When anti-mafia police threw themselves at the Sicilian crowd on Tuesday, their main goal was to stop them from regrouping and creating a new managing organ or DomeS
But what has emerged from their widespread investigation is an organized criminal group that must adapt to modern realities and show nostalgia for worse ambitions than the past.
They do not produce mafia, as before, said Giancarlo Romano to an associate in a conversation with eavesdropping before being shot a year ago.
Despite its obvious longing for crimes from the past, the Mafia in Sicily is still a force to comply with, warns the prosecutor of anti-mafia Mauricio de Lucia: “Hair is alive and present.”
Investigators have revealed that the new generation of gang bosses have undertaken the use of encrypted mobile phones and thousands of micro-SIM cards with short life smuggled in prisons.
In this way, they tried to avoid eavesdropping when they focused their activities on drug crime, money laundering and online gambling.
Sicily's Cosa Nostra even started working with other bands, including the notorious and far larger “ndrangheta in continental Italy.
From 181 arrest orders served on suspected Sicilian gangsters in four areas of the capital Palermo, 33 are for convicted data already in prison.
Anti-mafia national prosecutor Giovanni Melilo said that despite all the repression, the high security prison system was at the mercy of the mafia.
The investigation revealed that a gangster managed to watch the beating he ordered from prison in real time through a video link.
The Mafia became extremely confident in the encrypted message platform that used to include text messages, voice notes and images.
But a year ago, a bug installed in the home of a gangster recorded it, and another man complained about the relationship that descends into an encrypted chat. As they tried to restore the relationship, the names of several mafia figures were mentioned aloud.
Sicily authorities have heard every word.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni praised the military police operation in Carabiniers in Italy and promised that the fight against the mafia “had not stopped and would not stop”.
Half of the arrested are in the 20th and 30s.
At the end of 2023, Giancarlo Romano, considered an ascending Mafia figure in the Brankacho area in the heart of the capital of Sicily, Palermo, was recorded, complaining about the decline of the mafia and the poor quality of the new recruits.
“The level is low, today they arrest someone, and if they become rotating, they arrest another … unhappy low level,” he was quoted by phone by tapping.
He was heard to tell an ambitious Mafioo to go to school, meet doctors and lawyers, and learn lessons from watching the godfather of the godfather of the fictional family of the Corleone gangster.
Today's mafia was pleased with the sale of small hashish bars, while others were now moving, he complained: “In the day, those people who unfortunately ended up in prison for life … they did it because they were that they were He assumed the hash of the hash to arrive. “
Romano was killed and his associate was wounded in February 2024 in an attack, apparently related to the extortion of online gambling. This murder made the authorities commit more arrests in the Mafia Romano branch.
Cosa Nostra is a shadow of the notorious organized crime that has once been, removed from a wave of campaigns by authorities over the last 30 years.
But despite the pursuit of a more modernized crowd, many of the old practices and codes remain.
“Cosa Nostra is like a marriage. You are married to this wife and you stay with her all your life,” said a mafia.
The clear meaning was that there was no leaving Cosa Nostra.