This statement from Senator Giuseppe Pisanu, who served several times as a Minister, including as Minister of the Interior, and who is the chairman of the Joint Commission of the Camera dei Deputati (National Assembly) and the Senato della Repubblica (Senate) “Anti-Mafia” is of paramount importance.
It was delivered after a visit to Genoa during which the Commission interviewed Prefect Antonio Musolino, the Prefect of Police, the commanders of the Carabinieri, the ‘Guardia di Finanza’ (in charge of investigations into economic crime and border control), the Directorate for Anti-Mafia Investigations, the Prosecutors of the Republic of Genoa, Sanremo and Chiavari, and representatives of the economic world led by the President of the Chamber of Commerce.
The proclaimed aim of this initiative: Update the situation and issue a warning. When we consider the interdependence between cross-border areas and the impact on the economy (particularly for construction activities as well as for commercial activities, bars, and restaurants) of money laundering from crime, can we say that Nice and its region are immune to these dangers?
Hence, the necessity of a state of alert!
A situation defined as “delicate and worrying” regarding the infiltration in Liguria of organized crime into the social, economic, and political fabric.
In short, the existence of a “grey area” of lawlessness managed by the most well-known organizations (Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Neapolitan Camorra, and Calabrian N’Drangheta with the latter in the number one position);
According to the President of the “Anti-Mafia” Commission, four cities are particularly affected: Genoa, where the main ‘ndrina is said to be based, then Lavagna and Sarzana (eastern coast of the Ligurian Riviera), and Ventimiglia.
The latter city would play a strategic role in this setup, serving as a sort of ‘clearinghouse’ of relations between the criminal organization located on the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria and the one based on the Côte d’Azur and Marseille.
Moreover, this supposition was confirmed by the decision of the Council of Ministers, which, on the recommendation of the Ministry of the Interior, dissolved the Municipal Council of Bordighera, while a similar prediction can be made for that of Ventimiglia, a commission being at work to monitor a situation that the same Senator Pisanu has described as “non-consoling (not encouraging).”
Finally, we report the comment from Laura Garavini°, a deputy of the Italian National Assembly, elected in the European electoral constituency (she resides in Germany and has Italian citizenship by birth and German citizenship by marriage): “There can be no economic development and success except within the framework of fair competition. And there will be no competitiveness until respect for legality is assured.
