Senior members of Italy ‘s three most powerful mafia groups may have formed a formidable alliance after images emerge of them sharing a meal together
Published October 27, 2023
- Members of the ‘Ndrangheta, Camorra and Cosa Nostra were allegedly pictured
- The meeting was reportedly one of many that police had under surveillance
- It may show the emergence of a grand crime coalition in the north of Italy
There are fears Italy‘s three most powerful mafia groups may have formed a formidable alliance after images emerge of leading figures sharing a meal together.
Senior members from the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate based in the peninsular region of Calabria, the Camorra of Naples and Cosa Nostra, which is based in Sicily, were allegedly caught on camera sharing a meal of pasta and wine together in a garden in April 2021.
The meeting was reportedly one of many that police had under surveillance with prosecutors warning the emergence of a grand crime coalition in the affluent north of Italy.
‘This is Milan,’ one alleged Camorra mafia don was heard saying to an ally. ‘We’re not in Sicily, we’re not in Rome, we’re not in Naples, this is where we’re doing the good stuff,’ according to a Telegraph report.
A suspected member of Cosa Nostra allegedly replied: ‘We’ve built an empire.’
Sicilian mafia boss Salvatore ‘Toto’ Riina, nicknamed ‘The Beast’, succumbed to his battle with cancer at a prison hospital in Parma shortly after being put in medically-induced coma in 2017. Rina was believed to have ordered the killing of more that 150 people
Casalesi clan mafia boss Michele Zagaria being escorted out of the Police Headquarters in Caserta Italy in 2011. His clan was one of the Camorra’s most feared families
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SOURCE: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12679141/Mafia-Italy-powerful-Ndrangheta-Camorra-Cosa-Nostra.html
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Published October 27, 2023
Godfathers from Italy’s three most powerful organised crime gangs were filmed at a secret summit mid fears they have joined forces to form a super mafia.
Dons from the Ndrangheta of Calabria, Camorra of Naples and Cosa Nostra, based in Sicily, were caught on camera sharing pasta and wine together in a garden. It was one of dozens of meetings dating back two years police had under surveillance.
Prosecutors have warned the trio may have formed an unholy alliance to create a grand crime coalition in Italy’s rich north. One alleged Camorra don was heard saying to an ally: “This is Milan. We’re not in Sicily, we’re not in Rome, we’re not in Naples – this is where we’re doing the good stuff.”
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SOURCE: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/super-mafia-italys-most-powerful-31295522
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Senior mafiosi from the ‘Ndrangheta, Camorra and Cosa Nostra clans were caught on camera sharing a meal of pasta and wine together
Published October 26, 2023
Leading figures from Italy’s three most powerful mafia groups have been covertly filmed meeting, amid fears they have formed a historic super-mafia alliance.
Senior mafiosi from the ‘Ndrangheta of Calabria, the Camorra of Naples and Cosa Nostra, which is based in Sicily, were caught on camera sharing a meal of pasta and wine together in a garden.
The encounter, in April 2021, was one of dozens of such meetings that the police had under surveillance, with prosecutors warning of the emergence of a grand crime coalition in Italy’s wealthy north.
“This is Milan,” one alleged Camorra mafia don was heard saying to an ally. “We’re not in Sicily, we’re not in Rome, we’re not in Naples, this is where we’re doing the good stuff.”
The ally, an alleged member of Cosa Nostra, replied: “We’ve built an empire.”
New mafia bosses keep low profile
The three mafia organisations are making hundreds of millions of euros by investing in legitimate businesses in Milan, a city better known for fine food, fashion houses and elegant boulevards. It is a long way from their roots in the sun-baked south of Italy.
Prosecutors said the three powerful criminal organisations had put aside their historic rivalries to form a grand alliance which is taking advantage of business opportunities in the affluent Lombardy region of the north, in what one Italian newspaper described as a “Copernican revolution”.
They have forged “an evolved criminal network” after agreeing “a stable and enduring accord between Calabrian, Sicilian and Roman mafia members, a sort of confederation,” prosecutors said.
The mafia in Rome, which is a relatively recent creation, is a hybrid of Camorra and ‘Ndrangheta criminals.
Unlike the trigger-happy mafiosi of popular imagination, the new breed of mafia bosses tries to keep a low profile, engaging more in white collar crime than shoot-outs on the streets.
They are investing profits from drug trafficking into legitimate businesses in sectors such as construction, hospitals and airport car parks, fruit and vegetable markets and even government contracts for building or refurbishing prisons.
They are also accused of skimming off Covid-19 recovery funds doled out by the Italian state.
