The Sicilian chiefs of the mafia complain of the deficiency of quality recruits, reminiscent of the “godfather”
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Leaders inside Cosa nostra, Sicilian mafiaThey allegedly complained that laundry recruits were not what they used to be, because this week almost 150 people were arrested with a group.
“The level is low, today they are arrested by someone, and if it becomes a turning layer, they have arrested another … desperate low level,” said former Cosa head Nostra Giancarlo Romano in an eavesdrop on a conversation last year before being killed in a shooting In the shooting, it states to BBC News.
Romano also revealed that he was nostalgic for the 1972 Francisco Ford Coppola classic “Godfather”, About a fictional Mafia family in New York.
Carabinieri officers in Sicily. (Valeria Ferraro/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“If you look at the” godfather “, the relationship he had … he was very influential because of the power he built on the political level,” Romano told his associate.
He continued, “But we – what can we do? We are on our knees, guys. We think we do, but these days we are doing it.
Mafiahs seem to like the actor too Robert de Nirowho played Vito Corleone in the “godfather II”, and Spider-Man, because the other services discovered them as nicknames to each other, according to The Guardian.
This week, Sicilian officers spent early morning raids, serving 183 arrest warrants believed to be related to Cosa Nostra for crimes ranging from the Mafia Association to extortion and attempts to kill. Of these, 36 was already in custody.
While raids like this week weakened Cosa Nostra, Italian officials warn that they are still a threat.
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“Investigations that led to arrests on Tuesday show that Cosa Nostra is alive and present and communicates with brand new communication channels,” said Maurizio de Lucia, the Chief Prosecutor of Sicily’s capital in Palermo, at a press conference, referring to the use of mafia to communicate with each other. “This is doing this and trying to renew his army.”
Domenico La Padula, with the Italian police, Carabinieri, told the New York Times this week that Cosa Nostra was “away from dead.”
He said they were able to survive by finding “new energy and new strength”, with new recruits and criminal ventures of 21st century, like gambling online.
Palermo, the capital of Sicily. (Frank Bienewald/Lightrocket via Getty Images)
Cosa Nostra remained “strongly related to the rules of her founding fathers and his ancient rituals,” said Carabinieri The Times, adding that their use of encrypted devices “limited the need for traditional meetings and gatherings to a minimum.”
John Dickie, who wrote “Mafia Republika: Italian criminal curse and Cosa Nostra, the history of the Sicilian mafia,” he told the Telegraph that the Italian authorities became “fantastic” in the surveillance of the mafia.
“Mafia Dons has been caught bragging about how good their jerk devices are, at the same time when they were bothering,” he revealed.
Dickie also agreed that Cosa Nostra was “falling”.
“You just have to read the telephone taps where the bosses say,” It’s not that, “he said.” This is about the fifth time the bosses have tried to reorganize the dome from the early 1990s. Every time they were prevented. The authorities were on them. “
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He continued: “These arrests mean that Cosa Nostra has another big task to renovate, and they show that the state is still stronger than the mafia.”
