Sicily gangsters forced to modernize but complain that the staff cannot obtain

When the anti-mafia police pounced on Tuesday in the Sicilian mafia, their main objective was to prevent them from regrouping and creating a new governing body or dome.

But what has emerged from its extensive investigation is an organized criminal group that has to adapt to modern realities and show nostalgia for the highest ambitions of the past.

They do not produce mafia as they used to do it, Giancarlo Romano told an associate in a boom conversation before being shot dead a year ago.

Despite his obvious yearning for crimes of the past, the mafia in Sicily remains a force to take into account, warns Lucia’s anti-maurizio prosecutor: “Nostra thing is alive and present.”

Researchers have revealed that the new generation of gang chiefs has made the use of encrypted mobile phones and thousands of short-lived micro-SIM cards of smuggling in prisons.

In this way, they sought to avoid being spooky while focusing their activities in drug crimes, money laundering and games of random online.

Nostra de Sicilia has even started working with other gangs, including the notorious and much bigger ‘Ndrangheta in Continental Italy.

Of the 181 arrest orders attended to the alleged Sicilian gangsters in four districts of the Palermo capital, 33 were for convicted figures that were already in jail.

The National Anti-Mafia Giovanni Melillo prosecutor said that, despite all the repressions, the high security prison system was at the mercy of the mafia.

The investigation revealed that a gangster had been able to see a beating that had ordered from the inner jail in real time through Video-Link.

The mafia became extremely safe from the encrypted messaging platform she was using, which presented text messages, notes and voice images.

But a year ago, an error installed in the house of a gangster recorded it and another man complaining that the connection fell into an encrypted chat. While trying to restore the link, the names of several Mafia figures were mentioned out loud.

Sicily authorities heard each word.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni praised the operation of the Carabinieri Military Police of Italy and promised that the fight against the mafia “has not stopped and will not stop.”

Half of those arrested are between 20 and 30 years old.

At the end of 2023, Giancarlo Romano, considered a figure of the promising mafia in the Brancaccio area in the heart of the capital of Sicily, Palermo, registered 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 it becomes a tour turn, they arrest another … miserable low level,” he summoned by saying by his transparent phone.

He was heard telling an aspiring gangster to go to school, know doctors and lawyers, and learn lessons of watching the godfather’s trilogy about the fictitious family of Corleone Gangster.

Today’s mafia was satisfied with selling small hashish bars while others now move that was supposed to arrive.

Romano was killed and his associated injured in February 2024, in an attack apparently linked to online game extortion. That murder led the authorities to make more arrests within the Roman branch of the Mafia.

Nostra thing is a shadow of the notorious mafia of organized crime that was once, demolished by a wave of authorities of the authorities in the last 30 years.

But despite the impulse of a more modernized mafia, many of the old practices and codes remain.

“Nostra thing is like marriage. You are married to this wife and you stay with her all your life,” said a gangster.

The clear involvement was that he had not left the thing Nostra.