The national anti-mafia investigative
directorate (DIA) said Tuesday that mafia intimidation of mayors
and local councillors was on the rise in Italy.
"Cases of intimidation against local administrators, both
municipal councillors and mayors, are on the rise", said the
director of the DIA, Michele Carbone, on the sidelines of the
presentation of its report on activities carried out in the
first half of 2023.
"This happens where corruption does not come into the equation,
when that fails intimidation begins, " he explained.
"There are episodes of collusion in the political and
administrative apparatuses, as demonstrated by the long series
of municipal councils dissolved for mafia infiltration," said
Carbone.
"Where the many public administrations oppose these
infiltrations, they are subjected to harassment and threats to
make them bow down to these organisations."
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