{"id":5460,"date":"2025-02-11T17:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/police-blitz-targeting-italian-mafia-nets-nearly-150-arrests-historic-blow\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:43:01","slug":"police-blitz-targeting-italian-mafia-nets-nearly-150-arrests-historic-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/police-blitz-targeting-italian-mafia-nets-nearly-150-arrests-historic-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"Police blitz targeting Italian mafia nets nearly 150 arrests: &#8220;Historic blow&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Italian police arrested almost 150 people Tuesday in a major operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which remain in the grip of powerful Cosa Nostra clans.<\/p>\n<p>Warrants were issued against a total of 183 people, 36 of whom were already in custody, for crimes including mafia-type criminal association, attempted murder, extortion, drug trafficking and illegal gambling, police said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,200 officers were involved in dawn raids, in what media reports said was the biggest operation against the Cosa Nostra since 1984.<\/p>\n<p>The Sicilian mafia, the inspiration for the &#8220;Godfather&#8221; movies, is no longer the force it once was, subject to years of crackdowns by authorities and overtaken in terms of power and wealth by Calabria&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/ndrangheta\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ndrangheta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Palermo police said their two-year probe had revealed how it &#8220;continues to maintain its grip,&#8221; these days coordinated by messages on encrypted smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hailed the operation, which she said &#8220;confirms the state&#8217;s constant commitment to the fight against organized crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Palermo Mayor Roberto Lagalla also praised the operation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comune.palermo.it\/novita\/mafia-maxi-blitz-dei-carabinieri-dichiarazione-del-sindaco-lagalla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">saying in a statement<\/a> that the arrests &#8220;dealt a historic blow to the mafia.&#8221; <\/p>\n<h2>Mafia &#8220;exercises constant control&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s operation was aimed at dismantling Mafia clans in several districts of the Sicilian capital Palermo and its surrounding areas, after an investigation that provides an insight into how they operate.<\/p>\n<p>Police described how the clans cooperated on drug trafficking &#8212; a major source of income &#8212; while also working with mobsters elsewhere in Sicily, and with the &#8216;Ndrangheta on the Italian mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Within its territory, the mafia &#8220;exercises constant control,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>As in decades past, they demand &#8220;pizzo&#8221;, or protection money, from businesses, and force traders to use their products, often at inflated prices.<\/p>\n<p>In one example, investigators revealed how a clan took control of distributing mussels and other seafood to restaurants in two seaside villages.<\/p>\n<p>While Cosa Nostra bosses these days try to resolve disputes peacefully to avoid attracting attention, weapons were found in Tuesday&#8217;s blitz, police said, while reporting incidents of brutal beatings.<\/p>\n<p>The old rules of top-down organization and membership until death still hold sway but police said clan leaders were &#8220;up to date,&#8221; using encrypted smartphones to communicate to avoid traditional meetings.<\/p>\n<p>And despite numerous arrests over the years, the Sicilian mafia &#8220;still manages to attract a large number of young people who embrace its principles&#8221; and offer to work for them, police said. Last\u00a0 March, Italy\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/italy-mafia-children-program-takes-kids-from-organized-crime-families\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">expanded a controversial program<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to remove children from their mafia families to break the cycle of criminal behavior being passed down to new generations.<\/p>\n<p>The new investigation also revealed a wide network of informants, with a clerk in the Palermo prosecutors office arrested last November accused of passing on files.<\/p>\n<p>The Sicilian Mafia for many years terrorized the Italian public and state, notorious for the killings anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>But that led to a fierce state clampdown and the &#8216;Ndrangheta is now considered Italy&#8217;s wealthiest and most powerful mafia, which controls the bulk of cocaine flowing into Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Matteo Messina Denaro, the convicted mastermind of some of the Cosa Nostra  mafia&#8217;s most heinous slayings, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/matteo-messina-denaro-dies-sicilian-mafia-boss-captured-30-year-manhunt-dead-hospital-prison-ward\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">died <\/a><\/span>in Sept. 2023, several months after being\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mafia-matteo-messina-denaro-arrest-italy-cosa-nostra-sicily\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">captured as Italy&#8217;s No. 1 fugitive<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and following decades on the run.<\/p>\n<p>But Italy&#8217;s mafia still wields influence that extends from tourism to prisons. 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