A 29-year-old man, Dino Salvato, was shot dead in Palermo. He was shot in the face on the western outskirts of the city. He had small criminal records. A crowd took to the streets after the shooting. The victims' relatives, desperate, crying and screaming in pain. The agents were busy keeping the order.

Italian police on Tuesday night arrested 11 representatives of the Noce clan, including its bosses and high-ranking members, who organized a local religious festival in order to make money, La Repubblica newspaper reported. In September 2015, the mafiosi staged a sagra, Italian local festival, in Palermo which was called "The Holy Heart of Jesus." The earnings of which went straight into the pockets of the criminal group. According to the investigators, Cosa Nostra has managed to re-establish its influence in the region since 130 of its members were released from jail and returned to criminal activities. About a dozen of them have again entered the leadership of mafia clans.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...gainst-italys-president-blocks-populist/

Death threats made against Italy's president after he blocks populist government

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...ld-clue-to-recovery-of-stolen-caravaggio

Former mobster may hold clue to recovery of stolen Caravaggio

This week, the Palermo prosecutor asked 20 years for Carmelo Bartolone, considered head of Bagheria clan, 12 for Pietro Flamia, 7 for Luigi Di Salvo and Rosario La Mantia, 6 for Alessandro Vega and 2 for Antonio Lepre. The charges against them, for various reasons, are those of the Mafia association and extortion. For a seventh defendant, Gioacchino Di Bella, the absolution was instead requested.

The operation carried out by the carabinieri, followed a strong reaction from the part of the traders. Over thirty of them, decided to collaborate in order to free themselves from the mafia yoke and from the fear that caused them to oppose the lace, an illicit tax capable of gripping the whole local economic fabric.

The collaboration of some repentants like Sergio Flamia, Stefano Lo Verso and Antonino Zarcone, was fundamental during the investigations. Their contributions were used to frame the many pieces of the puzzle reconstructed by the DDA and the military.

Dont know if anyone says if, but i really appreciate these updates on Euro OC... keep em coming my man!! GREAT STUFF..

Hollander is one of the best posters on here,if not the best,he always post updates on various groups from Europe. Since the days of real deal,his posts keep me updated.

Thanks guys, but I'm sure some news from Italy slipped my attention. It's difficult to keep up with four major organizations.

A typical Dutch trait: false modesty

For real though, you always add quality stuff, which is greatly appreciated by me too H.

Another police blitz in the hunt for Matteo Denaro. Yesterday, in the areas of Castelvetrano, Santa Ninfa and Mazara del Vallo the police carried out dozens of searches against the supporters of the fugitive godfather. Investigated 17 people including Francesco Burrafato, 76, former head physician of the hospital of Castelvetrano. Denaro's hideout was discovered during the searches.

http://www.dw.com/en/migrants-put-mafia-mobsters-behind-bars-in-palermo/a-44194529


As i've mentioned before.. The Sicilian mafia has lost a loooot of power. I mean come on, people nowadays dont even pay their pizzos. Maybe its just fake news, anybody who lives down there that can say more precisly how it is?

http://www.dw.com/en/migrants-put-mafia-mobsters-behind-bars-in-palermo/a-44194529

Migrants put mafia mobsters behind bars in Palermo

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...a-threat-reveals-her-face-for-first-time

'It’s like coming back to life': Italian MP reveals her face to public for first time

that sicilian mafia is weaker than the past, particularly 1980s when it was at its peak, it is not a new thing, it was discussed tons of time so far
anyway the vast majority of shopkeppers still pay the protection, only a few denounces it and only if highly pressed by police usually (there is a new italian law that punish who pay the protection); also who denounces is often put under police protection, so the threat is till big
rubino and his gang were not even mafia members, they were a group of young criminals who terrorized migrant shoopkeepers, but according to police they were not members of mafia, and ballarò is only 1% of palermo

Nearly half pay up these days, in the 1990s at least four-fifths of Sicilian firms paid protection money.

half is a bit low, i think at least 70% still pay, it also depends on the areas, in some cities like palermo or catania 90% sure pay

Even here most of clubs/cafes/restaurants need to pay. I am sure in Sicily still around 70-80% pay

Where is here if i may ask?

Trends in extortion payments by companies to Italy’s Mafia

https://www.economist.com/business/...on-payments-by-companies-to-italys-mafia

I thought you know where i'm from,we talked already about that. It's Belgrade,Serbia. You are also forced to used security,which is controlled by 3 groups in whole city.

