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History of the Mafia in Italy
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La Mafia Italiana
La Mafia ItalianaWhat is la Mafia italiana?
• Organized crime in Italy.
• “Families” of criminals.
• In certain places in Italy.
• Causes great stress and fear in some societies.
La Mafia ItalianaWhere is la Mafia italiana?
Camorra
Sacra Corona Unita
‘Ndrangheta
Cosa Nostra
La Mafia ItalianaCosa Nostra, Sicilia. Structures:
Boss
Underboss
Caporegime CaporegimeCaporegime
Soldiers Soldiers Soldiers
Advisor
Associates
La Mafia ItalianaHow did it start?
• Modern Italy formed: 1861.
• Sicily was ignored.
• Local people took it upon themselves to protect themselves and the Mafia was born.
La Mafia ItalianaTraditional Mafia
• 1860s – 1940s.
• Acted as a police in Sicily.
• Sense of honour.
• Familial ties.
• Poor people.
• Protected community.
La Mafia ItalianaTransitional Mafia
• 1950s and 1960s.
• Relationship between Mafia and politics.
• Mafia became richer.
• Moved into construction.
La Mafia ItalianaEntrepreneurial Mafia
• 1970s to today.
• Became involved in international criminal activity.
• Heavily involved in drug trafficking.
• Mafiosi themselves involved in politics.
• Became richer, more business orientated.
La Mafia ItalianaMafia in the 1980s and 1990s
• A lot more violent; many murders.
• Bombings outside Sicily; Florence, Rome, Milan.
• Drug trafficking.
• Mafia crackdown by police: Giovanni Falcone.
La Mafia ItalianaMafia in the new millennium.
• A lot quieter.
• They realized that if they weren’t in the public eye that the authorities left them alone.
• Still active in Sicily and underground activities.
• Bernardo Provenzano.
La Mafia ItalianaWhat do the Mafia do?
• Pizzo: protection (tax) of Sicilian businesses.
• Drug trafficking.
• Smuggling.
• Construction.
• Money lending.
• Refuse collection (Naples).
• Annual turnover of €6.5 billion.
La Mafia ItalianaOmertá
• Code of silence.
• No-one in Sicily talks about the Mafia because they know and fear that they will be punished.
• «La miglior parola è quella che non si dice.»
• Punishable by death.
