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My answer through articles includes your question.The Mafia in Europe: in Germany, silence that smells of compromiseby Giorgio Bongiovanni and Aaron Pettinari"Mrs. Merkel, remain unshakable!" is the title of the article that appeared in the online version of "Die Welt" by columnist Christoph B. Schiltz, in which the German government is asked not to give in to Italian demands on coronabonds because "the mafia is waiting for European aid".
We say it now. It is probable that the criminal organizations will try to insert themselves in the financing folds and intercept possible liquidity, but to use the argument to abandon Italy to its destiny in this very serious moment of emergency is a serious and extremely dangerous fact, because without the intervention of the State, also thanks to the contribution of the European Union, one would risk handing over a large slice of the country to the mafias. The contributions to companies, small and medium entrepreneurs, workers, and families, want to go against this eventuality: to prevent organized crime, thanks to the rivers of money they have at their disposal, to represent the new Welfare to cling to.
The central knot that "Die Welt" pretends not to know is that that of the mafia is not an "Italian issue", but extends dramatically to the whole of Europe.Post-Berlin Wall investmentsIn Germany, silence on the subject has reigned for years, despite the numerous investigations conducted by both the Italian and foreign authorities, demonstrating how, precisely in Germany, the mafia has invested heavily "contributing" to the economic growth of the country. Because Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra continue to be flourishing also thanks to the money, coming from drug trafficking, laundered in Germany in the purchase of apartments, hotels, pizzerias and restaurants and have shares in German companies. The mafia bosses, in the nineties, were intercepted while talking about investments to be made in East Berlin. I also remember that in an interview, the collaborator of justice Gaspare Mutolo told me that already in the eighties there was an order to invest capital in German soil because they were informed that shortly afterward the Berlin Wall would fall. He also said so when he was heard before the Anti-Mafia Parliamentary Commission: "When the law of Pio La Torre was being spoken about - the repentant tells the repentant referring to what then became the 416 bis - we are in the early months of 1982, Madonia (Nino, boss of Resuttana's sending, an ally of the Corleonesi, ed) advised me and Micalizzi, because he knew we were working at full speed with the heroine, not to take risks. He told us that if they approved this law, they would take the money away from us and propose to invest it in Germany where there was peace of mind". Those flows of money, which prominent members and intermediaries of the various mafia families invested massively in legitimate businesses, were instrumental in restoring the German economy from the meager Soviet experience. It did not matter if at the same time the law of the free market was being altered. Everything happened without any real control.The article published in Die WeltIn the book "The mafias on the rubble of the Berlin Wall" (ed. Diarkos), written with four hands by journalist Ambra Montanari and MEP Sabrina Pignedoli, Bernd Finger, former chief investigator of the BKA, tells how at the time: "They arrived with briefcases full of cash, they wanted to buy buildings and agricultural land. Officials thought it was a curious thing, but it was nothing illegal at the time. There were no investigations at the time, nothing that was recorded was illegal". Flows of money that never stopped.In 2014, the Attorney General of Palermo Roberto Scarpinato warned: "The mafia in Germany wants the Germans to think it doesn't exist. It no longer needs to be violent. It can seduce with capital. The world today risks being conquered by the mafia through the seduction of capital and countries like Germany are at high risk". And he continued: "When you don't try to understand the source of money, and you accept the indiscriminate entry of capital into your country, then it is the very morality of a people that are at risk. In times of crisis like today, the power of money and corruption can become an epidemic that shakes a society from its foundations. Germany must decide whether to welcome the mafia or fight it.The post "Duisburg massacre"All this, however, has never been spoken of in the German country despite, on August 15, 2007, the silence and mafia invisibility were ripped apart by the massacre of Duisburg, in which six boys were killed with 55 gunshots (Marco Marmo 25 years old, Francesco Giorgi 16 years old, Francesco Pergola 22, Marco Pergola 19, Sebastiano