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Mafia could be big winner in coronavirus-ravaged Italy
CTV ^ | March 29, 2020 | Ella Ide and Ljubomir Milasin

Posted on 03/31/2020 7:26:05 AM PDT by NorseViking

ROME, ITALY -- As Italy mourns thousands of coronavirus dead, and survivors brace for life in an economic wasteland, one rung of society looks to win big: organized crime.

"The Italian mafia can turn threats into opportunities," top government anti-mafia investigator Giuseppe Governale told AFP.

Over 10,000 people have died in Italy of the flu-like disease, which has forced the country into a lockdown that is devastating the eurozone's third largest economy.

From the historic Cosa Nostra in Sicily, to the immensely powerful 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and trigger-happy Camorra in Naples, Italy's mafias were "caught on the back foot (by the virus), but are now organizing themselves," Governale said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: italy; mafia

1 posted on 03/31/2020 7:26:05 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

Hey, Cuomo, how’d those masks disappear?


2 posted on 03/31/2020 7:32:54 AM PDT by bgill (Idiots. CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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To: NorseViking

Ain’t it the truth...the Mob and the cockroaches will be the only ones to survive WWIII.


3 posted on 03/31/2020 7:37:57 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The Mob isn’t immune to Chinese WMD.

Cockroaches probably are, but the Mob isn’t.


4 posted on 03/31/2020 7:38:41 AM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: NorseViking

Let me make an offer .......I have 100 thousand N-95 masks in a Jersey warehouse.

You pay me a million large.......You get the masks......or
you can have a meeting with Guido over at the end of Pier 9 in Manhattan.

Guido loves pier 9, with that big hospital ship there.A lot of doctors visit that ship, come and go.Its really not safe along that pier....Guido can make sure nothing can happen to you.

Bring that cash to pier 9....you got 36 hours...happy to drop of the mask to your hospital.


5 posted on 03/31/2020 7:40:48 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: chris37

I have seen a euronews report today although not in english with Naples mayor saying Mafia took over the city, paying the poor unemployment benefits the federal government failed to pay and demanding businesses to pay taxes to the Mafia and not to the government.


6 posted on 03/31/2020 7:44:18 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

Mob gets sick just like everyone else. Moreover, they have Albanian gangsters and African migrants trying to cut in on their territory. Think Scarface but featuring somebody who came across the Med from Libya (or what used to be Libya until Sidney Blumenthal convinced Hillary to make a play for the oil fields).


7 posted on 03/31/2020 7:44:34 AM PDT by ameribbean expat (Attention! All persons having the corona virus...please report to the nearest IRS office. Thank you.)
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To: NorseViking

Wow... Yep, that is a problem.

I bet cartels could do the same in some southern countries.


8 posted on 03/31/2020 7:48:03 AM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: NorseViking
“This Could Turn Violent” – Italian Officials Fear South Turning Into A Powder Keg
9 posted on 03/31/2020 7:51:41 AM PDT by blam
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To: Candor7

“Let me make an offer .......I have 100 thousand N-95 masks in a Jersey warehouse.”
Leave the masks, take the cannolies.


10 posted on 03/31/2020 8:06:28 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: chris37

What about Keith Richards?


11 posted on 03/31/2020 8:10:05 AM PDT by wrcase
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To: NorseViking

Or it could result in another “March on Rome”, and Mussolini was no fan of the Mafia.


12 posted on 03/31/2020 8:12:12 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

But then who won it the end? Gambinos are still there and no Mussolini in sight.


13 posted on 03/31/2020 8:17:09 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

It was the Commies that strung up Mussolini.


14 posted on 03/31/2020 8:19:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Funnily, social media in Italy says Naples counsilmen want the Russian Army to move from Bergamo to the South to deal with the Mafia although it is of course a boloney designed to tweak Rome to reinforce the local police.


15 posted on 03/31/2020 8:23:11 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: wrcase

I think the vaccine will include Keith’s blood. There’s really no other way that even makes sense.


16 posted on 03/31/2020 8:24:29 AM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: bgill

Indeed and a lot other items that never get reported.


17 posted on 03/31/2020 8:40:33 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: ameribbean expat
Mob gets sick just like everyone else. Moreover, they have Albanian gangsters and African migrants trying to cut in on their territory. Think Scarface but featuring somebody who came across the Med from Libya (or what used to be Libya until Sidney Blumenthal convinced Hillary to make a play for the oil fields).

All true.
The Albanians and Africans will give them a run for their money...or

make them an offer they can't refuse.

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.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

18 posted on 03/31/2020 8:54:57 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: NorseViking

Very interesting. Although glad they mentioned the various organized crime groups in Italy. Most people know the Mafia - La Costra Nostra - but they are far from being the most powerful group there.


19 posted on 03/31/2020 9:03:00 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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