CNN raises the alarm in view of the Big Seven summit, scheduled in Puglia this week. “Mafia-type violence is on the rise in the Italian region where the G7 leaders will meet”, is the title of a report published on the US broadcaster’s website. “At the same time that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that the G7 leaders’ meeting would be held in Puglia, southern Italy, as part of her country’s presidency, local anti-mafia investigators were focusing on three criminal groups of mafia origin, held responsible for the increase in violence in the region”, reads the report.
CNN cites the Italian Interior Ministry’s semi-annual report, published in January, according to which these criminal groups were showing “worrying signs”. 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 within the clans”, states the report cited by the broadcaster, which explains that the groups in question they are offshoots of the Sacra Corona Unita.
The security machine protecting the G7 leaders is well consolidated and led by Digos, reports CNN, which again citing the report from the Ministry of the Interior, notes that preventive “cleaning work” has been underway for almost a year, with particular attention to “possible Islamic sleeper cells”, through monitoring arrivals at airports and sea ports.
