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Italy s mafias - boosted by Covid, now eyeing EU s billions
According Italy s anti-mafia investigation directorate, criminal organisations have all the interest in fuelling episodes of urban disorder by exploiting the situation of economic hardship to turn it into social protests, especially in the south (Photo: EUobserver)
Bologna, Today, 07:02
In early March 2020, as Italy was being brought to its knees by Covid-19, protests broke out in many prisons across the country.
Some degenerated into actual riots. According to ongoing investigations, Italy s various mafias appear to have played a major role in fomenting the chaos.
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