Strangio 38, Tommaso Francesco Venturi 18). The whole country woke up shocked and for the first time began to realize how much the mafia was permeated in the German social and economic system. But it was not enough. Since after that event, no other acts of violence were repeated, also because of the submersion carried out by the 'Ndrangheta, the German public opinion returned to underestimate the problem. But the truth is that the Calabrian organized crime in Germany can count on the settlement of about fifty active "locals". Here important families find the residence. Among these, the most influential is the Farao of Cirò Marina, the Giglio of Strongoli, the Maesano of Isola Capo-Rizzuto, the Mazzafferro of Gioiosa Jonica, the Morabito of Africo, the Muto of Cetraro, the Sanlucoti Nirta-Strangio, Pelle-Vottari (at war with each other) but in Germany also the business of the great drug traffickers, such as the Piromalli di Gioia Tauro, the Ursino di Gioiosa Ionica and the allied Sanlucoti Romeo (Staccu) - Pelle (Gambazza), Giorgi and the Mammoliti. Clans that, has emerged from several surveys, are present in almost all major German cities. In an interception, the young Vincenzo Farao, son of a Cyrò Marina boss, explains: "In Germany, we can do everything". In another Luigi Muto, a trait d'union with the German cell, stated without half measures that "Germany is a laundry". But also Cosa Nostra, Stidda, Camorra and Sacra Corona Unita have their "representations" in the territory. After all, it is no coincidence that in Germany, in recent times, several fugitives have been arrested. This is known to the Bka, the German Federal Police, who have sent an important report to the Catanzaro Public Prosecutor's Office, which has been included in the records of Operation Styx. In the pages of "Die Welt", however, these topics are not mentioned. Nor are the reasons why such infiltration into the country was possible.Absent regulationsAnd the reason is soon said. In Germany, as well as in the rest of Europe (except Italy, ed.), there is no regulation up to the task of countering the proliferation of the phenomenon. Suffice it to say that to date, there is no crime of mafia-type criminal conspiracy, which allows investigations to be opened even on the basis of a suspicion of belonging to a gang. The independent investigations, that is, not connected to a request for help in letters rogatory from Italy, in the rare cases in which they are made, in order to be successfully concluded, require that one be able to demonstrate guilt with respect to crimes provided for by the legal system of the Country - such as drug trafficking, money laundering, armed gangs, robbery and so on.Then there is the not insignificant problem of the law on the seizure of assets.Recently, the Deputy Prosecutor of Florence, Luca Tescaroli, explained it well: "The measures of patrimonial prevention are without recognition in Europe. An attempt is made to tackle the subject through the use of an instrument that is made available by a Convention of the Council of Europe signed in Warsaw, in 2005, on the laundering, search, seizure, and confiscation of the proceeds of crime.There is a rule, in Art. 21.1, which allows a request for action for the purpose of confiscation, but the concrete possibility of the use of the instrument, and therefore achieve the objective of freezing the property, is left to the will of the State to which it is requested. There are difficulties arising from the timing. Because there is no mechanism that allows immediate execution abroad and it is always necessary to go from letters rogatory with the complexity of the relationship with the requested State and the need for translations".Added to this are the investigation limits for investigators with the impossibility to carry out interceptions abroad or the numerous difficulties in enforcing letters rogatory in the verification of money laundering systems. In this way, one experiences a paradoxical situation in which the freedom of movement allows the mafia to act without difficulty, while the law enforcement action does not have the instruments and the timely ones which would be necessary to attack the mafia action.The Duisburg massacreThe Crim and the commitment to the single-textIn 2013, the CRIM Commission (on organized crime, corruption, and money laundering), then chaired by Sonia Alfano (daughter of the journalist Beppe Alfano, who was killed by the Mafia, ed), obtained in Strasbourg the approval of a single anti-mafia text in an attempt to harmonize standards at European level. In the document, in whose editorial staff the late Rita Borsellino also participated, they wondered: the introduction of the crime of mafia association in all Member States' legislation; the abolition of banking secrecy; the exclusion from tenders for companies condemned with