News from Italy

[Strax]

Another murder in Naples , Raffaele Malvone 29, was shot dead around 1pm by 2 people on scooter. He was close to Gionta clan, he is 3rd member of Gionta clan who was shot in last 2 weeks and 10th shooting in Naples since beginning of the year.

[Strax]

Andrea Fiore 54, was shot and killed in Rome , someone rang his home door , when he opened it , he got shot. He was close friend of Luigi Finizio who was killed two weeks ago in the same area,Luigi Finizio is from Naples and close to Camorra and mafia in Rome.

[Strax]

Police seize arsenal, arrest one in Rome

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/genera ... 58cf8.html

[Strax]

Andrea Fiore 54, was shot and killed in Rome , someone rang his home door , when he opened it , he got shot. He was close friend of Luigi Finizio who was killed two weeks ago in the same area,Luigi Finizio is from Naples and close to Camorra and mafia in Rome.

All of this in Rome started when Sergio "Segione" Placidi fell from fifth floor apartment in the Magliana,Rome. He was probably thrown.

[Strax]

Bruno Solla 60, was shot and killed in Naples. His brother Salvatore Solla was killed in 2016.

[Wiseguy]

Terror in Rome as wave of mob-style killings brings return of mafia-like violence
Italian city rocked by series of brazen executions, leaving residents to fear that brutal crime of the 80s is back
By Paddy Agnew IN ROME
9 April 2023


Luigi Finizio was at the petrol station close to his home in the rough Rome suburb of Torpignattara late one night last month.
As the 51-year-old filled up his car, two motorcyclists pulled up next to him and within seconds had fired eight bullets, killing him instantly.

Five days earlier, another man was gunned down in a hail of bullets by masked men on a scooter, in an eerily similar execution-style killing.

It was the third mob-style execution in this corner of the city in a week - a wave of targeted murders that has left residents fearing a return of mafia violence that rocked Rome in the 80s.

Though these three killings had seemingly little connection, police believe they were victims of a bloody struggle between organised crime families to control the Eternal City’s burgeoning cocaine market.

“There is no doubt that it was the work of some professional hitmen,“ one police source confirmed to a local paper, pointing to links uncovered between Mr Finizio and the powerful Sienese gang.

The brazenness of the killings, coupled with the fact that Rome had not experienced such a reality for several decades, led Roberto Gualtieri, Rome's mayor, to sound the alarm.

There is a “criminal escalation with the third murder in Rome in a few days", he wrote on Twitter. “We must fight this organised crime and drug trafficking.”

The newspaper Il Corriere della Sera made a calculation - in the last six months alone, there have been around 20 homicides in the Italian capital, on top of 15 suspected gang-related shootings.

One judge said he believed the police round-up in recent months of some of the biggest crime lords, including the Cosa Nostra’s Matteo Messina Denaro, has left an unprecedented power vacuum and sparked a street war to control the lucrative drug market.

“Rome is increasingly resembling Naples, where clans that make up the Camorra mafia fight each other to control neighbourhoods, and where there is no overarching criminal power structure,” said judge Alfonso Sabella.

“People haven’t really woken up to what is going on in Rome, and I fear attention will only be paid when a passer-by is hit by a stray bullet,” he said.

Writing in the daily La Repubblica newspaper, Massimo Lugli, an expert on criminal gangs, wondered if his city was seeing a return of the bad old times when the Magliana, the Pesciaroli or the Marsigliesi gangs effectively ran Rome.

Federica Angeli, an investigative journalist for La Repubblica who has been under police protection for the last decade for her reporting on the Spada clan, told The Telegraph: “People in my community did not want to know me,” she said, after she had published an explosive investigation into the Spada family.

“People here in [the Roman seaside town] Ostia were frightened. There were bars where they wouldn’t even serve me coffee.”
She has seen a real change in public attitude towards mafia gangs in recent years, however.

Today, residents who were once “frightened” to report anything have raised their heads in what she calls a sort of “cultural revolution”.

“Falcone [the great Sicilian mafia investigator killed by Cosa Nostra in 1992] used to say that the mafia is not unbeatable, that it is a human enterprise and that, as such, it has a beginning and it will have an end,” she said.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... xecutions/

[Uncle Pete]

What are some of the organizations active in Rome?
Is it true the most powerful groups in Rome are actually Gypsies? Are they respected by the Italians or do they operate in their own sphere of influence?

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What are some of the organizations active in Rome?
Is it true the most powerful groups in Rome are actually Gypsies? Are they respected by the Italians or do they operate in their own sphere of influence?

probably 'Ndrangheta and Camorra are the most powerful nowadays, but there is also Cosa Nostra and several local gangs, included the gypsies (Casamonica and Spada)

[Strax]

What are some of the organizations active in Rome?
Is it true the most powerful groups in Rome are actually Gypsies? Are they respected by the Italians or do they operate in their own sphere of influence?

There are some really powerful gypsy clans in Rome: Spinelli,Spada,Casamonica,Di Silvio,Di Gugliemo,Di Rocco.There are also very powerful people from Rome .Massimo Carminati also known as "King of Rome" ,together with Salvatore Buzzi and others from mafia capitale. Police seized 27 million euros from Carminati and Buzzi few years ago.Salvatore Buzzi brought votes to the former mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno during 2014 European elections with the help of the 'Ndrina Mancuso, also governor of Lazio Nicola Zingaretti was connected to mafia capitale thru Giovanni "The Billionaire" De Carlo , Sicilian mafia 'representative' in Rome.

