Giovanni Tartaglia Polcini has been active as a prosecutor in Naples for over 20 years and works with international work against organized crime and corruption. Italy has long been affected by extensive illegal structures and mafia activities, not least in Sicily. In recent years, however, the influence of the Sicilian mafia has decreased and the number of acts of violence has been relatively few.
The success factors include, among other things, a broad political consensus so that the authorities can work long-term and not least to strike against the mafia where it feels right: The money.
– The real power of organized crime is the money, not the weapons. The real power that gives them the opportunity to take root in society is economic, he says.
Hear him list five key success factors for accessing gangs in the video above.