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| European governments do not seem to realize it, but the gangs are getting stronger and global issues, especially the 'Ndrangheta, writes Philip Willan.
Carabinieri and police are getting better at filming their operations, to show results in newspapers and television and the public. When, some years ago, the Italian police have been helping their French colleagues to stop a boss of the 'Ndrangheta in southern France have been applauded by passers-by seeing weapons in hand and an undercover policeman who went on, thought it was the set of a film. But fighting crime is not always so exciting.
Just talk to the anti-Mafia prosecutors in Reggio Calabria to see that. In the summer of 2007, the massacre in Duisburg sounded the alarm about the dangers of the Calabrian Mafia in Europe. In Brussels, however, have turned a deaf ear. And even in Duisburg.
A prosecutor of the quiet German town denied the request of prosecutors to seize reggini three pizzerias: according to investigators, were used as bases for the "bet" foreign San Luca feud. The Italian request, explained in a document 65-page, was rejected by a decision of three lines.
The prosecutor did not want to seize the pizza between the owners because there were people with no ties to the crime. The seizure was to send a message to the 'Ndrangheta: Europe fights you, you looked everywhere you go. The message instead is: just put a head of clean wood in your property, to avoid seizures.
Even the last election campaign was exciting for those who are at the forefront in the fight against organized crime. Candidates are reminded of the theme at the end, saying only the words of the rite against the Mafia. And even less reassuring was Marcello Dell'Utri, sentenced at first instance for collusion with the Mafia, and Silvio Berlusconi. Both praised the heroism of former mob boss and groom Arcore Vittorio Mangano, who died in prison, which would have resisted the offers of the judiciary and refused to invent false allegations against her former employer.
Who wants to learn more about the Calabrian mafia, the criminal organization is now more rich and powerful in Italy and Europe, can read the report of the last parliamentary anti-Mafia parliamentary commission. The text, signed by President Francesco Forgione (journalist and writer and member of the Communist Refoundation), describes a puzzling situation: "It has become increasingly blurred, in whole areas of Calabria, the boundary between the state and the interests of the 'Ndrangheta. "
The admission of national anti-Mafia prosecutor Piero Grasso is disarming:" In some countries such as Africa, Plate and St. Luke, is the state which should seek to infiltrate. "While Brussels, Berlin and Rome are distracted, Calabria in danger of becoming what the tribal areas of Pakistan have become Al Qaeda. According to Forgione, the comparison is legitimate in both of the cases it is a quiet backwater where planning the conquest of the West. Al Qaeda wants to do it with bombs, the Philip Willan Calabrian mafia with the money made from trafficking in cocaine.
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