On March 22-23, in Settimo Torinese, the official inauguration of Il Dado will be held! This event, long awaited for, is the result of many months of work in the structure given in concession to us by the Municipality of Settimo, but it is also the fulfilment of a process which began almost five years [...]
Tags: immigrants, immigration, Italy, Roma people, social inclusion, Torino
The Calabresi criminal organization called ‘ndrangheta has set its branches all over Germany with stable structures and 230 clan.
The alarm comes from a confidential report of the “Bundeskriminalamt” (Bka), the federal anti-crime Bureau, of which the main points are highlighted in tomorrow’s issue (10 of March) of the weekly magazine “Focus”. The dossier edited by [...]
Tags: 'ndrangheta, Calabria, clans, Duisburg, Germany, Italy
When the bills started piling up and the banks wouldn’t lend, the white-haired art dealer in the elegant tweed jacket said he drove to the outskirts of Rome and knocked on the rusty steel door of a shipping container.
A beefy man named Mauro answered. He wore blue overalls with two big pockets, one stuffed with [...]
Tags: financial crisis, Italy, mafia
by Stephen Brown for Reuters News Agency - November 12, 2008
ROME–Italian shopkeepers pay about $380 million a day to mafia protection rackets and loan sharks and fear the current downturn could allow organized crime to further tighten its stranglehold on the vulnerable economy.
The warning came yesterday from the Italian shopkeepers’ association Confesercenti, many of whose [...]
By Deepa Babington for Reuter Africa - November 24, 2008
ROME (Reuters) - Libya and Italy may start sea patrols to deter illegal migrants from entering Europe within weeks to sharply reduce the flow of migrants arriving in Italy, Libya’s envoy to Rome told Reuters.
Ambassador Hafed Gaddur warned, however, that solving the migrant problem did not [...]
Tags: Italy, Lybia, trafficking of humans
By BBC - November 21, 2008
Fifty-eight-year-old Silvana Fucito was terrified the first time a member of the Camorra came into her shop, put a gun on the counter and said “either you pay up or we’ll kill you”. Yet this tiny woman, with her manicured nails and diamante hair clips, told her husband to step [...]
Tags: Camorra, Italy, Roberto Saviano, Silvana Fucito
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