The Italian clans have long been active in a wide variety of economic sectors. The corona pandemic has given organized crime new business opportunities in the healthcare sector.
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Rome What about the bar back there? “No, I’d rather not.” And the pub next door? “I only go to shops whose owners I’ve known long enough.” Giuseppe De Marzo has to be careful. The activist, economist and writer has been fighting the Italian mafia for more than 20 years.
It leads purposefully to the end of the pedestrian zone in Pigneto, an alternative district of Rome that has squeezed itself onto the city map like a triangle to the east of the train station. Many shops had to close here during the euro financial crisis, says De Marzo. “But in the middle of the crisis, some of them opened up again under new leadership.” For him, this is an indication that the mafia has struck.
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