Residents confined to Naples on April 6, 2020. - Salvatore Laporta / IPA / I / SIPA

The health catastrophe in Italy benefits the mafia. According to the expert journalist of the criminal organizations Roberto Saviano, the mafia distribute food products and contribute to the granting of free loans to the most underprivileged to attract good graces.

Companies in difficulty targeted

Mafia groups are also seeking to appropriate troubled businesses, this country hoping to receive European funding to deal with the economic crisis, added Thursday the author of the book Gomorra on Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. "The mafia is waiting for that, a crisis" because the companies that will be victims will then find themselves with new partners with links to these criminal organizations, continued Roberto Saviano. "You become a partner, you go into business," he said. "It is not as if someone came with a gun, it is their financial advisers who at some point" recommend that they do so.

"If Europe does not intervene soon, the multiplication of the mafia money that is already found in Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium will be uncontrolled," added the journalist.

Brussels financial aid coveted

In addition to providing food to the poor, in Naples, the large city in southern Italy, pawnbrokers canceled interest on their debts on the orders of Camorra. " What purpose ? In order to (get) services ”in exchange, said Roberto Saviano, who currently lives in New York and had been entitled to police protection after leaving Gomorra because of the threats he had received at the time. It could be voting in elections or being nominees in contracts, he said.

The same day, the German newspaper Die Welt confirmed this analysis. "In Italy, the mafia is just waiting for a new shower of money from Brussels," warned the newspaper, warning against the "unlimited" and "without any control" of funding by Europe in connection with the crisis. caused by Covid-19. Comments immediately qualified by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio as "shameful" and "unacceptable".

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