{"id":3168,"date":"2021-01-30T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/investigating-the-dangerous-new-mafia-taking-control-in-italy-foreign-correspondent\/"},"modified":"2021-01-30T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T19:51:00","slug":"investigating-the-dangerous-new-mafia-taking-control-in-italy-foreign-correspondent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/investigating-the-dangerous-new-mafia-taking-control-in-italy-foreign-correspondent\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating the Dangerous New Mafia taking control in Italy | Foreign Correspondent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0rSCndxoZ4U?modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\u201cWhen you enter the organization, you cannot get out other than by death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mafia is one of Italy\u2019s most famous international business brands, with an estimated annual turnover of $250 billion a year. But its market share is being challenged by a group of ruthless new players.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Correspondent\u2019s Emma Alberici investigates the growing power of Nigerian organised crime in the birthplace of the Italian mafia.<\/p>\n<p>The director of Italy\u2019s anti-mafia agency says Nigerian crime gangs are organised and dangerous:<br \/>\n\u201cIt has many similar traits to Italian mafia \u2013 its oaths, its sense of belonging, the capacity to coerce, the code of silence\u2026even the local mafia fear them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Specialists in trafficking humans for sexual slavery and drug running, the Nigerians are now being allowed to run their operations in return for giving the Italian mafia a cut. <\/p>\n<p>A former prostitute, trafficked from Nigeria, tells us:<br \/>\n\u2018There\u2019s no pity. If you misbehave\u2026or you can\u2019t continue anymore, they will bring their gun and shoot you.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>We investigate the two main hubs for Nigerian organised crime in Italy.<br \/>\nNorth of Naples, Alberici visits Castel Volturno, an almost lawless coastal town, abandoned by the local Camorra Mafia and by the state. Here, the Nigerian Mafia is left alone to use this once \u201cMafioso Riviera\u201d as a hub for its European operations.<\/p>\n<p>In Sicily, the mafia\u2019s birthplace, we go undercover to expose prostitution and drug houses and catch up with the man named by investigators as one of the Nigerian Mafia\u2019s kingpins.<\/p>\n<p>At a secret location, we speak to Roberto Saviano, one of the world\u2019s most famous Mafia whistle-blowers. He lost his freedom 13 years ago after revealing the sordid workings of the Camorra mafia in Naples. <\/p>\n<p>Now living under permanent police guard, Saviano explains the role Nigerian organised crime plays in Italy\u2019s homegrown mafia. <\/p>\n<p>To stay silent, he says, is to be complicit. <\/p>\n<p>About Foreign Correspondent:<br \/>\nForeign Correspondent is the prime-time international public affairs program on Australia&#8217;s national broadcaster, ABC-TV. We produce half-hour duration in-depth reports for broadcast across the ABC&#8217;s television channels and digital platforms. Since 1992, our teams have journeyed to more than 170 countries to report on war, natural calamity and social and political upheaval \u2013 through the eyes of the people at the heart of it all. <\/p>\n<p>Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC\u2019s Online Terms of Use  (Section 3). This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0rSCndxoZ4U\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen you enter the organization, you cannot get out other than by death.\u201d The mafia is one of Italy\u2019s most famous international business brands, with an estimated annual turnover of $250 billion a year. But its market share is being challenged by a group of ruthless new players. 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