Maybe i've asked this before but i cant remember.. Do you guys think that Sicilian Mafia at its prime made more money than the Ndrangheta does today? They controlled the Heroin if im not wrong, the Ndrangheta controls much of the Cocaine.. Which is/was more profitable for the groups.

heroin at tha time was by far the most lucrative and sicilian mafia produced it in sicily, so i think sicilian mafia made by far more money with heroin in the past than 'ndrangheta with coke today, calabrians have to be export it from south america, they don't produce it in itay

https://www.courthousenews.com/mafia-buried-palermo-sicily-breathes-fresher-air/

Mafia Buried, Palermo Breathes Fresher Air

Italian police on Thursday arrested 10 suspected chieftains of Agrigento and Palermo mafia clans on suspicion of mafia crimes.
In another operation, Carabinieri arrested 27 people in Catania on suspicion of drug trafficking.

Mafia, an operation against the Cammarata family from Riesi. It
shed light on numerous murders, including arrests in the North
Twenty people in prison , five under house arrest . It is the result of the De reditu operation , with which the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Caltanissetta shed light on the bloody events that occurred in Riesi , in the province of Caltanissetta, at the end of the Nineties. Specifically, the investigators have dealt with six murders and two attempted murders , in a survey that also involved the production of drugs and a round of extortion. All in the shadow of the local mafia family. The accusations are in various capacities as a mafia association, an association aimed at the sale of drugs, murder, attempted homicide, an illegal port of arms and extortion.

photos of the arrested of the antimafia operation 're deditu' against cosa nostra family in riesi

http://caltanissetta.gds.it/2018/07/02/mafia-a-riesi-nomi-e-foto-degli-arrestati_878726/

The assets related to Luciano Salanitro, 51, were confiscated, considered close to the mafia "Santapaola-Ercolano". In particular, the "Rivombrosa" bar in Via Vittorio Emanuele, at the corner with the Via Del Plebiscito in Catania.Together with the bar activity, two apartments in the city center, a car, two motorcycles and several bank accounts were confiscated In total of 1.3 million euros

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/home/primo-piano/70957-i-nuovi-boss-della-mafia.html


