The dazzling transformation of French drug trafficking teams, “between the mafia and the cartel” | EUROtoday

Disjointed our bodies, dripping with blood, litter the sidewalks of boulevards and alleys every single day: Palermo, within the early Eighties, was a metropolis at warfare. Death is promised to anybody who interferes with the mafia ambitions of the clan of Corleonesi. It is that this sinister horizon that the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, augurs for France throughout the France 5 program “C à Vous” on November 21. “We can become the Palermo of the 1980s if we don’t wake up”he mentioned, when requested concerning the affect of drug traffickers.

A symbolic declaration of the current trivialization of references to Italian mafias to outline French legal organizations in public debate. In just a few months, the phrase “mafia”, lengthy taboo, has change into commonplace, carrying a strong creativeness, on the threat of caricature.

The fashionable Italian definition of a mafia is discovered within the Italian Rognoni-La Torre regulation, handed on September 13, 1982, and included into article 416 bis of the Italian penal code. She mentions as such the legal organizations which handle specifically to determine within the territory a “associative link” robust sufficient to create the“subjugation” and the“omerta”. This textual content is inseparable from the Sicilian context of the time, but in addition from the destiny of its most important instigator: Pio La Torre, communist deputy from Palermo, murdered, together with his driver on this metropolis on April 30, 1982, whereas he was on his option to the social gathering headquarters.

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