Die Welt, after Italy’s reactions, is justified as follows, as the newspaper Italia Oggi wrote today: “They took their cue from the article by Roberto Saviano in Repubblica of 23 March in which he warned that the” ndragheta would gain from the epidemic “.
“A shameful and unacceptable claim. I hope the German government distances itself from it. Italy mourns the victims of the Coronavirus today, but it has cried and mourns the victims of the mafia. It is not to make controversy but I do not accept that at this moment such considerations are made “. This was stated by Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, interviewed yesterday in Uno Mattina, regarding an article in the newspaper Die Welt, according to which the mafia is waiting for European aid.
“We do not want other countries to pay our debts, Italy has always paid its debts. We want to create the market conditions so that we can spend all the money needed for infrastructures, therefore in work, in technological innovations “, he added, regarding the negotiations underway in the European Union, where, he stressed,” we are deciding if Italy can spend all the money it needs to help young and old “.
“’Italians (mafia) to keep under control with the European Commission’. Shame on you, in Berlin and Brussels rinse your mouth before talking about Italy and apologize! ”, Matteo Salvini wrote on twitter, commenting on an article in the newspaper Die Welt, according to which the mafia is waiting for European aid.
In the article of the conservative daily, entitled “Frau Merkel remains firm” , it is made clear that “solidarity is an important element of Europe”, but “national sovereignty towards the voters is central”. But this solidarity can be “without limits and controls
“, asks the author of the article. “It should be clear that in Italy, where the mafia is strong and is now waiting for new funding from Brussels, the funds should be paid only for the health system and not for the social and tax system. And of course the Italians have to be controlled by Brussels and use the funds in a way that complies with the rules, ”he adds. “Even in the coronavirus crisis, the fundamental principles must still apply,” he concludes.
But Welt, after our reactions, is justified in this way, as the newspaper Italia Oggi wrote today: “They took their cue from the article by Roberto Saviano in Repubblica of 23 March in which he warned that the” ndragheta would gain from the epidemic ” .
Here are some extracts from the article by the writer Saviano published on March 23 by the newspaper La Repubblica:
“Public emergencies increase the earning potential for many companies, not only for criminal organizations, but the latter in particular have a double advantage: business and silence. Any emergency monopolizes media attention: criminal mechanisms no longer occupy their (already small) space in the news, the imperative of survival dominates everything. Furthermore, in countries such as Italy the already compromised judicial machinery is slowing down in a final form. The pandemic is the ideal place for mafias and the reason is simple: if you are hungry, you are looking for bread, you don’t care which oven it comes from and who is distributing it; if you need a drug, you pay, you don’t wonder who is selling it, you just want it. It is only in times of peace and well-being that the choice is possible.
Just look at the portfolio of the mafias to understand how much they can earn from this pandemic. Where they have invested in the last few decades
Multiservice companies (canteens, cleaning, disinfection), waste cycle, transport, funeral home, oil and food distribution. Here, then, is how they will earn. The mafias know what they need and need, and they give it and they will give it on their terms. It has always been like this. Over the years, the mafias have managed to infiltrate the top of the health sector, as demonstrated by the conviction for the mafia of Carlo Chiriaco, who could at the same time be director of the ASL of Pavia and referent of the ‘Ndrangheta in Lombard health. The real criminal business is not that of the theft of masks for resale. Turkey, India, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania have stopped or reduced the exports of masks; 19 million specimens (including Fpp2, Fpp3 and surgical) are blocked abroad, in the countries of production or in those of transit to Italy. Who will negotiate the unlocks and transits, in your opinion
But we must not only think about the Italian dimension of the criminal phenomenon: the airports and shipping companies of Eastern Europe and South America that are often used for drug trafficking are now preparing to welcome the new goods required by the emergency market. . As we know
The ability of the mafias has always been to be able to apply winning commercial schemes to products that are cheaper each time. And the drug market at the time of the epidemic
The emergency has favored cartels and gangs on the wholesale market: at the moment the controls in the international ports have decreased, the loads pass more easily. At retail, there was an initial surge just before the lockdown, when people stocked up on drugs just like they did groceries. Outside the coffee shops in Amsterdam there were very long lines (sometimes longer than in supermarkets); in New York, drug-run marijuana has seen an exponential increase in distribution in the hours that the shutdown measures were announced. The pushers have filled their warehouses, ready to take it out when prices have skyrocketed; in the meantime they got rid of the poorest goods they had in stock,