The new bosses of the mafia

Details Published: 07 July 2018
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After the death of Riina and Provenzano, the reaction of the new mafia bosses in Palermo is to decide strategies and make decisions through extended meetings in which representatives of different mandates participate. The protagonists of these shared meetings, which have nothing to do with the old provincial committee of Cosa Nostra, are often old bosses who after years of detention are returning to freedom, ready to recover the power they had temporarily given. Many of them are famous representatives of families affiliated to the cosche for a very long time. And it is precisely these illustrious names that worry the magistrates.
Between new and old bosses who now return to freedom define the scenarios of the mafia of today and tomorrow.
These are names known as Calogero Lo Piccolo , son of the baron of San Lorenzo Salvatore Lo Piccolo , who now runs free to Palermo.
Although the Lo Piccolo dynasty has been decimated by arrests and convictions, the temporal limit of the latter and the recent release of many well-known names in the Cosa Nostra of Palermo, defines new balances of power that are established on the territory with new personalities that are affirmed after investigations and blitz of the police agitated the waters of organized crime.
In the post-Lo Piccolo period, inside Biondino took our place. Giuseppe Biondino, son of Salvatore Biondino, a man of confidence in Riina, was arrested last January. As is clear from the statements of the repentant Sergio Macaluso , head of Resuttana, the appointment of Giuseppe Biondino to capomafia was made by Giovanni Niosiche assigned him an orphaned area of ​​one of the most charismatic leaders of the Palermo mafia, Giulio Caporrimo . The latter was one of the faithful of the Lo Piccolo line and will soon end his prison sentence. Nunzio Serio
is also among those arrested who will soon be released, one of the men who represented the continuity with Caporrimo. Serio will be released, despite the sentence in Cassation to over 16 years in prison that will not be applied because of the so-called fungibility of the sentence. Together with Nunzio Serio , Giulio Caporrimo and Calogero Lo Piccolo , there are also Domenico Serio, Giuseppe Lo Verde and Massimo Troia who share the territory of San Lorenzo.
Analyzing the Cosa Nostra dei Biondino, we can also reconstruct the regents of the various Palermitan mandates in the light of the next releases.
The mandate of Passo di Rigano (Uditore area) has Baldassare Miglioreas a predominant figure. Better is the entrepreneur of the earth-moving sector that was among the arrested of the Perseus operation, a blitz that in 2008 prevented the attempt to convene the provincial committee of Cosa Nostra. Migliore has established relations with Biondino over time and has participated in his appointment as capomafia of San Lorenzo, decided during a meeting in which several representatives of other mandates such as Filippo Bisconti of Belmonte Mezzagno and Giuseppe Sansone dell'Uditore, both free today.
From this joint appointment of exponents linked to different mandates, we understand how the Mafia paradigm of Cosa nostra is increasingly inclined towards decision-making collegiality linked to intertwining between families belonging to different territories that come together to choose the boss of San Lorenzo.
In recent years many of those who have escaped the Corleone carnage of the '80s have returned to Italy. He returned to Italy from the United States Tommaso Inzerillo who escaped the charge of life imprisonment in America for the murder of two of his relatives. After his release, in 2005 he was again arrested under Operation Gotha.
Among the old names that come back from the past is that of Salvatore Grecowho in 2008 was involved in a measure against Rosario Inzerillo , the historic boss of Passo di Rigano. Sergio Giannusa and Gaetano Scotto
are again free at Resuttana . The first was one of Salvatore Fidanzati's men , boss dell'Acquasanta while Scotto was one of the men who acted as a bridge, even in the massacre of Via d'Amelio, between the vertices of Cosa nostra and the secret services diverted, according to the statements of the repentant . Also in the address of Resuttana, the name of Giuseppe Corona emerges from the information , condemned as a young man for the killing of a peer. His father was killed in the contrasts between thighs. Today for law enforcement
Giuseppe Corona turns out to be a figure to be framed. From recent investigations it would turn out to be the man of investments belonging to the Mafia powerful of the Madonia.
Among the prisoners belonging to the Tommaso Natale, Resuttana and Acquasanta area there are also Stefano Scalici , Salvatore Castiglione , Antonino Tarantino and Antonino Caruso . Francesco Di Pace , the man who dealt with the business of advertising screens in Palermo on behalf of Lo Piccolo, has also completed his detention period .
From the beginning of 2017 to today, a group of bosses arrested in 2011 in the context of investigations into the absconding ofGianni Nicchi including Vincenzo Annatelli , Giovanni Tarantino , Giuseppe Zizo and Mariano Morfino .
Also Giuseppe Bellino will soon be freed, as well as Filippo Burgio , owner of a motorcycle dealership turned into the post office used for Gianni Nicchi's inaction .
Many of those convicted of the Gotha trial have also been released, including Gaetano Badagliacca and Pietro Badagliacca of Rocca Mezzomonreale, Settimo Mineo and Carmelo Cancemi di Pagliarelli.
In Bagheria he is now at homeGiuseppe Scaduto known as 'Pino', another well-known name with an important past behind it. Gregorio di Giovanni, head of Porta Nuova,
is also free of a fine sentence , accused of having been the instigator of the Fragalà murder. Over the years, the Porta Nuova mandate has been the focus of tensions and intertwining family members that led to the murder of Giuseppe Dainotti and Giuseppe Di Giacomo . In the Palermo area, instead, Gaspare Rizzuto , son-in-law of Emanuele Lipari , comes forward . Meanwhile, Nicola Milan has completed his prison term and today the Gaspare Parisi is free at the Borgo

which once held the cashier of the mafia family to which it belonged.
Among the freedmen between Villagrazia and Santa Maria di Gesù are Salvatore Adelfio , Francesco Guercio , Sandro Capizzi , Massimo Mancino , Girolamo Rao and Ignazio Traina .
Capizzi was the boss of Villagrazia who, sentenced to life imprisonment, was released from prison for health problems. Together with Giovanni Adelfio he was one of those who wanted to convene the Provincial Commission of Cosa Nostra no longer convened since the day of the capture of Riina. At this meeting they would have to participate in old bosses including Pino Scadutoand others today again in circulation.
Among them there would also be the boss of Brancaccio Lo Nigro , a fugitive year later arrested because in possession of a fake document.
In Brancaccio, however, Fabio Scimò , Maurizio Difede , Angelo Vinchiaturo and Giuseppe Guttadauro are free . The latter is the doctor who in 2001, speaking with a colleague, clearly said that of the murder of the Church "whoever fucked up fucking kill him" and that "And why we had to do him this favor ..." . Giuseppe Guttadauro , as well as being the brother of the brother-in-law of Matteo Messina Denarowas the pivot of the investigations involving the former councilor Mimmo Miceli and the former president of the Region, Salvatore Cuffaro . The latter today lives in Rome as well as Benedetto Gragnano , brother of the two stragista bosses. Guglielmo Ficarra , Francesco Sciarratta and Salvatore Alfano
ended their sentence at the Noce . Among the old charismatic leaders today is home to Franco Picone while Fabio Chiovaro today is head of the mandate of the Walnut. Among the known prisoners of the province, in Prizzi there is Masino Cannella
, old councilor of Provenzano, the seventy year old nephew of Totò Riina , Giovanni Grizzaffi and Cosimo Michele Sciarabba .
New and old names are intertwined in the hegemony of the mandates of Palermo and the province.
Struggles of power to conquer or reaffirm the hegemony also continue today that the old bosses return free and despite the punishment and imprisonment remain so because from Cosa Nostra it comes out only because one repents or dies and this history teaches it. And the mafiosi released from prison who do not repent shortly after I am immediately re-arrested.