a final judgment for crimes of organized crime, corruption, money laundering; the confiscation of assets, also through confiscation measures in the absence of conviction, and the reuse for public and social purposes of the confiscated assets; the crime of exchange voting that also includes intangible advantages; the provision of hypotheses of incandidability, ineligibility and disqualification from public office; much stricter codes of conduct for political parties (eg. control of public funding to parties) and greater protection for witnesses of justice. Since then, however, everything has remained virtually unchanged in the EU member states. If something had been done, if the Mafia problem had been dealt with as a European issue, perhaps there would have been far fewer problems today on the economic level and this "cancer", capable of conditioning a democracy and claiming as many victims as the coronavirus, would have been considerably weakened. A solution to such a global problem is clear that it cannot be found only by tightening the laws of a single country but must be tackled in a global way, as Giovanni Falcone has always asked, and for this reason there is an urgent need for legislation, at least at European level, to fill these gaps. German newspapers should talk about these topics, as well as local politicians who, like Salvini, Meloni and similar, are using the case to attack Germany and the European Union, without considering that the first ones who are opposing the sending of aid and the use of Eurobonds, because there is a mafia risk, are the so-called "group comrades in the European Parliament". Politicians are always ready to make propaganda, just as certain newspapers mix "the true with the false" to tell a half-truth. It is true that in Italy, corruption and the mafia, two sides of the same coin, have taken on a stronger form. The difference is that in our country, where there have been massacres and because of the mafias, magistrates, politicians, police officers, military, entrepreneurs, journalists, priests, and defenseless citizens have lost their lives, we have the instruments to find and hit certain criminals. Abroad, no.Before speaking, Europe, Germany first of all, should look in the mirror and break that wall of silence, on the subject of the mafia, which smells of compromise.The Mafia in Europe: in Germany, a silence that smells of compromise.Ndrangheta: the largest Italian mafia in GermanyFor German Interior Ministry in the country between 800 and 1000 affiliatesEditorial staff ANSA BERLINO June 02Th, 2019 – 02/07/2019(ANSA) - BERLIN, 2 JUNE - Between 800 and 1000 members of the ndrangheta are present and working in Germany: this is supported by the German Government in an answer to a question submitted to the Bundestag by the parliamentary group of the Greens, published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to the German Government, it is assumed that there are between 18 and 20 active bases of the Calabrian criminal organization in the country. The German security services have at the moment identified with certainty only 344 alleged members of the Calabrian mafia, so "it must be recognized that there are at least three times the number of members in local bases in Germany," said Irene Mihalic, Green spokeswoman for internal politics. "This is a huge risk to the security of the country with respect to which the attention of the institutions must be revived.The ndrangheta would be the largest Italian criminal group in Germany. Cosa Nostra Siciliana would be "represented" in the Country with 123 members. Furthermore, there are the branches of the Camorra from Campania with 94 members and the clans of the sacred united crown, which in Germany have 18 members.The Italian mafia, explains the German government, has "a high degree of organization and professionalism" compared to other criminal groups present in the Country. To hide, they have recently renounced violent actions and concentrate their activity on the influence of exponents of the political and economic world. (ANSA).Ndrangheta: in Germania è la mafia Italiana più numerosa - EuropaMafia, here is the german-connection between Cologne and LicataWho said there's no Mafia in Germany? Irpi's reporters tell of the investigation by the German and Italian police who have unveiled a network that embraces construction, drugs, and political corruption.The mafia doesn't exist. Least of all in Germany. This is what the German government says, which the citizens take at their word. But the official figures are inaccurate and the truth is sadly the opposite. The Mafia is increasingly present in Germany. And it's strong, very strong. It is only by analyzing the judicial papers of investigations still in progress, carried out in collaboration by the Italian anti-mafia pools and the German Federal