It was July 19, 1992 when Cosa Nostra blew up the car of judge Paolo Borsellino in via D'Amelio in Palermo, killing him together with the agents of his escort: Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli, Walter Eddie Cosina and…
From today, Palermo remembers one of the greatest post-war intellectuals with a conference, one hundred years after his birth. Sociologist, educator, poet, writer and organizer of his famous marches against the mafia and for the right to work
A new report from the Magna Grecia Foundation reveals the evolution of mafias in the digital age: from extortion 2.0 to money laundering on cryptocurrencies, from online extortion to drug trafficking on the dark web. A real Cyber Organized Crime
On May 23, 1992, one of the most monstrous attacks by the mafia led by Salvatore Riina took place, the Capaci massacre, in which the magistrate Giovanni Falcone lost his life, together with his wife and three escort agents.…
The time factor and the implications of the investigation a month from now will be crucial for Toti's political fate. In the centre-right, "guaranteeism" remains the watchword but, as the days pass, the belief is gaining ground that...
The city of Bari takes to the streets in defense of its mayor and the dignity of the Apulian capital in the face of the risk of being placed under commissionership due to mafia infiltration. Here is the whole story of a case that is causing discussion on the eve of…
The provision of the Florence anti-mafia prosecutor's office against the former Forza Italia senator convicted of complicity in a mafia association
The dark plots of the Chinese mafia, known as the Triads, emerge in a surprising investigation. The interview on LeJournal.info by French journalist Jean-Paul Mari with Antoine Vitkine, a well-known documentary maker for TV across the Alps, analyzes the historical roots, the complexity of their organizational structure...
The last boss of Cosa Nostra passed away during the night. Having suffered from colon cancer for some time, he had refused aggressive treatment. On Friday the last meeting with the family followed by the irreversible coma. No religious funeral but secret service. Messina Money…
The Legambiente Awards to those who stand out in the fight against eco-mafia. 10 billion the round of environmental illegalities
The Prosecutor of Syracuse has unveiled a criminal plan aimed at tarnishing the co-director of the Italian Agency who, with his writings and books, has conducted a courageous activity of denouncing the activities of mafia crime and who since…
On the 31st anniversary of the Via D'Amelio massacre, the head of state recalls the judge killed by the mafia: "He and Falcone demonstrated that the mafia could be defeated". Meloni: "The fight against the mafia is part of us"
Is it possible to keep our guard up in the fight against crime on the occasion of the many contracts and works linked to the Pnrr without hindering the speed of execution of the Plan on which the country's reputation is at stake? The National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor,…
The mafia killed the brave judge Falcone 31 years ago but his legacy and his method of investigation are still very valid, provided that the institutions do not let their guard down
Faced with the abysmal delays in implementing the PNRR, if you don't want to lose EU money by exposing yourself to a devastating figure, a breakthrough is needed immediately with the appointment of a Commissioner with full powers like in the time of Covid...
