This page is the situation in Sicily after the assassination of judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, that is, from 1992 until today. These two judges have influenced public opinion to persuade it to fight the Sicilian Mafia.
The aim is to show how the Cosa Nostra has been weakened since the 90s, a period which is a turning point in this battle against the Mafia. First, I will speak of information systems, technology and information used by the police. Then, mention the arrests of Mafia bosses, the so-called "leaders of leaders." But above all try to highlight the change of mentality.
First, you need to analyze the historical evolution of this complex situation, it is speaking of a social phenomenon, rooted in the customs and daily life. So, sometimes, we must refer to events dates prior to this period. "The Octopus" as it is called, has existed since the nineteenth century.
So - here is where I want to get there - it must be said that the police, the carabinieri and the police stations have become accustomed to this "honor society". The Pool has conducted investigations and anti-Mafia magistrates were able to enact laws. Operation Clean Hands has done his part, because he fought corruption, which is present in Cosa Nostra. The authorities know how to operate and codes of this association mafia. They know that the mafia are not routine in their work and know how to communicate. You send the "Pezzini" This used to be half a decade makes a mafioso to write a message (about the mafia or not) on a rolled sheet, whose ends are bent. On it is written to a number that corresponds to the name of a Mafioso. Everything is glued with tape, making it impossible to see the message before the recipient receives it. The problem is the slowness of this means of communication because the message is transmitted in the hands of many "men of honor."
The authorities have placed cameras and microphones, and these tools are essential in the fight against the Mafia. So they can know their appointments and catch them red-handed. For its survey, in Palermo, Colonel Mannucci has been observed gangsters for two years before reacting.
Secondly, I would like to talk about the arrests that have contributed to the destabilization of the system, changing the type of operation and guidelines. Between 2005 and 2008, about 500 people were arrested. But the most spectacular historical arrest was that of December 16, 2008, in which police in 1200 were used to stop 99 suspected mafiosi.
Among the mafia leaders, we remember those who have been arrested: Totò Riina (January 15, 1993), Bernardo Provenzano (11 April 2006), Salvatore Lo Piccolo (the November 5, 2007). The operation and organization change according to the Boss: with Toto Riina, a Corleone, a reign of terror and extreme violence. He declared war on other gangs and the state, killing two judges. He killed about forty people and had organized the murders of more than a thousand other people. By Bernardo Provenzano, everything will be different, he lives in the most hidden and secret profits realized on the sly. The capital increases. The organization is restored. Some families are crumbling. Following declare the end of the attacks-show against the magistrates and police, and murders of non-mafia. Its strategy is to forget to all Sicily that is no longer on the front page of newspapers, but also motivation for the authorities. After 40 years of inaction, is stopped. As for Salvatore Lo Piccolo, was arrested by 40 police with his son Sandro after hiding for 25 years.
Finally, we can say that in recent years as retailers and employers refuse to cooperate with the Mafia. The people protest against this age-old problem of crime.
Examples abound to prove it. Libero Grassi and Vincenzo Conticello were distinct from the others: they have agreed to pay protection money and are opposed to their extortionists. The entrepreneur Libero Grassi, 10 January 1991, he wrote a letter to the Giornale di Sicilia in which the mafia warned to avoid buying bombs and explosives since he was under police protection. He refused to pay the 50 million requested. He died August 29, 1991. Vincenzo Conticello, a prominent merchant in Palermo, 25 November 2005, did not want to pay the mafia, who demanded € 50,000 for the years in which he had paid protection money. The owner of "L'Antica Focacceria San Francesco is constantly escorted by three officers and its restaurant is supervised. On 18 September 2007 was the first to point the finger in the direction of a mobster in a process.
