Lorenzo Tondo
at the Guardian offers a piece on an emerging fifth organized crime group in
Italy.
Alongside Cosa
Nostra in Sicily, the ’Ndrangheta in Calabria, the Camorra in Naples and the
Sacra Corona Unita, investigators have identified an emerging Puglia-based
crime organisation that has remained under their radar for several years.
Judicial investigations
had suggested mafia activity in northern Puglia, but confirmation from
government authorities came after three car bombings in Foggia in January and
the year’s first murder, when gunmen on a scooter shot a 50-year-old man in his
car. The violence in Foggia prompted the interior minister, Luciana Lamorgese,
to send a team of anti-mafia investigators to Puglia.
Signs of the
criminal clan’s activities predated these incidents. There was an average of
one murder a week, one robbery a day and an extortion attempt every 48 hours in
Foggia province in 2017 and 2018.
“The Foggia
mafia is relatively young,” the head prosecutor for the city, Ludovico Vaccaro,
said. “The clans that make up this organisation have been embedded in this
territory for at least 30 years. We cannot compare them to the historical
Italian mafia groups like Cosa Nostra and ’Ndrangheta, but it is a mafia
characterised by a high degree of aggression and violence. It is what I call a
primitive mafia, one that feeds cadavers to pigs so as not to leave a trace. An
unrefined mafia in its actions, and for this reason dangerous.”
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