What happened to never against the family?
Leaders within the Cosa Nostra, Sicily’s MafiaAllegedly complaining that MOB recruitments are not what they used to be, because nearly 150 people were arrested with the group this week.
“The level is low, today they arrest someone and when he becomes a turncoat, they arrest another … miserable low level,” said former Cosa Nostra boss Giancarlo Romano last year in a tasting conversation before being killed in a shootout , according to a shootout, according to a shootout, according to a shootout, according to BBC News.
Romano also revealed that he was nostalgic for the classic of Francis Ford Coppola from 1972 “The Godfather,” About a fictional Mafia family in New York.
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Carabinieri officers on Sicily. (Valeria Ferraro/Anadolu via Getty images)
“If you look at ‘The Godfather’, the connections he had … He was very influential because of the power he built on a political level,” Romano told his employee.
He continued: “But we – what can we do? We are on our knees, boys. We think we are doing business, but nowadays it is others who do it. We used to be number one, now they are others … we we are just gypsies. “
The mobsters also seem to love actor Robert de NiroThat Vito Corleone played in “The Godfather Part II”, and Spider-Man as other branches revealed them as nicknames for each other, according to The Guardian.
This week, Sicilian officers carried out early morning attacks with 183 arrest trips about those who are supposed to be associated with the Cosa Nostra for crimes ranging from Mafia Association to extortion and attempted murder. Of these, 36 were already in custody.
While raids such as this week weakened the Cosa Nostra, the Italian officials warn that they are still a threat.
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“The investigation that led to Tuesday’s arrests show that Cosa Nostra is alive and present and communicates with completely new communication channels,” said Maurizio de Lucia, main prosecutor of Sicily’s capital of Palermo, during a press conference, into the use of coded apps to communicate with each other. “It does business and tries to rebuild his army.”
Domenico La Padula, with the Italian Carabinieri police, told the New York Times this week that the Cosa Nostra is “far from dead”.
He said they could survive by finding “new energy and new strength”, with new recruits and 21st-century criminal companies such as online gambling.
Palermo, Sicily’s capital. (Frank Bienewald/Lightrocket via Getty images)
The Cosa Nostra is “strongly bound to the rules of its founders and its old rituals,” the Carabinieri told The Times, adding that their use of coded devices “has limited the need for traditional meetings and meetings to the bare minimum. “
John Dickie, who wrote “Mafia Republic: Italy’s Criminal Curse and Cosa Nostra, a history of the Sicilian Mafia,” the Telegraph said that the Italian authorities have become “fantastic” in surveillance the Mafia.
“Mafia-Dons are caught how good their anti-bugging devices were, at the same time that they were skilled,” he revealed.
Dickie also agreed that the Cosa Nostra seems to be “in decline”.
“You just have to read the phone calls where the bosses say:” It’s not the way it used to be, “he said.” This is about the fifth time that the bosses have tried to reorganize the dome since the early 1990s . Every time they have been thwarted. The authorities were up to them. “
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He continued: “These arrests mean that Cosa Nostra still has a big task to rebuild, and they show that the state is still stronger than the Mafia.”
