Italy's four main mafia organisations have put aside their deadly differences to form a new and dangerous "fifth mafia" in Rome, a report has warned. The co-operation between the organised crime syndicates is a new and worrying development for the country's capital, researchers said.The impoverished south of Italy has been the traditional power base for the country's four mafia groups - Sicily's Cosa Nostra, the Camorra from Campania, the 'Ndragheta of Calabria and the lesser known Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia.
The co-operation between the organised crime syndicates is a new and worrying development for the country's capital, researchers said.
The impoverished south of Italy has been the traditional power base for the country's four mafia groups - Sicily's Cosa Nostra, the Camorra from Campania, the 'Ndragheta of Calabria and the lesser known Sacra Corona Unita in Puglia.
It is perhaps the future of journalism since local reporting now far outclasses mainstream journalism when it comes to reporting local events. In the past there was a lot of maverick reporting based on shakey sources. This has changed through the concerted efforts of professionals who have canvased the outback to teach youngsters the basics and ethics of journalism. I recently attended a conference in an occupied factory in Rome- our famous social centers- where veteran reporters discussed their experiences with internet networking and their ideas of the future of reporting. You learn a lot more about corruption, mafia and the 'Ndrangheta by reading local blogs run by youngsters than reading the best national press.
So back to your remark, the mafia doesn't often release press statements- which is something I should discuss further (I refer here, for example, to the Gravianos' testimony in the appeals case of the Dell'Utri sentence). But there are hundreds of youth and professionals on the ground collecting data and analyzing it.
This particular article refers to a consolidated reality of the past decades. It is not new (once again) although Nick Squire throws in a little pizzazz to make it seem so and a welcome interview with one of the experts at Liberainformazione. The dossier in question started coming out in March 2008.
