Signs of growing tensions last week prompted the interior minister, Luciana Lamorgese, to request greater police attention to 'riots by groups of extremists.'
Signs of growing tensions in Italy last week prompted the interior minister, Luciana Lamorgese, to request greater police attention to"riots by groups of extremists." His warning was aimed at the mafia, which has capitalized on the pandemic by distributing food, clothing, and money to underprivileged families in lockdown and stoking the tensions underscoring the difficulties of keeping a nation at home.
"Any provision that enables people to be free and autonomous helps in the long run also the fight against mafias, who recruit among those in need," Varese said, noting that handing out food itself is not illegal."The fight against the mafia to be effective must also include social policies that drain away the support Mafias might have in the community. Such policies must come from the government.
The warnings of unrest extend beyond organized crime and the working class wanting to go back to work, to those who, according to Orlando, rely on petty crime to survive. He has since asked the federal government to establish a basic income because he fears"criminal groups could promote violent acts."
Federico Cafiero De Raho, the national anti-mafia prosecutor, cautioned that"social consensus is a part of [the mafia's] expansion plan." De Raho, in an interview with Reuters, said that Camorra clans were distributing food to cash-strapped families under quarantine and offering loans whose payments may one day only be paid through working for the mafia."The Camorra knows this is the right time to invest," he said.
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