuore delle amministrazioni. The members of the three historical mafias always had mutual contact, especially through the prison system. But from the sixties onwards, cases of double and even triple affiliation became increasingly common.
We can see that, in order to promote their reintegration into social life, sicilian affiliates started to be confined within Campania territory, the historical region of camorra, which in the s was wrongly considered to be safe and free from criminal organizations. This is something scary.
One of the strengths, and at the same time weakness, of criminal organizations in Italy had been the strong rooting to their territory.
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As I was researching for my book Silvio Berlusconi's Italy: I had almost involuntarily been dragged into the criminal dark side of Italy since writing about the last twenty years of Italian public life - the Berlusconi Age - meant writing about the permanent mafia-state connectio … a wise traveller should bring this book with him on an Italian holiday and use it as sunscreen while tanning on a gorgeous Sicilian beach.
I had almost involuntarily been dragged into the criminal dark side of Italy since writing about the last twenty years of Italian public life - the Berlusconi Age - meant writing about the permanent mafia-state connections, "a very real deal between the mafia and the state in the founding years of the Italian Republic", as the author puts it.
So, since it is impossible to write about Berlusconi without writing about the Italian mafias, I dived into 'Mafia Republic' and swimming there was a very pleasant, so to speak, activity. First of all professor Dickie has a voice of his own, a narrative style that makes this true crime narrative very fluent, catching and interesting. If reading extensively, the anxiety-generating story of the Italian 'organized crime' gives you a clear general picture; instead, if you are interested in particular aspects and periods, you can also find detailed information on single episodes.
Paradoxically, he sees the mafias everlasting presence in Italian life much clearly than most of my fellow-citizens, of the Italian state and of politicians who has kept denying the presence itself of the mafia or diminished its role repudiating the fact that our three main mafias are crime syndicates, piovras that are a counter-states, organized, efficient and merciless. The mafias' appalling cruelty is essential to what they are and what they do But ordinary criminals, however organized they may be, do not have remotely the kind of political friendships that senior mafiosi have always enjoyed.
It would be far, far beyond the mental horizon of any common-or-garden crook to try and shape the institutional destiny of his homeland in the way Sicilian mafiosi tried to do after Here the book approaches its climax: In conclusion, this book welcomes you to Italy, land of beauty and corruption, home to Leonardo and the mafia, where the media are not free and a lot of underground knowledge - or counterculture - is needed. Jul 20, Garvan rated it it was amazing.
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Really good, but often hard to follow because of the enormous amount of information about the different mafias over time and all the different names. John Dickie has become something of a Mafia "expert", this being his third book about the subject the others being Mafia brotherhoods and Cosa Nostra. He writes lucidly and well about the peculiarly Italian mix of culture, criminality and power that is encompassed by the major organised crime societies mentioned in the title. Originally confined to their own areas of the Peninsula and Sicily, Mafia republic describes how, after World War II, these criminal syndicates expanded their range into N John Dickie has become something of a Mafia "expert", this being his third book about the subject the others being Mafia brotherhoods and Cosa Nostra.
Originally confined to their own areas of the Peninsula and Sicily, Mafia republic describes how, after World War II, these criminal syndicates expanded their range into Northern Italy and beyond - to the USA, Australia, South America and Asia - via the explosion of money provided by the drug trade. Dickie describes the inter-connection between Cosa Nostra and the political networks in Sicily and how up until the end of the Cold War they both relied on each other to confirm their power.
Until the present time, it has been the ability of these Mafia organisations to influence the political arena that have enabled them to lurk "openly in the shadows", and infect nearly all areas of business in Italy. At the end of the Cold War, when the old certainties no longer applied, and with much more at stake owing to the rivers of gold provided by drug money, the connections that had slowly built up between Cosa Nostra and the Camorra particularly, and between Cosa Nostra and the Government, began to break down.
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Salvatore Riina, the Corleonosi who murdered his way to power in the 80s, finally went too far when he murdered Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, two of the country's most committed anti-mafia judges. Even the politicians couldn't sweep this under the carpet, and the response was heavily damaging to all the Mafia syndicates. Di Lauro was among the mourners after La Monica was murdered in , when the shopkeepers of Secondigliano hauled down their shutters as a sign of respect. Di Lauro's grief was in no way diminished by the fact that, as several supergrasses informers have since claimed, he was implicated in his boss's murder.
He was arrested for the first time in , during a Camorra summit in the Neapolitan neighbourhood of Forcella , with other members of the Giuliano clan.
Di Lauro, the head of the Camorra clan that ran the northern suburbs, presided over a tightly managed drug empire that imported cocaine and heroin and distributed it through an army of dealers. In exchange for the monopoly and steady cuts of the proceeds, Di Lauro granted neighborhood ringleaders a certain amount of autonomy. Despite a niggling and semi-permanent feud with nearby Licciardi clan , Di Lauro kept his courriers - "the Spaniards" as they are widely known because of their endless trips ferrying cocaine from Galicia in Spain - and his street pushers and the other components of his empire under brutally tight control.
He funnelled the proceeds into real estate, buying dozens of flats in Naples, owning shops in France and the Netherlands, as well as businesses importing fur, fake fur and lingerie. Fornisce a chiunque voglia, cinese o napoletano, tentare la strada dell'imprenditoria, manodopera numerosa e a basso costo. Ma le scuse con la camorra non funzionano e le teste di serpente spesso rischiano la punizione finale quando barano.
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Ma non ci sono solamente schiavi. E per la prima volta in Italia accade la rivoluzione: Gli imprenditori arrivati dall'Asia cercano maestri per formare i loro artigiani goffi. Pagano meglio dei padroni di Secondigliano per rubare l'arte a quelle maestranze che nei laboratori di Arzano tagliano gli abiti di prima scelta.
Capolavori dell'italian style disegnati da sarti famosi e finiti poi addosso a stelle di prima grandezza. Come quando Angelina Jolie comparve sulla passerella degli Oscar indossando un completo di raso bianco, bellissimo. Uno di quelli su misura, di quelli che gli stilisti italiani, contendendosele, offrono alle star. Quel vestito l'aveva cucito un mastro napoletano, Pasquale, in una fabbrica in nero ad Arzano. Gli avevano detto solo: Pasquale aveva lavorato su centinaia di vestiti andati negli Usa.
Si ricordava bene quel tailleur bianco. Si ricordava ancora le misure, tutte le misure. Il taglio del collo, i millimetri dei polsi. Ed era proprio Pasquale quello che serviva ai cinesi per fare il grande salto. Lo usavano per insegnare alle sarte venute dall'Asia. Lezioni clandestine, nascosto nel cofano come un latitante. Ai camorristi non piace che i cinesi gli rubino l'arte. Mentre invece i clan si sono messi a fare i cinesi. Copiano i loro sistemi economici che danno vita a consorzi di piccole imprese, con gare al ribasso nei costi e nei tempi pur di accaparrarsi una commessa.
Con vincoli aperti dal prestito a usura e cementati dalla minaccia.