Giuseppe Dainotti an alleged boss in the Sicilian mafia was gunned down in broad daylight while bicycling through the middle of Palermo according to reports.
Authorities believe that he was shot in the neck by at least two hit men that pulled up alongside him on a motorbike or scooter. The 67-year-old mafia boss who was released from prison in 2014 was killed a day before the 25th anniversary of the murder of top anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and Palermo chief prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi said the hit may have been symbolic. He was believed to be close to former Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore Cancemi who was involved in the preparations for the murders of Falcone and fellow magistrate Paolo Borsellino.
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Cancemi ended up turning on his mafia pals back in 2003 and became a police collaborator giving authorities information about Falcone’s death and more. According to Italian media reports, Dainotti enemies nicknamed him Gano di Magonza (Ganelon) in reference to the knight who betrayed Charlemagne to the Muslims. The strength and clout of the Sicilian mafia have weakened over the last few years and they have been surpassed in power by the Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Camorra in Naples. But Lo Voi said, “When some people claim the mafia no longer exists or has been destroyed, something always happens to confirm it is still there.”
The number of mafia killing and overall violence associated with organized crime has severely decreased in recent years but when needed the mafia is still more than willing to kill. Renato Cortese the police chief in Palermo recently expressed some concerns about a number of convicted Sicilian mobsters that are about to be released from prison. He said, “There is always the fear that if Cosa Nostra can find a rational head that can bring together the disparate souls, it could become as dangerous as it used to be.”
Matteo Messina Denaro believed to be one of the new heads of the Sicilian mob has been a fugitive since 1993 and remains on the run. Denaro has been considered by many as the successor to former mob boss Bernardo Provenzano who was arrested back in 2006. Authorities think the 2007 arrest of Salvatore Lo Piccolo believed to be one of the rival mobsters vying for power within Cosa Nostra along with Denaro helped to strengthen his position as one of the leading mafia bosses today.
Will be interesting to see if the cops there find a way to link this back to DeNaro as they continue to tighten the rope around him and he seems to be the guy they are most interesting in busting over there.
What makes you think that Matteo Messina Denaro had anything to do with this? Do you know how many different Mafia clans are in Sicily? Over a hundred. This isn’t the American Mafia you know, this is the real deal. They’ve been tightening the rope around Mr. Denaro for 24 years lol.
Really, No? lol sorry but you act like your teaching me something here, cmon guy we are all pretty well versed around here about the mob here and there and how they are structured and work so yeah no real need for that. This could have been a settling of accounts and of course and I wasn’t saying he had anything to do with it my point is that he is the guy with the huge target on his back over there right now and the cops much like feds here wanna link everything possible to him to make his capture as big a story as possible. Just like Bulger here its just a matter of time before they catch him but when they do you can bet they want to be able to showcase it as one of the biggest wins in quite some time.
Everytime they capture a major fugitive Mafia boss over there they always showcase it as one of the biggest wins and then follow it with an absurd claim that the Mafia is finished. But anyone who knows anything knows that bosses get caught all the time yet the wheels of the Mafia keep spinning. Even if they slapped a pair of handcuffs on him today the fact still remains that it took them 24 years to do so. Not to mention he was able to run his criminal empire and even become more powerful while on the run.
Agreed his capture will def not end anything I mean we have seen plenty of bosses go down and your right the wheels keep spinning as there is too much money being generated for things to stop. It seems like his deep political ties and the level of corruption that remains there has def benefited him over all these years and probably reason why he is still out there so even though the Sicilian mafia may not be quite as powerful these days as the Ndrangheta they are still a very formidable and powerful organization so him being able to avoid capture this long is really impressive. Even though they may not hold top spot over there now they def seem to be bringing in plenty of cash and have remained a real force. I think a little of them being surpassed as top dog can be attributed to them shifting to wanting a lower profile and taking a step back from the un-needed violence while they reorganized more so than the organizations loss of clout.
But yeah you are right. I didn’t say that you were wrong about anything. And no I’m not trying to teach you anything lol.
I don’t buy that the Sicilian mob is surpassed by the Camorra, which is much more chaotic more a accumulation of gangs. Sicilian mob remains highly organized even while being decimated by law enforcement, and has shifted away from resorting to violence (well… there is exceptions… obviously). It is therefore not so prominent in the (international) headlines. But go to Sicily and you will be told that it still is deeply embedded in society.
Cosa Nostra Is Really a Shadow of its former self with all the arrests and the informants One has to wonder if some the clans within cosa nostra regret following the corleonesi in their campaign murder of the old mafia guard and goverment officals in the early 80s ..it got them nothing, they lost everything for nothing
Yeah, I have several recent articles about multi-billion dollar asset seizures that suggest otherwise. If Cosa Nostra is such a shadow, why are they making billions and why is it taking them 24 years to capture their top boss? Killing off government officials in the fashion that they did actually proved to the world that Cosa Nostra is capable of spectacular assassinations which enhanced their reputation.
This doesn’t sound like an organization that’s a shadow of its former self to me. They’re letting ruthless Mafia bosses out on furloughs.
Italian police on Friday in northern Tuscany arrested fugitive Cosa Nostra boss Concetto Bonaccorsi who failed to return to a Naples prison after a three-day furlough, reports AnsaNews
Bonaccorsi, the reputed ranking boss of the Cappello-Bonaccorsi clan of Cosa Nostra, is serving life for murder, drugs trafficking and Mafia conspiracy.
Investigations led police to a villa in Tuscany where Bonaccorsi was hiding out while on the run since last September, said police
According to investigators, Bonaccorsi is considered the most dangerous boss of the Mafia based in Catania. He is a hothead with a hair-trigger temper and a long rap sheet that includes murder
Doesn’t sound like an organization that’s a shadow of its former self to me.
Italian police on Wednesday in the Sicilian city of Catania arrested 17 suspected members and associates of the Laudani mafia family accused of criminal association aimed at fraud
The investigation, dubbed “Podere Mafioso”, took place between late 2014 and December last year and it involved over 20 Mafia suspects, supposedly involved in a fake farm workers fraud scheme
According to investigators, top capo’s of the Laud clan recruited mafia affiliated accountants and business experts who created a secret sophisticated system that supplied the clan with fake farm laborers”and ghost companies for the purpose of illegally securing government grants worth millions
Arrest and informants have decimated CN, yes, but Sicilian society is still plagued with it. It is deeply embedded in politics and economy. I assume when CN began to resort from violent conflict resolution (as we can see now there is exceptions…) public interest and (international) media coverage went downhill. There was nothing fancy to report about. But it never went away. It’s also hard to tell if Camorra surpasses CN. By what? Members? Profit? I doubt.
I think what people don’t realize is that there have always been snitches in the Mafia, even when it first started back in the days of horse and carriage. There have also always been mass arrests, back before there was even photography, when trials were drawn on paper instead. The Mafia has also been declared dead many times throughout its history, yet they manage to come back stronger than ever before. We think informants and arrests are something new but they’re really not.
The Mafia in Sicily is still strong Matteo Denaro is a smart billionaire who has a lust for business he made so much money that the local police and government think they seized all his wealth a couple years ago lmao. But in reallity it was not even a quarter of the rackets, properties and money which he owns right now and it was also believed that thanks to him the Sicilian economy has increased he provided many jobs to the Sicilian citizens… The only thing which still keeps following him was the 1993 bombings which killed Giovanni Falcone and Bursellino that’s why he’s in hiding ever since but he had to follow the orders of Toto Riina because he was nuts.