BARI – «Mafia-style violence is on the rise in the same Italian region where G7 leaders are set to meet» with this title which translates as «Mafia violence is growing in the same region where the G7 will be held» CNN sinks it Puglia in view of the summit that will host the world’s greats in Borgo Egnazia, accusing it of being aon the ground “mafia“. An article, written by Barbie Latza Nadeau, who also throws a jab at the prime minister Giorgia Meloni and, inevitably, it triggers a great controversy in terms of image for our region.
«In the same period in which the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that the meeting of the leaders of G7 would be held in Puglia, southern Italy, as part of the presidency of his country’s economic organization, local anti-mafia investigators were focusing on three mafia cases. criminal groups allegedly responsible for the increase in violence in that country” they write from the American broadcaster. Not exactly a nice business card for the Puglia and for Giorgia Meloni who has brought the spotlight of public attention to this event for some time.
«According to the semi-annual report of the Italian Ministry of the Interior published in January 2024, the groups showed worrying signs of difficulty – the article reports – The prevalence of recorded crime “reflects the dynamism of criminal balances and structures marked not only by conflicts between opposing clans but also by frictions between clans,” the report states. The clans are offshoots of the Sacra Corona, based in the city of Foggia and made up of criminal families who group together in mafia-style associations.”
In the piece published just a few days before the start of the G7 in the Itria Valley, a comparison is made between the Apulian mafia and that of Cosa Nostra in Sicily, with the Camorra in Naples and with the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria, with the difference that – according to what is reported in the CNN article – «the Apulian clans lthey work mainly in Italy and the Balkans cBased in and around the coastal cities of Bari and Brindisi – virtually exactly where the world’s most powerful leaders will meet between June 13 and 15 – the groups have defeated their enemies in brazen daylight attacks and carried out seizures of gunned down at an alarming rate.”
Words that have turned up the noses of the people of Puglia who have long been trying to remove the shame of the mafia from the image of the Heel of Italy. Commissioner Pisani was also questioned in the longform and commented: «It won’t be an easy task because the world’s spotlight will be on Puglia», said Pisani. “And we cannot afford to convey the image of a region in which the mafia, terrorism and common crime have taken over.”
