Posted on 02/22/2018 8:38:17 PM PST by Olog-hai
There is a risk of mafia interference in Italy’s upcoming general election, some of the country’s top politicians warned on Wednesday.
Interior Minister Marco Minniti said it was a “fact” that there was “a concrete risk of the mafia conditioning the free vote”.
“To say that the mafias are a threat to democracy does not seem irrational on the eve of an electoral competition,” Minniti said in a speech at the Italian Senate.
He went on to say there had been “too much silence on these issues” in the election campaign so far, and that Italy faced a “double threat” of terrorism and mafia-linked crime.
There are several organized crime groups in Italy, the most well-known being the ’Ndrangheta in Calabria, the Cosa Nostra in Sicily, and the Camorra in Campania. Each of these has been linked to vote-buying and intimidation cases in the past, particularly at a local and regional level. …
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“’Concrete risk’ of mafia meddling in Italy election, ministers warn”
Actually, concrete is one of the biggest areas of mafia domination, at least in the Northeast (along with garbage disposal).
Where is Mueller?
Some minds are like concrete.
Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
Those ministers are fearful of ending up in concrete themselves.
I’ve always assumed the mafia was big in elections, here and abroad...
The mob would probably support the open-borders parties. They make big profits from smuggling migrants and drugs on their way to other European nations.
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