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SonnyBlackstein
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Mafia to face Italian army as crime clans send murder rate soaring in Naples drug war
Italy is making plans to send in the army after a series of murders as part of a brutal mafia war in Naples, a senior minister has announced.
A deadly turf war is raging between rival Camorra clans for control of extortion and drug markets with nine victims killed since the beginning of the year.
After three murders in just 24 hours, Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told Sky News Italy: "Now in Naples we need to send in the army.
"We have a division prepared as part of our Safer Streets Operation. Now we have to adapt the regulations so we can deploy more soldiers onto the streets."
National anti-mafia prosecutor Franco Roberti said that the situation in Naples was "unrivalled in Europe".
He said: "It's exceptional in terms of breakdown in public order, it's unrivalled in Europe, worse than in the Parisian banlieues."
He told La Repubblica: "It's an exceptional situation, and I am convinced that exceptional measures are needed.
" Arrests have left voids in criminal power, making space for teenagers and under 18s who are fighting for control of the territory and the drug market."
He added: "They have masses of arms at their disposal and they are ready to kill for nothing. I don't think that at national or European level there are parallels."
Roberto Saviano, author of the bestseller Gomorrah about the Neapolitan mafia, told the newspaper: "Here normal government is a daily war linked to drugs fought by combatants who are not even of age and supported by the tradition of omerta.
"We must stop treating Naples like a normal city. It's not one. Neapolitans are forced to keep their heads down because they are living under gunfire."
Francesco Esposito, 33, a convicted drug dealer, was shot in the chest on his doorstep on Friday in a suspected hit by a rival gang.
A 24-year-old and a 21-year-old with suspected links to organised crime were shot in different locations on Thursday night.
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... me-7332092
Italy is making plans to send in the army after a series of murders as part of a brutal mafia war in Naples, a senior minister has announced.
A deadly turf war is raging between rival Camorra clans for control of extortion and drug markets with nine victims killed since the beginning of the year.
After three murders in just 24 hours, Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told Sky News Italy: "Now in Naples we need to send in the army.
"We have a division prepared as part of our Safer Streets Operation. Now we have to adapt the regulations so we can deploy more soldiers onto the streets."
National anti-mafia prosecutor Franco Roberti said that the situation in Naples was "unrivalled in Europe".
He said: "It's exceptional in terms of breakdown in public order, it's unrivalled in Europe, worse than in the Parisian banlieues."
He told La Repubblica: "It's an exceptional situation, and I am convinced that exceptional measures are needed.
" Arrests have left voids in criminal power, making space for teenagers and under 18s who are fighting for control of the territory and the drug market."
He added: "They have masses of arms at their disposal and they are ready to kill for nothing. I don't think that at national or European level there are parallels."
Roberto Saviano, author of the bestseller Gomorrah about the Neapolitan mafia, told the newspaper: "Here normal government is a daily war linked to drugs fought by combatants who are not even of age and supported by the tradition of omerta.
"We must stop treating Naples like a normal city. It's not one. Neapolitans are forced to keep their heads down because they are living under gunfire."
Francesco Esposito, 33, a convicted drug dealer, was shot in the chest on his doorstep on Friday in a suspected hit by a rival gang.
A 24-year-old and a 21-year-old with suspected links to organised crime were shot in different locations on Thursday night.
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... me-7332092
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Pogo The Clown
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Good for the Italians. They should go all the way and just round up all these mobsters. They obviously know who most of them are.
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Background on the Mob lawyer hit in Melbourne.
http://m.theage.com.au/victoria/ganglan ... njnur.html
http://m.theage.com.au/victoria/ganglan ... njnur.html
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SonnyBlackstein
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From GBB courtesy STRAX:
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/03 ... 34b01.html
http://www.palermotoday.it/foto/cronaca ... rdano.html
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/03 ... 34b01.html
http://www.palermotoday.it/foto/cronaca ... rdano.html
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Bernardo Provenzano died. Credit to who posted it on the BB. Too lazy to copy and paste. Discussion their was how long these guys live. Here its sime they dont work and get lots of sleep most likely but their they live in hiding which cant be good on the heart. Especislly Binnu who spent the ages of 30-73 on the run.
R.I.P. Binnu. Im sure Catavaio is waiting for you in hell.
R.I.P. Binnu. Im sure Catavaio is waiting for you in hell.
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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0ZT16F
By Antonella Cinelli | ROME
(Reuters) - Italian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, one of the most notorious crime figures of his time, has died in a Milan hospital at the age of 83, prison authorities said on Wednesday.
Provenzano was the undisputed head of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra Mafia from 1993 until his arrest in 2006 ended 43 years on the run.
As a young hitman in Corleone, the hill town near Palermo made famous in the Godfather films, Provenzano made a name for himself with such ruthlessness that he became known as "the tractor" because of the way he mowed down clan enemies.
After his arrest he suffered serious health problems, including cancer and Parkinson's disease, and in 2014 was transferred from a Parma prison to the San Paolo Hospital in Milan where he was still held under maximum security.
Over more than four decades Provenzano became a legendary outlaw and fugitive for evading police. Investigators believe he was in Sicily, probably often within sight of his hometown, all those years, protected by a network of local contacts.
