The Covid-19 crisis, a boon for the mafias
Six Italian men were shot dead on August 15, 2007 in Germany, as they left a birthday party.
Prosecutors said the massacre was part of a long-standing feud between two 'Ndrangheta (Calabrian mafia) clans.
© Wolfgang Wiebold / AP Photo
By: Jean-Pierre Boris Follow
2 min
The ubiquitous mafia forces are taking advantage of the Covid-19 crisis and its attendant economic difficulties to expand their penetration of the global economy.
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For a year, faced with the Covid-19 crisis, governments and central banks have sought by all means to put oil in these cogs to preserve the general interest.
But, other forces offer their help to the unemployed or to entrepreneurs in distress.
Occult forces which intervene in their only particular interests.
We are talking about crooks and mafia who are trying by all means to take advantage of the current crisis.
We dedicate this program to them because the amounts involved are colossal and because they endanger the functioning of our economies.
With:
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Chantal Cutajar
,
assistant professor at the University of Strasbourg, specialist in “private law and criminal sciences”, director of the European College of Financial Investigations.
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Dennis Rodgers
,
anthropologist and sociologist.
He conducts research and teaching at the Institut des Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement, in Geneva.
For the past two years, he has been studying gang dynamics in Nicaragua, South Africa and France.
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Clotilde Champeyrache
, lecturer at the University of Paris 8, specialist in the mafia.
Published, in 2020, a book entitled "
The Hidden Face of the Economy, Neoliberalism and Crime
", by Presses Universitaires de France.
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