THE RELATIONSHIP Cosa Nostra "maintains illicit relations with the 'ndrangheta" The President of the Court of Appeal of Palermo: «It retains the capacity to infiltrate economic and social sectors» Published: 24/01/2025 – 18:49
“The investigations and subsequent trials of recent years have been able to highlight how Cosa Nostra has remained perfectly active, with ever new contacts for its needs to control the territory and, above all, has continued to maintain its old mafia rules by quickly and unscrupulously reconstituting the top management whenever the previous ones have been arrested and tried”. This is stated in the report of the president of the Court of Appeal of Palermo, Matteo Frasca, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Judicial Year scheduled for tomorrow. The criminal presence of the mafia is “still particularly active and economically flourishing today”. With reference to the structures that operate in the provinces of Agrigento and Trapani, “the most recent investigations have proven the extraordinary activity and solidity of the connection with the Palermo mafia structure. These investigations have made it possible to discover the mafia nature of certain criminal phenomena that were previously underestimated and, furthermore, to grasp the connections existing between local mafia-style crime and the various territorial economic and political-administrative realities”. Cosa nostra “not only maintains important and very frequent illicit relations with other mafia-type criminal organizations, such as the ndrangheta, but at the same time maintains the ability to infiltrate economic and social sectors with clear connections to public procurement, ecomafia, the illicit management of community funds, the control of large-scale distribution and all those mechanisms that allow the mafia consortium to obtain positions of favor in the economic and financial market, polluting and impoverishing the resistant and parallel legal market”. “The strong development of drug trafficking”, a channel of “very flourishing profits for the mafia organization that draws daily sustenance and enrichment from this illicit trade”, is of great alarm.