Criminal Police, the BKA, that the overall picture emerges. On balance, in Germany, there could be even more than 1200 members ascribable to organized crime in our country. A small army or, if you prefer, a social network.So there is the mafia. But you'll only find it in the statistics if you look for it. "Organized crime from Italy to Germany has infiltrated every sector. From construction to alternative energy, from waste management to the shareholding of large companies or banks. They buy votes and influence elections through corruption," says Roberto Scarpinato, Attorney General of the anti-mafia pool in Palermo.One of the most striking examples of the strength of the mafia in Germany is "Operation Scavo", which began as an investigation into tax evasion, but which shows that crimes committed across the Alps are much more important. The operation begins on January 17, 2013, when 17 people are arrested. Some in Germany, some on international letters rogatory in Licata, a small town in the Agrigento area. It seemed only an operation against tax evasion, construction companies opened by Sicilians in Germany who did not pay taxes. But soon it was discovered that there was much more to it.Thanks to documents obtained exclusively by FUNKE Mediengruppe and joint research carried out by editor-in-chief David Schraven and journalists from the Irpi center of investigative journalism in collaboration with the Agrigento newspaper Grandangolo, Wired can now tell a new story.Someone, one day, must have commissioned Gabriele S., originally from Licata and a frequent visitor to Cologne since the 1990s, and Rosario P., from Riesi but in Germany since 1972, to manage what German investigators have dubbed the Baumafia, the "construction mafia". Gabriele P. in Cologne, Rosario P. in Dortmund. What was in between, namely Essen and Bochum, was divided according to business and moments.The two had to coordinate the so-called 'pretender hunters', who had to find among relatives and friends in Sicily poor devils who would sell themselves for a few thousand euros. The procurers were undoubtedly the accountant Massimo E., Biagio S., Agatino F., Vincenzo S. brother of Gabriele S. and Salvatore V.. (until he decided to start cooperating with the German authorities). After that, among the arrested and investigated are Domenico I., Giuseppe C., Lisa Maria F., Giovanni D., Salvatore A., Fabrizio R., Antonio C., Angelo C., Michele F., Antonio D., Giuseppe M., and Gabriele F.Using these prenames, Gabriele S. and Rosario P. opened a series of construction companies that had the sole purpose of operating as "shell companies", i.e. as recycling boxes. The mechanism worked like this: the money was transferred to the current accounts of the companies in question to pay false invoices, which did not correspond to any construction service. At that point, the loan-owner withdrew the money in cash. The 90% of the money was returned to the entrepreneur who had bought the false invoice, 10% went to the "managers" Gabriele S. and Rosario P., who used them to pay the accountants, the loan sharks, and the big cars for themselves.A brilliant system. From millions of money transferred legally, they create millions of black funds, reproachable in the same Baumafia, to corrupt politicians or to finance other illegal activities. A money transfer that is first "dirtied" and then promptly cleaned.This, it emerges from the BKA investigations, was done for at least 430 companies. Certainly, Gabriele S. - flunked three times in primary school - is not the creator of this system.Gabriele S. and Rosario P.'s "Baumafia" was a "disorganized" crime. The two discussed practically every day, and often, meetings were scheduled to resolve disputes. The discussions had to take place in some specific meeting places: the Bistrot in Dortmund, and the bar Italia90 in Cologne, run by Mario G.Bars are important. Gabriele S. himself had been running a bar in Cologne since the end of 2011, the Jolly Bar, also a Baumafia meeting point. I had had the test bench from 2009 to 2010 in Licata when he also ran a bar there. More than a bar, explain the Carabinieri, a black hole in the cocaine traffic. A business, that of cocaine, that Spiteri had also imported in Germany, and more precisely, in his bakery in Cologne, the Pasticceria Centro Italia.Customers ordered cocaine by telephone: "pasta in Bianco without sauce". Or, in the case of large quantities, we talk about white cars. One hundred, two hundred grams of coke a week sales.But Gabriele S. is a consumer himself. A vice that he also brings home to Sicily, during the parties he gives in Licata, in the villa - now seized - which was built thanks to the earnings of years of alleged illegality in Germany."Gabriele S. consumed as much cocaine as the entire Colony," he tells investigators Calogero D. di Ravanusa, born