“More or less the same time in which the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that the G7 leaders meeting would be held in the southern Italian region of Puglia, local anti-mafia investigators were targeting three mafia-style criminal groups.” He brings it back an article by Barbie Latza Nadeau published on the website of the well-known American TV channel, CNN.
The journalist recalled what was written in the latest Dia reports on the bitter conflicts between clans, highlighting the obstinacy of the Sacra Corona Unita. Like many other colleagues in the press, especially foreign ones, the CNN editor also caused confusion by comparing the Sacra Corona Unita to the city of Foggia. It is erroneously written that “the groups are offshoots of the Sacra Corona crime syndicate, based in the city of Foggia and made up of criminal families who group themselves into clans”. But it’s not like that at all, the Sacred Crown is present in southern Pugliain Bari there are the clans of the capital and in Foggia and the province they are active the Foggia Society, the Gargano mafia and the clans of San Severo and Cerignola.
But let’s go further: “Unlike the more well-known Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the Camorra in Naples and the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria, which have a large international footprint – we read -, the groups in Puglia work – according to Digos – largely within Italy and the Balkans”.
CNN highlighted the “brazen” attacks, also carried out “in the light of day” right in Bari, Brindisi and surrounding areas “where the most powerful leaders in the world will meet between 13 and 15 June”. Also cited were “armed carjackings at an alarming rate.” And again: “There have been several murders of high-profile revenge between the clans in recent months, according to local media reports, and several mutilations.”
The article also contains a reference to municipalities dissolved due to mafia “due to the infiltration of clans and the use of extortion to maintain control of the territory”.
The journalist then recalled a statement by the prefect of Brindisi: “No one could have predicted that in view of the G7, scheduled from 13 to 15 June, Puglia, where meetings between the powerful leaders of the world will be held, would be influenced by criminal events which, although not connected to each other, make the even more complex security management“.
Many too beauties highlighted by CNN, from olive trees to trulli to luxury resorts like the one in Borgo Egnazia which will host the summit between the world’s powerful. Puglia is a destination for numerous entertainment and sports stars: “Da David and Victoria Beckham to Madonna and Ivanka Trump“.
“A ‘red zone’ of 10 kilometers (six miles) has been created around Borgo Egnazia – it continues – and a further ‘yellow zone’ of 30 kilometers will be rigorously patrolled to protect the approximately 130 working groups and 21 meetings ministerial. Even the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the king of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud they should join the leaders of the G7 nations: the United States, Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Canada and Japan.” Also expected Pope francesco who will participate in a session on artificial intelligence.
“More than 5,000 specially trained soldiers have been deployed to the region, huge cruise ships are moored offshore to help keep delegations safe and a US aircraft carrier is expected to arrive by the weekend and anchor off the coast of Puglia.”