San Cataldo, the hands of the Mafia on procurement: 16 arrests, there are also officials of the Municipality

The hands of the Mafia on public contracts managed by the City of San Cataldo in the waste and construction sectors. Sixteen precautionary measures were taken for people close to our Nissena, municipal officials and entrepreneurs.

At the conclusion of complex investigations in the areas of the fight against organized crime and crimes against the Public Administration, coordinated by the Dda of Caltanissetta, patrols of the financial police financial police force group together with the soldiers of the Carabinieri of Caltanissetta have performed a 'order of personal precautionary measures against sixteen people, issued by the investigating judge of the court of Caltanissetta.

Among the people investigated are people close to the Mafia family of San Cataldo, officials and managers of the Municipality and a carabiniere in service.
Following the investigations, the investigating judge issued an order for custody in prison for the mafia association, an external competition in association with the Mafia and aggravated extortions against eight people considered close to the Mafia family of San Cataldo: Gioacchino Chitè; Calogero Maurizio Di Vita; Massimo Scalzo; Luigi Vivacqua; Cristian Ivan Callari; Alessandro Scalzo; Angelo Giumento; Domenico Terenzio, carabiniere in service at the tenness of San Cataldo.

While the house arrest was ordered for aggravated extortion for Salvatore Raimondi, a person considered to be inside the mafia family of San Cataldo; the entrepreneur legal representative of Ecolgest soc.coop. to r.l accused of corruption and troubled freedom of the charms; the former director of the technical office of the Municipality of San Cataldo Paolo Iannello.

The precautionary measure of the obligation to submit to the judicial police for corruption offenses against the employee of the Municipality of San Cataldo Medico was ordered; the freelance engineer Davide Francesco Iannello, the employee of the Municipality of San Cataldo Salvatore Schifano; the freelance architect, recipient of assignments by the municipality of San Cataldo Alfonso Gaetano Ippolito.

The investigation, coordinated by the Dda of Caltanissetta, began in 2016. The investigators were monitoring the assets of the Mafia family of San Cataldo. In the first phase of the investigations, carried out by the Carabinieri of Caltanissetta, mafia infiltrations emerged in the management of the urban solid waste removal service taken by the Municipality of San Cataldo.

The mafia family with intimidation would have imposed the cooperative "Geo Agriturismo" of San Cataldo, which with the company "Ecolgest" was responsible for the collection of solid urban waste, the continued recruitment of characters close to the mafia family who would often perceive the salary without carrying out any work activity.

From the investigation would have emerged several episodes of extortion by the Mafia family of San Cataldo at the top of which there would be Calogero Maurizio Di Vita, Gioacchino Chitè, Massimo Scalzo, Raimondo Scalzo and Luigi Vivacqua.

The interception activities would have made it possible to ascertain that Paolo Iannello, already head of the Municipal Technical Office of San Cataldo, together with his son Davide Francesco, had reached corrective agreements with Liborio Lipari, administrator of the company "Ecolgest", to disturb the administrative regularity of the public tender tender to allow it to be awarded to the "Multiecoplast" company of Messina, leader of ATI with the aforementioned "Ecolgest" company participating in the tender.

The interception activities carried out by the personnel of the Carabinieri of Caltanissetta revealed that Domenico Terenzio, a soldier of the Arma in service at the carabinieri of San Cataldo, systematically informed members of the Mafia group or their joint investigations: he was charged with allegations of violation of official secrecy, forgery and, above all, external competition in the mafia association.

Financial police seized three companies, as well as 66 properties (including a villa with swimming pool, apartments and land), 19 cars, 36 bank accounts and 5 life policies, worth almost € 21 million.
The addressee of the seizure is Pietro Formoso, collaborators of justice have indicated him as 'man of honor' of the mafia family of Misilmeri (Palermo), bound by close bonds of friendship to the former head of the mandamento Benedetto Spera. He would have accumulated a fortune thanks to drug trafficking. Formoso has recently been arrested.