in 1963. Arrested together with the S. brothers he is, for the German investigators, a collaborator of the trafficker. Yet he is called whenever there is a problem to be solved and - they add the investigations - he seems to be the one with the highest contacts.For those who know the mafia mechanisms, it is evident that neither Gabriele S. nor Rosario P. acted on their own. The two had been put there, with precise orders, and they had a handsome mastiff on their heels, Calogero D. precisely.Calogero D. tells the Germans that he is not mafia: "Some years ago the Italian authorities were wrong, but everything was clarified". Not exactly. Calogero D. was released in 1994 after two years and four months in prison for having taken part in a mafia murder. At the time, known by the nickname of Lillo Aglialuoro, he was the shoulder-guard of Vito Mirabile, a man belonging to the boss Angelo Ciraulo, who was later killed by Giuseppe Falsone in a power war that shifted the command of the send from Ravanusa to Campobello di Licata for many years.After Ciraulo's death, Calogero D. decides to collaborate with the justice system and finds an arsenal. But his repentance is considered partial by the authorities, who do not consider him reliable. Although at first 'condemned to death' by the remaining Calogero D. bosses, he is left to live and, evidently, grow up. In the shadows, he must have made a career until he arrived in Germany. In fact, he goes to Cologne as soon as he manages, at the end of the nineties, to get out of prison.There he made his way by opening a cleaning company and then gave himself to Baumafia. The German police file on Calogero D. thickens. He's convicted of tax evasion, extortion, robbery, fraud, assault. The file also reveals contacts in the world of drug trafficking and prostitution.But who gave Calogero D. the power to act within the Baumafia? A suggestion emerges thanks to a curious episode that takes place around the Jolly Bar of Gabriele S. in Cologne, in mid-January 2013. Just before the snapping of the handcuffs. It's January 14th and in an interception Gabriele S. talks to Biagio S. about the new arrival, a boy, Angelo B., born in 1977, from Gela. Most likely a new frontman. The police intervene. This is the moment when the arrests are made for all 17 Baumafia. Angelo B is also arrested, questioned, and released. But a few hours later he is stopped again, while in a special car. A car registered in the name of Angelo O...Angelo O. is not just any man. Born in Licata in 1954, Angelo O. has a much more significant criminal record than Calogero D. Already at the end of the '80s, according to the DIA, Angelo O. operated in Germany in very close relations with Carmine Ligato, an influential boss of the 'Ndrangheta. The referent of all the commercial operations between the Agrigento Mafia and 'Ndrangheta, Angelo O. was already under the radar of the German police in 1997.In Sicily, he was Giuseppe Falsone's man, and it seems that it was the Agrigento boss himself who indicated him as head of Licata in his name.Angelo O., together with Pasquale Cardella, had taken control of the town after the quadruple murder of Brunco-Lauria-Greco-Cellura. In 2011, Angelo O. ends up in jail for extortion, and Cardella tries to keep the mandate for himself. Shortly after Angelo O. gets out, but his reference, the boss Giuseppe Falsone, fugitive for many years, had been captured. At that point, Angelo O. aims to bypass his partners and take control of Licata for himself, going to ask for the blessing of Canicattì's then head of the command, Calogero D. (homonymy with the Calogero D. of Baumafia, n.d.r.).Why his car was at the disposal of the young Angelo Bugiada is not clear, but the presence of Occhipinti in Germany could indicate him as the head of Cologne. And it would explain who answers Calogero D., and the whole "Squadra Scavo" of Cologne.Gabriele S. owes his life to the BKA, the German anti-crime unit. Because for behavior comparable to his own, cocaine abuse and unreliability, in the past, someone much more important than him had been eliminated."Yes, the mafia today as a rule no longer kills, since we follow the mafia pax mafia and the "business model" dictated by Matteo Messina Denaro", says a former killer of Cosa Nostra heard exclusively from the Mafia project in Deutschland. "But if things get bad, he kills himself. And of course, you don't do it in Germany, where it's important not to arouse any suspicion."Murder is therefore a solution of extreme reason but always used if it serves to protect the business. This is clearly stated by two recent and brutal murders of Manneheim's palmesi, both wanted in Sicily. One, that of Calogero Burgio, riddled with blows in Palma, under the house, as a warning. The other, shortly afterward, a typical white wolfhound, for the unfortunate