When he was caught, Provenzano had already been convicted in absentia for a string of murders, including the 1992 killings of two anti-mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Until his arrest at the age of 73 at a farmhouse near Corleone, one of the last pictures police had of Provenzano was taken when he was just 25, in which he looked like a handsome, clean-cut captain of a soccer team.
He had turned the farmhouse into a rudimentary command center of two typewriters, a dictionary and a Bible full of home-made tabs and annotations of Old and New Testament verses.
This was how Provenzano had run the mafia for more than a decade: through writing tiny messages called "pizzini" in a code language of numbers, letters and Biblical quotations.
These were folded tens of times and then sealed in transparent tape and dispatched via a chain of messengers. The Sicilian term "pizzino" has since become common usage in Italian to denote any written message with a criminal function.
Provenzano, who never went to secondary school, wrote in often ungrammatical Italian. He assigned numbers from two to 164 to his accomplices - he was number one - and many of them did not know which number referred to which person.
Once he became the Mafia's undisputed head in 1993, he abandoned the unbridled brutality of his early years and ran it like the chief executive of a company.
The so-called "Provenzano Doctrine", which earned him the new nickname "The Accountant," was aimed at ensuring a low profile, with no more bombs or mass killings and creating consensus among the other local bosses.
(Reporting by Antonella Cinelli, writing by Gavin Jones; Editing by Gareth Jones)
By Antonella Cinelli | ROME
(Reuters) - Italian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, one of the most notorious crime figures of his time, has died in a Milan hospital at the age of 83, prison authorities said on Wednesday.
Provenzano was the undisputed head of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra Mafia from 1993 until his arrest in 2006 ended 43 years on the run.
As a young hitman in Corleone, the hill town near Palermo made famous in the Godfather films, Provenzano made a name for himself with such ruthlessness that he became known as "the tractor" because of the way he mowed down clan enemies.
After his arrest he suffered serious health problems, including cancer and Parkinson's disease, and in 2014 was transferred from a Parma prison to the San Paolo Hospital in Milan where he was still held under maximum security.
Over more than four decades Provenzano became a legendary outlaw and fugitive for evading police. Investigators believe he was in Sicily, probably often within sight of his hometown, all those years, protected by a network of local contacts.
When he was caught, Provenzano had already been convicted in absentia for a string of murders, including the 1992 killings of two anti-mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Until his arrest at the age of 73 at a farmhouse near Corleone, one of the last pictures police had of Provenzano was taken when he was just 25, in which he looked like a handsome, clean-cut captain of a soccer team.
He had turned the farmhouse into a rudimentary command center of two typewriters, a dictionary and a Bible full of home-made tabs and annotations of Old and New Testament verses.
This was how Provenzano had run the mafia for more than a decade: through writing tiny messages called "pizzini" in a code language of numbers, letters and Biblical quotations.
These were folded tens of times and then sealed in transparent tape and dispatched via a chain of messengers. The Sicilian term "pizzino" has since become common usage in Italian to denote any written message with a criminal function.
Provenzano, who never went to secondary school, wrote in often ungrammatical Italian. He assigned numbers from two to 164 to his accomplices - he was number one - and many of them did not know which number referred to which person.
Once he became the Mafia's undisputed head in 1993, he abandoned the unbridled brutality of his early years and ran it like the chief executive of a company.
The so-called "Provenzano Doctrine", which earned him the new nickname "The Accountant," was aimed at ensuring a low profile, with no more bombs or mass killings and creating consensus among the other local bosses.
(Reporting by Antonella Cinelli, writing by Gavin Jones; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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Secret 'Ndrangheta cupola 'picked men for parliament'
(ANSA) - Rome, July 15 - Italian police on Friday said they had uncovered a secret cupola of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia that they said interacted systematically with police and institutions and picked "affiliates" for parliament.
Arrest warrants were issued for five people including a Senator in Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) party, Antonio Caridi. Police said the structure was "able to dictate the strategic action" of the whole organisation and to "interact systematically and discreetly with political, institutional and business circles. FI Senator Caridi is one of the five people involved in the operation police said. His arrest warrant has been sent to the Senate immunity panel. Warrants were also issued for former Democratic Socialist MP Paolo Romeo, in jail since May 9, former regional councillor Alberto Sarra, lawyer Giorgio De Stefano and Francesco Chirico. The cupola picked "affiliates to be placed in the Italian parliament", police said. The cupola had a "decisive role" in conditioning many "electoral appointments in a municipal, provincial and regional" sphere", police said.
Source: http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/07 ... 97f57.html
(ANSA) - Rome, July 15 - Italian police on Friday said they had uncovered a secret cupola of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia that they said interacted systematically with police and institutions and picked "affiliates" for parliament.
Arrest warrants were issued for five people including a Senator in Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) party, Antonio Caridi. Police said the structure was "able to dictate the strategic action" of the whole organisation and to "interact systematically and discreetly with political, institutional and business circles. FI Senator Caridi is one of the five people involved in the operation police said. His arrest warrant has been sent to the Senate immunity panel. Warrants were also issued for former Democratic Socialist MP Paolo Romeo, in jail since May 9, former regional councillor Alberto Sarra, lawyer Giorgio De Stefano and Francesco Chirico. The cupola picked "affiliates to be placed in the Italian parliament", police said. The cupola had a "decisive role" in conditioning many "electoral appointments in a municipal, provincial and regional" sphere", police said.
Source: http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/07 ... 97f57.html