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'Ndrangheta dominates Italian crime scene - report
Syndicate's reach all over Italy and beyond

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - The 'Ndrangheta mafia is the dominant force on the Italian crime scene, with a reach that goes well beyond its tradition homeland in Calabria, a report to parliament by the DIA anti-mafia investigative directorate said on Thursday.
It said the syndicate was present in almost all of Italy's regions and many foreign countries too, including Spain, France, Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Canada, the United States, Colombia, Peru and Argentina.

It said it had acquired this lead role thanks to its cohesive structure and 'military' capacities, and strong ties with the South American drugs cartels.
It added that, in recent years, the 'Ndrangheta has also developed logistics operations for its drugs trafficking in western Africa, in particular in Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau and Ghana.
The 'Ndrangheta is one of Italy's four big organized crime syndicates along with Sicily's Cosa Nostra, Campania's Camorra and Puglia's Sacra Corona Unita.

[Uncle Pete]

What are some of the organizations active in Rome?
Is it true the most powerful groups in Rome are actually Gypsies? Are they respected by the Italians or do they operate in their own sphere of influence?

There are some really powerful gypsy clans in Rome: Spinelli,Spada,Casamonica,Di Silvio,Di Gugliemo,Di Rocco.There are also very powerful people from Rome .Massimo Carminati also known as "King of Rome" ,together with Salvatore Buzzi and others from mafia capitale. Police seized 27 million euros from Carminati and Buzzi few years ago.Salvatore Buzzi brought votes to the former mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno during 2014 European elections with the help of the 'Ndrina Mancuso, also governor of Lazio Nicola Zingaretti was connected to mafia capitale thru Giovanni "The Billionaire" De Carlo , Sicilian mafia 'representative' in Rome.

Thanks Strax. It seems like those Gypsies clans like the Spada and Casamonica are very active and powerful.

I’m curious as to how deep they are able to penetrate the legitimate society of Rome given they are gypsies. Do they stick to themselves? Are they mostly involved in blue collar rackets and drug dealing? Do they sit down with the Calabrians, Neopolitans and Sicilian representatives in Rome?

Also, do you know if the Banda della Magliana is still active? Would they be considered the most powerful “homegrown” Italian organization in Rome?

Thanks in advance

[AntComello]

Excuse my ignorance but what exactly is a gypsy clan?

[Strax]

Thanks Strax. It seems like those Gypsies clans like the Spada and Casamonica are very active and powerful.

I’m curious as to how deep they are able to penetrate the legitimate society of Rome given they are gypsies. Do they stick to themselves? Are they mostly involved in blue collar rackets and drug dealing? Do they sit down with the Calabrians, Neopolitans and Sicilian representatives in Rome?

Also, do you know if the Banda della Magliana is still active? Would they be considered the most powerful “homegrown” Italian organization in Rome?

Thanks in advance

Gypsies keeps marrying each other if by that you mean stick to themselves,then yes. But when it comes to organized crime they must work with Calabrians,Sicilians and Neapolitans, mafias from South are way too powerful to be ignored, Fasciani-Spada alliance exists for more than 20 years now,Fasciani is sicilian mafia clan in Rome with ties to Cuntrera-Caruana. Gypsies are involved in everything really , Di Silvio clan brought votes to Angelo Tripodi who is the leader of the Lega Nord around 25 people got arrested for that few years ago. They are great choice when it comes to getting votes to politicians , according to police Spada clan have around 1000 members.

Banda della Magliana doesn't exist since late 1990's, there are members who are active to this day. Well most powerful individual in Rome is ex-magliana member Massimo Carminati, he is very interesting character that manages to avoid long prison term for 40 years, his first arrest was due to Magliana weapons that were stored in the basement of Italy’s health ministry, he was acquited, later he got arrested with some members of P2 and secret services(even general Pietro Musumeci,P2 member, who was a general and deputy director of Italy's military intelligence agency )for 1980 Bologna massacre that killed 85 people, they were trying to plant evidence, he was acquitted at appeal in 2000. Then in 2003 he was on trial for 1979 murder of Mino Pecorelli, the editor of political weekly who was also P2 member. He got acquitted for that too. Then in 2017 he got sentenced to 20 years for 'mafia capitale' case, later that was reduced to 14 years and six months,then sentence was revoked and he is free since 2020.

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Excuse my ignorance but what exactly is a gypsy clan?

it is a gang made up of people of gypsy ethnicity (Roma or Sinti); most gypsies have lived in Italy for centuries

[motorfab]

There is no gypsies in the US ? It's not just Italian, you have different ethnicities. It's not really a gang either, although they have a terrible reputation.

Gypsy is the general word but it depends of the country: in Spain/Portugal it's the Gypsies, in France/Italia/Balkans it's the Manouches (not sure if there is a English word for that), Eastern-Europe it's the Roms, etc ...

According to wiki, the origins of the Gypsies are Spain and South of France

Basically they are nomads people, they never stay at the same place very long time. For example, if you saw the movie Snatch, the character played by Brad Pitt is a gypsy. Another example of Gypsies are the Gypsy Kings band, you can hear them in the movie The Big Lebowski covering Hotel California (Jesuuuuuuus !)

Sorry for this out topics, but I was surprised to see that people didn't know what a Gypsy is. I guess it's very much European then