INTERVIEW WITH MARCELLE PADOVANI, French journalist and author with Falcone of "Cose di Cosa Nostra" - "It was Messina Denaro who transformed Cosa Nostra into an economic and entrepreneurial association" which avoids deaths and massacres but dangerously involves businesses and administrations…
Interests in the renewable energy sector emerge from the capture of Matteo Messina Denaro. The boss had sensed the turnover not only in Sicily
As a young man he said, "I've killed enough people to fill a cemetery." On his massacres he built his power, on the strategy of silence his enormous economic empire
Messina Denaro was arrested thanks to the "Dalla Chiesa method, wiretapping is fundamental". "Stuck on the street, he didn't resist." Here are the details of the arrest of the now ex-fugitive
Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested this morning in a Palermo clinic after 30 years on the run. Here are all the details of the sensational capture
The Legambiente and Novamont Report on Ecomafie documents a country embarked on an ecological transition but which has to deal with organized crime. Appeal for the new Waste Inquiry Commission
A disturbing "collection" of the most scandalous agro-food products sold in the world with names that recall the episodes, characters and forms of organized crime that belong to the most banal anti-Italian stereotype: in Palermo Coldiretti and Filiera Italia have put…
Symbol of the fight against the mafia, Grassi was killed also because, with courage, he had publicized his battle in the media - His letter headed to the "Dear extortionist" is famous
The former director of Dia explains how and why the mafia phenomenon has prevailed for too long in the ruling class. A useful research to grasp and evaluate its real meaning
Banca Erica's anti-mafia and anti-usury bond arrives on the market which aims to raise 2,5 million euros to support the management of assets confiscated from organized crime and to stand by the entrepreneurs who are victims of loan sharks
The assassination of judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three agents of the escort on May 23, 1992 in the Capaci massacre was one of the most monstrous attacks by the mafia led by Salvatore Riina, who was later sentenced to life imprisonment with…
New cry of alarm from the Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Federico Cafiero de Raho - In Italy crime is worth 30 billion dollars and today it is trying to exploit the opportunities offered by the pandemic
On May 23, 1992, the atrocious crime of the mafia against the magistrate Giovanni Falcone took place a few kilometers from Palermo in which even four innocent people lost their lives - A crime that made Falcone the symbol of…
On January 15, 1993, about 7 months after the Capaci massacre, the great mafia boss was arrested by the Carabinieri ROS in Palermo. It was a turning point in the fight against mafia crime. Here is the list of all the convictions of…
On October 17, 1931, a popular jury found the legendary Italian-American boss guilty of tax evasion: he was imprisoned at the age of only 32 and died at the age of 48.
An agreement that provides for the adoption of measures aimed at contributing to the employment and social reintegration of witnesses of justice and protected subjects
Author's judgment: The true story of the first mafia repentant: Tommaso Buscetta is the film we are proposing this week, the same one that recalls the Capaci massacre of 1992, just released in theaters and in competition at the Cannes Film Festival…
The new film by Roberto Andò with Micaela Ramazzotti and Alessandro Gassmann tells the story of the theft of Caravaggio's Nativity, which took place in Palermo in 1969 - A mystery in which repentant criminals, secret services and negotiations intertwine...
The Surveillance Court, accepting the request of the lawyers, ordered the postponement of the sentence for the former Forza Italia senator sentenced to 7 years.
The assize court of Caltanissetta filed the reasons for the sentence with which it sentenced Salvino Madonia and Vittorio Tutino to life imprisonment for massacre and 10 years for slander Francesco Andriotta and Calogero Pulci, fake collaborators of justice used to put…
The sentence of the court of assizes of Palermo after 5 years of trial - Dell'Utri 12 years, while the former minister Mancino, accused of perjury, was acquitted - A new political storm is unleashed that drives even further away…
The two are under investigation again, this time by the Florence prosecutor's office, for the mafia massacres of 1992 and 1993: the hypothesis is always that which would see the former prime minister and his trusted man as possible instigators of the attacks on Falcone...
A school camp for young people of the Fim-Cisl on work and legality in the lands confiscated from the mafia is underway in Casal di Principe, in the province of Caserta - The young people are engaged not only in civic training activities but…
According to the Palermo prosecutor's office, Giuseppe Graviano, the boss of the 1992-1993 massacres, during an intercepted conversation in prison, appears to want to attribute the role of instigator to Berlusconi. That is why the minutes have already been sent, via…
Four of the 10 Italian general managements of the German multinational, on which 214 supermarkets depend - The investigation also reached the Municipality of Milan - The shadow of infiltration by the Laudani mafia clan extends over all these realities
The president of Juventus, Andrea Agnelli, and three employees of the Juventus club were referred by the Prosecutor of the Football Federation for alleged relations with exponents of mafia clans infiltrated into ultras groups - Agnelli's reaction lasts: "All unacceptable and…
The European Police, in the press release issued in view of Christmas, asks everyone to make an effort to make "the holiday season safer, by locking up these criminals before the holidays".