Giuseppe Condello and Vincenzo Priolo. The latter only a driver, but the other, Condello, no less than the head of Mannheim.But why was Condello eliminated?We are told exclusively by the former killer of the Cosa Nostra in Trapani, who had met the two dead people killed in the past and met them again in Germany."Condello was the head of the Mannheim assignment. They are stiddari, but now Stidda and Cosa Nostra are the same things. Since Matteo Messina Denaro commands, the rule is one: business. Today you don't shoot anymore unless it's strictly necessary. And Condello's death sentence has been discussed among all the other leaders of the Agrigento. No one made up their mind. But Condello was now a mad dog using too much cocaine and out of control, he was no longer reliable." Condello dog-crazy had annoyed the boss of bosses, Denaro tells us the ex-killer: "What did he tell the Agrigento bosses: I'll take care of it."And so, the death sentence has been signed. At the end of January 2012, Condello was killed together with Priolo and stuffed into a water drain in the countryside of Palma di Montechiaro.Condello was shuttling back and forth, despite a restrictive measure, following the Mafia logic that requires, first of all, a constant presence in the Italian army, and, secondly, in his German reflection.But what counts is not the murder itself, but that under Matteo Messina Denaro the Mafia changed its face, and made a pact, perfectly working in Germany, between various Mafia provinces. We speak of Trapani, which holds the reins, Palermo and Agrigento.This has also been confirmed by our research. In particular, it emerges from the ties that the German company CEON had with some of the companies in the Calogero D. galaxy in Germany. This company is controlled by B-P. family, very close relatives of Matteo B., sentenced to 23 years for international drug trafficking. The B. Family, from Partinico, is recognized to be close to Vitale, the bosses of that area of Palermo.How wrong it is to think that the Baumafia is only a small group of self-organized criminals, confirmed to us by the statements of a new repentant. We speak of Giuseppe Tuzzolino, an architect who - notwithstanding the investigations of the DDA of Palermo still conceal most of the details - has been discovered to have been Condello's right-hand man in organizing millionaire scams in the very Municipality of Palma di Montechiaro. Fraud, however, Tuzzolino assures, goes well beyond the Municipality of Palma. In fact, they would go all the way to Germany, in the network of millions of black funds that the BKA has nicknamed Baumafia.There is no lack of connections with politics. The Baumafia of North Rhine-Westphalia seems to have understood how to find support even beyond the simple mafia affiliates. He understood that to better hide his face, he must also work on politics. And he does it in two ways. First of all, he tries to permeate the German one: either by corruption or by buying and selling votes.In Nuremberg a few years ago, a real mafia strategy for buying and selling votes was developed. Italians in Germany could vote for the chosen candidate and earn 50 euros in exchange, a well-known practice in Sicily.The second method that seems to have been adopted is that of supporting Italian politicians in Germany, at least judging by the countless business cards of Italian politicians, all close to Berlusconi's right, that Calogero D., the leading man of the 'excavation team', had in his agenda seized.Contacts with Italian politicians in Europe.Questioned by the investigators, the Baumafioso says: "It was only politics". A great civic sense, that of Calogero D., who, he says, was in charge "of pulling upvotes for Italian parliamentarians abroad". And he did it also for the Sicilian pidiellino (PDL):The People of Freedom was a center-right political party in Italy. The PdL, launched by Silvio Berlusconi on 18 November 2007, was initially a federation of political parties, notably including Forza Italia and National Alliance, which participated as a joint election list in the 2008 general election.Massimo Romagnoli, during the last electoral campaign. He was a certain success. In 2006, in fact, Romagnoli was elected to the Chamber of Deputies with 8,700 votes from abroad. Most of these had been collected in Cologne.It is possible that Massimo Romagnoli did not suspect at all who Calogero D. was doing with, but the latter also mentioned him during his interrogation with the German BKA. He tells the investigators that he had a request for help from Massimo E., the accountant of the Baumafia when he was in prison in Germany. He needed a passport. Calogero D. says he thought of Romagnoli. Then, he says he "moved on with my contacts, and in four weeks I got it to him."Massimo Romagnoli denies ever having received such a request. "I know