The last racketeer the Sicilian school

The last racketeer
the Sicilian school

The capture of Michele Zagaria, chief historian of the "Casalesi mafia" and known to most eloquent with the nickname of "Capastorta," can really be considered a milestone in the fight against organized crime.

The same mode of arrest (the bunker, the protective belt of the faithful, the lack of phones intercepted, the stubborn presence in "his" territory, the irony of the head that gives the police the palm of victory), we deliver the profile of a large operation for the taking of a large head.

Great, but also the last of a generation of criminals who, in Campania, have created a new and different group, away from the "postcard" of guappo "Anema e Core" and a lot closer to the iron discipline of the Sicilian Mafia all aimed primarily to the reality of business. Michele Zagaria is the last descendant of a Camorra grown in the shade and the school of the "best" Cosa Nostra, the Mafia Ciaculli and Michele Greek the "pope."

For decades journalists, observers savvy emphasize the particularly dangerous nature of the camorra, rightly considered something different, particularly with respect to the Camorra, locked and focused in managing widespread lawlessness. No, Casale - like the Sicilian Mafia - have always shown the ability to corrupt institutions and consciences of many citizens, a specialty that has allowed the Cosa Nostra crime to take leadership to become the most powerful in the world.

The roots do not betray them was the big boss Antonio Bardellino, a founding member of the award-winning firm of Casale, to incorporate the "family" within the shell of the cost of the Greek Mafia in Palermo, the Bontades and Riccobono. The dish in common, then, was the smuggling of cigarettes. When they began to dominate the people of Corleone, the brothers Lorenzo and Zaza bubble went in that direction.

The business of the blondes producing good earnings, but Casale looked over. The "Sicilian School" led them to aspire to big business. And so, by dint of investing and weave fortunate political friendships - as demonstrated by the story of Mr still open. Nicola Cosentino - find themselves today, just with Zagaria, within the reality of the rich contracts that extend beyond the borders of their territory to move towards areas mistakenly considered immune from the contagion mafia, like Emilia and Lombardy.

Sure, the inaction of "capastorta 'was not as long as that of Riina and Provenzano, but also the police and the judiciary of today are not those of the sixties and seventies. It 'hard not to pull Zagaria fugitives at large, all equal in the rules and discipline, capable of being segregated in a room full months that disappears in a hatch (a similar mechanism was at the house of Giovanni Brusca), in very limited contacts with the' exterior and with strangers, suspicious use of mobile phones and technology (Provenzano not used them, they say he used Zagaria international cards are always different). And then the inevitable sacred images and photos of loved ones in a frame in the shape of a heart.

But beware: it ends, as rightly pointed out the prosecutor Piero Grasso, the myth of an invincible, does not close battle with the monster. The wild animal, on the contrary, it can only become more dangerous because the new advances, even in criminal groups, do not bode well.