After the clamorous resignation of President Rainer Masera, the Temporary Guarantee Fund of the Bcc is more than ever in the eye of the storm for having financed the Banca Paceco commissioned for mafia - Fifteen banks ask for clarifications and threaten to contact…
Ill for some time, he was 83 years old - He died at the San Paolo hospital in Milan - He was arrested in 2006 after a 43-year fugitive. He was guilty and instigator of heinous murders, proponent of a strategy of "submersion" after…
Those involved allegedly obtained 3 million euros in contracts over 20 years from Fiera Milano through the company Nolostand - The orders for 4 pavilions of Expo 2015 are in the sights of the investigators: France, Kuwait, Equatorial Guinea and a sponsor.
Six arrests in Sicily, the carabinieri block the plans of the Corleone clan. Among those arrested there is also Rosario Lo Bue, one of the clan leaders - The district of Corleone was also at work for another murder linked to a large…
The decree will come from the next Council of Ministers but Prime Minister Renzi is determined to commission the Jubilee by entrusting the powers of Mayor Marino to the prefect of Rome Franco Gabrielli - The choice is the result of the storm that…
The Undersecretary of Agriculture, Giuseppe Castiglione, is among the six suspects of the Catania prosecutor's office in the investigation into the management of the Cara di Mineo on which the Rome prosecutor's office is also trying to shed light - The prosecutors work in parallel…
The son of the communist deputy presented his book in Milan together with the son of another victim of the mafia, General Nando dalla Chiesa, on the eve of the anniversary of the Capaci massacre - The topics of…
This was stated by the public prosecutor of Rome Giuseppe Pignatone, who also explains how "there is not a single mafia association that controls Rome, as in Palermo or Reggio Calabria" - Today two more arrests by the Ros.
The former mayor of Rome, investigated for mafia association in the investigation that involved a hundred people including politicians and local entrepreneurs, suspended himself from the Brothers of Italy - Storm also on the Democratic Party: Renzi commissioner of the Roman top management, appointed Orfini.
"The word 'negotiation' has never been used", reported the lawyer for the President of the Republic, according to whom the head of state "also answered questions from Totò Riina's lawyer".
Napolitano will have to be heard about the letter received from his legal adviser at the time, Loris D'Ambrosio, following the publication of the phone calls between D'Ambrosio himself and former president Nicola Mancino.
The accusation is that he favored the disappearance of the businessman from Reggio and former parliamentarian Amedeo Matacena, definitively convicted of external competition in a mafia association - Berlusconi: "Saddened, but it has nothing to do with his exclusion from the Forza Italia lists for …
The definitive implementation regulation of the Register of judicial administrators of assets seized from criminal organizations, which the National Agency for the administration and management of seized assets and companies makes use of, will be operational from 8 February. The sixty days kick in…
Three of the organizations under the Yakuza umbrella – Yamaguchi-gumi, Sumiyoshi-kai and Inagawa-kai – have set up procedures, under the shadow of a legal contractor, the Obayashi company, to "hire" the homeless and send them to Fukushima for decontamination operations.
It's called agromafia and it's a growing phenomenon, as shown by Eurispes estimates: 12,5 billion euros in turnover per year, while counterfeiting of the Italian brand in the world causes damage of 60 billion - Mara Monti and Luca…
Ten of the 17 major global investment banks have reduced their estimates on the single currency: the forecast is that the euro will reach 2012 dollars at the end of 1,20 - There are fears that the crisis will worsen in Spain, Greece and Italy - Dollar …
The activities of the ecomafia, which include illegal waste management such as illegal building, will be presented and analyzed in the "Ecomafia Report 2012" tomorrow in Rome. The business generated a turnover of 16,6 billion in 2011, increasing activities from…
