In Palermo, Latin American magistrates meet Italian ones “on the trail traced by Falcone and Borsellino”

The crossroads of the good drug trafficking that floods the nations of the European Union with cocaine is the Latin American continent. And it’s right here that a very powerful transnational investigations into felony networks and cash laundering by which anti-mafia prosecutors are engaged develop.

Research and coordination conferences

To counter it, worldwide coordination is important between the prosecutors of Iberoamerica and the Italian ones and because of this, on the initiative of the nationwide anti-mafia and anti-terrorism prosecutor Giovanni Melillo, for 3 days, from Wednesday to Friday (22-24 Could), on the anniversary of the Capaci mafia bloodbath, magistrates from Latin America and Italians will arrive in Palermo for examine and coordination conferences. Authorized diplomacy is impressed by the large technical and worth legacy of Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino.

The menace additionally exists in northern Europe

Drug trafficking, because the investigators of the nationwide anti-mafia prosecutor’s workplace level out, is asserting itself “in an more and more constant manner as a present menace additionally in northern Europe, in nations historically thought of resistant to the actions of cartels and mafias, which file ranges of day by day violence with out precedents.”

Latin American organized crime

Latin American organized crime is aware of no limits as a result of it’s violent and highly effective and at present proposes a mafia mannequin much like that of the bloodbath wing of Cosa Nostra, a lot in order that “at present it constitutes a worldwide menace”. This painful parallel with Italy exhibits how intently linked the destinies and work of our nation’s judiciary are with that of Latin America.

The prosecutor’s workplaces of twenty-two nations

The assembly of the Crimson de Fiscales Antidroga (RFAI), the Ibero-American affiliation of Aiamp prosecutors, to which the Nationwide Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate is a member, is scheduled for Could twenty second. Aiamp brings collectively the general public prosecutor’s workplaces of twenty-two nations. The purpose is to draft an implementation protocol for all prosecutors of the taking part nations on the usage of undercover brokers in anti-drug operations.

The community of Latin American prosecutors

On the identical time, the Community of Latin American prosecutors towards felony finance will meet in Palermo. 18 nations be a part of the community. The conclusions can be entrusted to prosecutor Melillo on Friday. Among the many magistrates who will take part there’s additionally Diana SalazarLawyer Normal of Ecuador “the enemy of narcos”, indicated by Time among the many hundred most influential personalities of 2024; Luz Adriana CamagoLawyer Normal of Colombia and Lincoln GakiyaJustice of the Peace from Sao Paulo who investigates the PCC group, which is the biggest felony group in South America which additionally has connections with the ‘Ndrangheta.

The trail traced by Falcone and Borsellino

The CCP tried to kill Gakiya for his investigations into narcos. And the district attorneys will discuss new drug trafficking situations Giovanni Bombardieri (Reggio Calabria), Maurizio de Lucia (Palermo), Nicola Gratteri (Naples) e Marcello Viola (Milan) and the undersecretary can even communicate Alfredo Mantovano. All this on the trail traced by Falcone and Borsellino.

“The armed battle”

From what emerges from worldwide investigations, conventional felony teams are flanked by much more harmful organizations, in some circumstances able to attacking establishments “as in an armed battle”. Amongst these episodes is the homicide of the candidate within the presidential elections in Ecuador, Ferdinando Villavicencio (9 August 2023), journalist and political activist, recognized for his dedication towards corruption, which occurred in disconcerting circumstances in the course of the electoral marketing campaign by Colombian hitmen, subsequently arrested after which murdered in jail.

The homicide of Marcello Pecci Albertini

And even the homicide of the Justice of the Peace of Italian origins Marcello Pecci Albertini, one of the vital vital prosecutors in Paraguay, specialised towards organized crime and drug trafficking, in addition to that of the Ecuadorian prosecutor Cesar Suarez, shot lifeless final January within the metropolis of Guayaquil. Suárez handled drug trafficking, terrorism and arranged crime within the province of Guayas, one of the vital violent areas of the nation. And though these situations could seem removed from Italy, the Nationwide Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Workplace underlines that “the very shut interconnections and relationships between Italian mafia associations and worldwide drug trafficking networks represent a greater than established historic and procedural actuality”.

The necessity for better coordination

In Italy, the circulation of cocaine from South American producing nations, specifically from Ecuador, Brazil and Guatemala, is consistently rising, from the ports to which the waterway from the Triple Border results in these of Chile. Within the two-year interval 2021-2023 alone The Italian anti-mafia district prosecutors have labored on 1,783 open proceedings for the crime of felony affiliation aimed toward drug trafficking, for a complete of 16,736 folks below investigation. All this requires a brand new international and shared prevention and distinction technique. And subsequently the necessity for better coordination between prosecutors and police pressure operators. Simply as Giovanni Falcone’s instinct was.