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Tomaso Buscetta: Palermo 1986: What makes this Mafia trial different from any other is the cracking of the Mafia code of silence. One man’s testimony is said to convict over 400 members of the Mafia. His betrayal makes him the Mafia’s most wanted man … ‘The most significant Mafia turncoat in criminal history.’ Our Godfather, news, Netflix 2019
A 3,000-page confession that links Mafia groups in Italy with those of the United States. ibid.
Brazilian police confirmed the notorious gangster Tomaso Buscetta has been to Italy where he faces drug-trafficking charges. ibid.
They sent him to the United States because Italy had no infrastructure to protect him. ibid. wife
There’s a dark heart to this tourist dream. Italy is also a society of organised crime, corruption and unsolved murders. Out of this chilling reality a new wave of crime fiction has emerged. With its own twist on the redemptions of the detective novel ... A noir world with no happy endings. Italian Noir: The Story of Italian Crime Fiction, BBC 2010
The detective novels of Andrea Camilleri are set in contemporary Sicily. They deal with the casebook of the worldly Inspector Montalbano of the local police force. ibid.
In That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana Carlo Emilio Gadda employed a crime story to explore Italy’s fascist era. ibid.
Into the 1960s Leonardo Sciascia’s novels would expose the power of the Sicilian Mafia. ibid.
This neo-fascist bombing began a decade of terror. ibid.
In 1978 the kidnapping and murder of former prime minister Aldo Moro troubled Italians. ibid.
The Goodbye Kiss is filmed as a modern-day noir. ibid.
Giancarlo de Cataldo: Romanzo Criminale. ibid.
There’s a new front line in the War against organised crime: in southern Italy’s rugged highlands a previously unknown criminal group meets ... Europe’s biggest cocaine traffickers. John Dickie, This World: The Mafia's Secret Bunkers, BBC 2013
Forcing Mafiosi underground into bizarre and sophisticated bunkers. From here they run their criminal empires. ibid.
Calabrian ’Ndrangheta: building this subterranean labyrinth was a major enterprise. ibid.
A secret society of criminals: kidnapping for ransom ... often for years. ibid.
Cosa Nostra works like a shadow state using extortion as its tax. ibid.
A global Mafia federation with an annual turnover estimated at forty-four billion Euros. ibid.
Calabria’s institutions have been profoundly infiltrated. ibid.
The gangstas hold the real power in the region. ibid.
Hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing: those three things will keep you alive. That is the code of Italy’s most violence Mafia: the Camorra. And this is where it’s gripped the strongest – Naples. A city in the heart of Europe. It’s brutality is notorious. It’s killed more people than the IRA. This World: Mark Franchetti, Italy’s Bloodiest Mafia, BBC 2011
There’s another side to the city if you know where to look. The grim estates of north Naples. With addicts openly shooting up after buying heroin from the Camorra. ibid.
Neapolitans don’t call it the Camorra. They call it Itsistema – the System. The System isn’t one organisation with a single godfather like Sicily’s Cosa Nostra. It’s a system of competing, often warring, criminal clans who can strike anyone at any time. ibid.
The Camorra has been a blight on Naples for more than a century ... It wasn’t until it started dealing in illegal drugs that it became truly rich. ibid.
The Camorra has raked in millions dumping toxic waste on this land. ibid.
[Gennaro] Panzuto was a Mafia boss; for years he played a key role in the Naple’s Camorra, but now he’s turned state witness and is helping put his former associates behind bars. Our World: Confessions of a Mafia Killer, BBC 2020
The Camorra is the City’s Mafia, one of the world’s most deadly and secretive criminal networks, but now one of its bosses and killers is breaking the code of silence. ibid.
Panzutto’s white-collar helpers set up dozens of companies to trade goods between northern England and Naples; it was a big tax dodging scam which started with shoes … He was arrested and extradited. ibid.
The branch of the Mob hounded by the Italian justice system is called the ’Ndrangheta. Lea [Garofalo] tried to help overthrow its power, but only by putting her own life at risk. It was a crime which forced Italy to confront ugly truths. Evil Up Close: Victim of the Mob s5e4
Over the past twenty-five years the victims of the ’Ndrangheta have been more than two hundred. ibid.
The ’Ndrangheta organisation uses murder, kidnapping and fear to control scores of villages like this … The ’Ndrangheta is actually growing in power, spreading internationally. Mediterranean with Simon Reeve I, BBC 2018
Pompeii: the ancient Roman city destroyed and buried by a volcano. Now experts are re-examining a 2000-year-old crime scene in the city: a basement full of bodies, many of them robbed of all their worldly goods. It’s an investigation that will reveal Pompeii was living in fear of criminal gangs where rough justice ruled and where retribution and brutality were never far away. Could our image of Pompeii as a highly civilised Roman metropolis be false? New evidence is revealing an underworld of lawlessness and godfathers. A city where the fear of death loomed large long before the cataclysmic eruption. Gangs of Pompeii aka Pompeii: The Bodies in the Basement, Channel 5 2019
A world where thieves would steal from the dead in the midst of a natural disaster. ibid.
An enormous underclass … ‘Ordinary people had a difficult life, had a short life, lived a much more violent life.’ ibid. Dr Russell
The Roman empire was surprisingly lawless. As far as the government was concerned, protecting life and property was a matter for individuals. ibid.
Groups were known to use violence to get their own way. The graffiti across Pompeii reveals the city was gripped by powerful collegia, each with their own agenda. ibid.
Growing friction between Pompeii and its neighbours. ibid.
Rome laid down measures to take back control. ibid.