When the police on Tuesday moved on to Sicilian mob on Tuesday, their main goal was to stop them by overtaking and creating a new management body or dome.
But what originated from their wide investigation is an organized criminal group that has to adapt to modern realities and display nostalgia for the last real ambitions.
He does not produce mafiars as they used to, Giancarlo Romano told his associate in an interview with eavesdropping before he was shot a year ago.
Despite its obvious longing for the crimes of the past, the mafia in Sicily is still a force to be counted on, warns Prosecutor Anti-Mafia Maurizio de Lucia: “Cosa Nostra is alive and present.”
Investigators have found that the new generation of gang bosses used encrypted mobile phones and thousands of short-lived micro-sim cards smuggled.
In this way, they sought to avoid eavesdropping as they focused their activities on drug crime, money laundering and gambling online.
Sicily, Cosa Nostra even started working with other gangs, including the infamous and far greater ‘Ndranghet in continental Italy.
Of the 181 arrest warrants served suspected Sicilian gangsters in four district of Palermo capital, 33 were for convicted figures already in prison.
National Prosecutor Anti-Mafia Giovanni Melillo said that despite all the promentions, the prison system of the high security was at the grace of the mafia.
The investigation revealed that one gangster was able to watch the beating he ordered from real-time internal prison via video.
The mafia became extremely safe in the encrypted platform to exchange the messages he used, which included text messages, voice notes and pictures.
But a year ago, an error installed in a gangster house was recorded by another man who complained about a relationship descending on the encrypted chat. While trying to restore the relationship, the names of several mafia figures were mentioned loudly.
Sicily’s authorities heard every word.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni praised the surgery of the Italian military police Carabinieri and promised that the fight against the mafia “did not stop and would not stop”.
Half of the arrested is in the 20th and 30th.
At the end of 2023, Giancarlo Romano was recorded by the upcoming mafia character in Brancaccio area in the heart of the capital of Sicily, Palermo, recorded by complaining about the fall of the mobs and the poor qualities of new recruits.
“The level is low, today arrested someone, and if he becomes a coat, he is arrested another … a desperate low level,” he was quoted as he said through his served phone.
He heard that he told the mafia mafia to go to school, meet doctors and lawyers and learn lessons from watching the movie trilogs about the godfather about the fictional Corleone Gangster family.
Today’s mafia was satisfied with the sale of small barrels, while others were now moving in, complained, “At that time, those people who unfortunately ended up in prison for life … They did so because of the hash counters.”
Romano was killed and his associate wounded in February 2024. In an attack that is obviously associated with gambling extortion on the net. This murder led the authorities to execute further arrests within Roman’s Mafia branch.
Cosa Nostra is a shadow of the infamous mafia for an organized crime that used to be, overthrowing a wave of campaign by the authorities in the last 30 years.
But despite the urge for a more modernized mob, many old practices and codes remain.
“Cosa Nostra is like a marriage. You’re married to this husband and stay with her all your life,” one mafioso was heard.
The clear implication was that there was no leaving Cosa Nostra.
