At its activities, Sicilian Cosa Nostra is like other polycriminelle mafias. In addition to the traditional protection, racketeering (80% of traders Palermo admit to be the object), lending, real estate speculation and money laundering, the Sicilian Mafia has specialized in grabbing calls procurement. Controlling most of the construction companies on the one hand, and a majority of local elected officials on the other hand, families have no difficulty to get rich this way. In general, it is difficult to make a call for tender in Southern Italy without being parasitized by organized crime. Nevertheless, the Sicilian Mafia has several special compared to other organizations Mezziogiorno. Indeed, it seems that she does not commit pimping and kidnapping, probably due to the considerable influence - although some paradoxical égards- honor and Catholicism. Provenzano always quoted the Bible in his messages, which still bear witness to the religious movement, even though it could be a coded language. Finally, the mafia has embarked on the lucrative market for storage and handling of domestic and hazardous waste. Obtaining public contracts for waste treatment, mafiosi are content to throw without any treatment in open dumps or directly into the sea, while enjoying the financial windfall paid for these services. Drug trafficking proves the criminal activity in which Sicilian Cosa Nostra is the most experienced. The system set up by Luciano lasted until the early 90s she has focused on achieving a near monopoly in the heroin, morphine base from Turkey or the Golden Triangle being processed on site as often. The dissolution of the French connection in the 70s has left the field open to Sicilian, allowing them to recover soon "chemists" Marseille, the only produce pure heroin to 90%.
Currently, the Sicilian Mafia has 66 identified families together in 17 mandamenti. Heads (capi) of mandamenti meet in a regional committee called Cupola, whose power is subject of discussion. Testimonies are contradictory and repented it would appear to be an arbitration commission in litigation (including reorganization of territories controlled or affiliations to a family), which could also set the broad guidelines. This institution was founded after the Second World War, anyway, was placed fleeced by the domination of the Corleone clan for nearly 30 years. Unlike other Italian criminal organizations, Cosa Nostra thus appears much more structured, length and parallel power it exercises that could explain this phenomenon. According to the indictment, the trial in Palermo in 1986, it "is organized into hierarchical structures with a top and an epicenter in Palermo, the headquarters of the governing body of the association, called" dome "or" commission ". Contrary to popular belief, the Mafia Island is not structured in independent and diverse associations, but constitutes an organization that even articulated and complex, does not least a substantial unity. "However, in recent years it seems that the organization has evolved in a way partitioning to fight against the denunciations of the repentant. The structure of Cosa Nostra remains hardly known and therefore it is unwise to decide on the actual powers of any such body or such a family. (Taking stock of the two theories, that of a single structured organization that supports a plurality of autonomous structures v Raimondo Catanzaro, Cosche, Cosa Nostra. Organizational structures of the mafia crime in Sicily, Cultures and Conflicts, 3, p.9-23)
What future for Sicilian Cosa Nostra? The arrest of Provenzano showed that the supposed sponsor communicated only by small papers, refusing all modern modes of communication. This archaism could announce some say the end of the mafia increasingly challenged by new emerging criminal groups in Eastern Europe. However, it is more likely that the organization has anticipated this trend by abandoning violence, drug trafficking (left to other mafias of the island), and refocusing on the infiltration of legitimate business environment. Therefore, the mafia will not headlines but will continue to exercise its authority over the Sicilian island. Repeated attacks of the Roman government will not come after almost two centuries of history in which the Honourable Company parasitized all systems of authority in Sicily.
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