Elsewhere, in Campania, is famous for having written Gomorrah Roberto Saviano and having investigated, in this case, the Camorra.
of opponents, there are others: even the journalists have committed. Take the example of Pino Maniaci, the Director of the broadcaster based in Telejato Partinico, which operates with young local TV (the station is said to be the smallest in Italy - Corleone and Partinico and is seen by 150,000 people). His personal fight against the Mafia is the preparation of TG (the longest in the world) that lasts for two hours in which they complained of the abusive practices of the Family among which we find Vito Vitale, who strangled a boy after he dissolved in a barrel of acid. Although he was sentenced to life imprisonment, the family still dominates on Partinico. Leonardo's son along with his brother has authority on earth.
addition to Cosa Nostra, the Mafia continues to struggle with music. Think is a song by Fabrizio Moro Young, released in 2007. Then other changes are made to express these ideas as Freedom.
We can say with some certainty that Cosa Nostra backs: even those who are in the top of the dome are no longer mafia Corleone, emblematic town of Cosa Nostra, known in the film The Godfather, and home to numerous Mafia bosses (Riina and Provenzano). The Corleone mafia are known to be the most violent criminals in clashes with the gangs (who killed over a thousand people between 1982 and 1983).
It is possible that this violence that has reacted part of the Sicilian Mafia even of themselves. So, repent "will go out of fashion" after the attack on Judge Falcone Capaci. Tommaso Buscetta is an illustration. Recently, in a matter of false notes and arms trafficking, the repentant Fabbio Mann made the revelations from the hiding of it all.
should be considered that there were further development and improvement Antimafia. It was an attack on the military mafia that has affected three aspects of the Mafia. The secret, now, no longer exists. That is now known that organized crime exists. Then, impunity would no longer exist: for more than a century and a half, none of them have been tried, but it was decided to put an end to all these acquittals. Finally, we add that the silence is breaking. Some employers break the law of silence.
But the Anti-Mafia has concerns: I think the entrepreneurs are not used then wait to see the sequence of events, unlike the Cosa Nostra, the Anti-Mafia has not undergone the process of globalization (We speak of alliances with other gangs as well as Italy - with the American Cosa Nostra, the Chinese Triad, the Russian ...) so it must improve its international cooperation. Experts also fear that outbreaks of a new war against the state, one war that would restore force to the Cosa Nostra.
The many arrests have not only weakened Cosa Nostra, but also have developed a sense of confidence in the authorities. All this was accompanied by an attack on all fronts, even the land, the fundamental good of mafia power. Some cooperatives have been created against the confiscation of lands.
In general, one can say that the Anti-Mafia Pool, consisting of Borsellino and FALCONE in part, gave the possibility to object to the "Octopus". His immense work in the fight against the Sicilian Mafia has been exemplary and hopes to find a land without violence, extortion, corruption, drug trafficking and without ... have increased. The famous and excruciating Paolo Borsellino's speech, delivered June 23, 1992, one month after the murder of friend and colleague Giovanni Falcone, well describes the narrow-minded that existed at that time in the Italian mafiogena. But we must not forget that he tried to respond to the population, stressing that the reaction is a duty. How? "Keep up the fight and rejecting the whole system. This meant that their work was also stir consciences. Even his speech was effective because they were not only shocked the political world - that has made judicial Operation "Clean Hands", but also the population and especially the younger generations (as he wanted PURSE) who starts to oppose Cosa Nostra forming associations and mafia to the streets. He then allowed the rise of a new way of thinking and so many people could take to the resistance against crime and to be represented. Joseph LUMI embodies the Anti-Mafia, he was Chairman of the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission from 2000 to 2001. Cosa Nostra is struck from the inside: the repentant make revelations that make the organization more fragile.
Judge Paolo Borsellino wished that the fight against the Mafia become "a moral and cultural movement that would involve everyone." This wish is coming true.
Despite this awakening against the mafia, however, we must not forget that in Palermo, 8 out of 10 shops pay protection money, estimated at € 1 billion per year and in effect at that time there was a second mafia in the south of Sicily: the Stidda infiltration is seen more in politics and economy. This new emergency reveal a confession of weakness or a strategy for recovery from the side of the Cosa Nostra?
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