Calogero D., he helped me with the election campaign," he explained to Irpi, "he had a cleaning company. But this Massimo E. is the first time I've heard of him.""Personally I have never received requests of this kind" continues Romagnoli, currently engaged with Forza Italia in the election campaign for the European elections "neither from Calogero D. nor from anyone else".Roberto Scarpinato, Attorney General in Palermo, is categorical when he speaks of the power of seduction inherent in Cosa Nostra. "The Mafia in Germany wants the Germans to think it doesn't exist. It no longer needs to be violent. It can seduce with capital. Of course, there's still a violent face of the Mafia in Italy, but it only shows itself when the power of persuasion of money is not enough. In reality, the world today risks being conquered by the Mafia through the seduction of capital, and countries like Germany are at high risk. When you do not try to understand the source of money, and you accept the indiscriminate entry of capital into your country, then it is the very morality of a people that are at risk. In times of crisis like today, the power of money and corruption can become an epidemic that shakes a society from its foundations.Germany must decide whether to welcome the Mafia or fight it."La Mafia in Germania: il pm Lombardo spiega il livello alto della 'Ndrangheta in Europa - The Mafia in Germany: the pm Lombardo explains the high level of the 'Ndrangheta in EuropeTesto unico antimafia in Europa: un cambiamento epocale - Unique anti-mafia text in Europe: a momentous changeLa mafia è un fenomeno mondiale! The Mafia is a world phenomenon!Magistrati e poliziotti tedeschi a lezione di lotta alla mafia a Palermo - German magistrates and policemen in the fight against the mafia in PalermoGerman magistrates and policemen at a lesson in the fight against the mafia in PalermoPRESSDetails Published: 04 November 2019of AMDuemilaAlso present is the Minister of Justice Peter Biesenbach.Scarpinato: "Germany has underestimated the problem for a long time."The mafia, ça va sans dire, is now present, in various forms, within most of the member countries of the European Union. Italy before any other nation on the continent has had to learn how to defend itself and how to fight back. For this reason, today prosecutors, judges, and journalists from Europe and beyond are studying the methods of their Italian colleagues to learn their strategies in this difficult fight against organized crime. This morning, for example, a large German delegation of magistrates and policemen, led by the Minister of Justice of Westphalia, Peter Biesenbach (photo), met the Attorney General of Palermo, Roberto Scarpinato, and the Attorney General of the Republic, Francesco Lo Voi. "Our judicial system is not efficient to fight the mafias. - said Biesenbach - In our history, we have had no attacks or murders against judges. It is a question of culture, of approach: we have always been accustomed to investigating individual crimes or people. But we have to change our point of view and focus on organizations and learn a new method of investigation". The German judges explained that in Germany there are "many organized crime groups, for example from North Africa, the former Yugoslavia, which are particularly violent". "Finally the public opinion has understood that there is a problem - the Minister explained again - For this reason, we take advantage of this moment to re-launch our project to modify our legislation taking as an example the Italian one for a more effective fight against the mafias". "We need new laws and means to face this challenge. For two years we have modified our law on conspiracy to commit crimes - said the minister - this allows us to deal also with criminal groups to hit them".During his speech, the pg Scarpinato denounced that in Germany "the problem of the mafia has been underestimated for a long time. The German public opinion considered that the presence of a few hundred Mafiosi as extortionists could be reduced. Then, they became aware of the existence of the mafia in Germany after the Duisburg massacre". "Last October 23, I participated in a conference organized by the German Police on the subject of recycling in Germany - he continued - and I was very impressed by the Minister's in-depth knowledge of the problem of the mafia and recycling", Scarpinato said again. "They became aware after the massacre of Duisburg in 2007, but since after that event, other acts of violence have not been repeated - said Scarpinato - also because of the submersion of the 'ndrangheta, the German public opinion has returned to underestimate the problem of the mafia, which is a problem which manifests itself in all its gravity from the point of view of recycling".You've come to the endDIANA KRALL Peel Me a Grape Sessions at West 54th. 1999