some information about mafia and some of the most disgusting, evil and mean things that mafia has done in Italy, so maybe Americans will stop romanticizing it and will take it as a serious issue - a thread
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first of all- what is mafia?
if you think that it’s all about men wearing a suit talking in an strong southern Italy accent while they’re at a restaurant in Naples and acting like real gentleman, then you’re absolutely wrong.

mafia is a criminal organization that was born in Italy in an unspecified time in the past.
it is organized as a country itself, where there is literally a hierarchy that goes from the weakest “picciotti” to the bosses that are called “Uomini D’Onore” “Men with pride”

there are a lot of “families” (called “cosche”) that are always fighting against each other (like the gang wars that happen in America between the gangsters).

Mafia has controlled (and for some thing still does) Italy and its government, the drug and sex worker market and almost every criminal activity.

the mafia system is based on pure fear and on making people do what you want, respecting and trusting mafia instead of the official law.

one of the most common things that mafia uses to control is to make people or businesses pay a monthly bill to mafia called “pizzo”, and saying to the people who pay it that it will give them a “protection”

if the pizzo is not paid or if someone tells to the police about it,
mafia will hurt their family or will bomb their shops.

being a member of mafia hasn’t always been a crime, if there weren’t proof that u killed/kidnapped someone the Uomini D’Onore were most likely to stay outside prison- it became a crime only in the 80s thanks to a pool organized by some judges called “pool antimafia”

here we go with one of the most important thing: people who FOUGHT mafia and that helped breaking a problem that was one-hundrer times WORSE til they started acting. they helped people opening their eyes and made them realize that u don’t always need to support a corrupt system.

The Antimafia Pool:
Antimafia Pool was a group of investigating judges at the Prosecuting Office who closely worked together sharing information and developing new investigative and prosecutorial strategies against the Sicilian Mafia.

It was created by Judge Rocco Chinnici in the early 1980s. He was murdered by mafia in 1983.

The group pooled together several investigations into the Mafia, which would result in the Maxi Trial against the Mafia starting in February 1986 and which lasted until December 1987. A total of 475 mafiosi were indicted for a multitude of crimes relating to Mafia activities.

The importance of the trial was that the existence of Cosa Nostra (Sicilian Mafia) was finally judicially confirmed and showed to the bosses of mafia that they weren’t invincible, and showed to the people that the COULD rebel to the injustice.

Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were two judges of the Pool. They helped the pool discovering thousands of books with proof against mafia and are two of the most important people in the history of the entire fight against Mafia. They are seen as heroes and symbols in Italy.

Nowadays Mafia still controls some things, but people like Falcone and Borsellino showed people that it’s NOT FAIR to live in fear and that it’s not a good thing just because “it has always existed”. They did an incredible damage to mafia by showing people the reality and-

people stopped being ok with that disgusting corrupted system.

When Paolo Borsellino was murdered the 19th July of 1992, two days later at his funeral outside the church there was about 10,000 of people that when the main government people showed started screaming “fuori la mafia dallo stato” “bring mafia outside the government”

in the 80s-90s Mafia started a thing called “season of massacress” (“stagione delle stragi”) where they damaged monuments and killed people that were fighting against mafia.
These are all the terroristic attacks of it:

these are disgusting REAL moment in Italian History that y’all should think about before simping over mafia and 365 Days

12th March of 1992 - Murder of Salvo Lima
23th May of 1992 - Massacre of Capaci (Murder of Giovanni Falcone)
19th July of 1992 - Massacre of Via D’Amelio (Murder of Paolo Borsellino)
17th September of 1992 - Murder of Ignazio Salvo
14th May of 1993 - FAILED attack of ViaFauro

27th May of 1993 - Massacre of Via dei Georgofilli
27th July of 1993 - Massacre of Via Palestro (Milan)
28th July of 1993 - Bombing of San Giorgio in Velabro and Bombing of San Giovanni in Laterano (Rome)
23th January of 1994 - FAILED attack to the Olimpyc Stadium (Rome)

14th April of 1994 - FAILED murder attempt to Totuccio Contorno

let’s even talk about the thing that makes me cry everytime I think about it and that made me hate 365 days, because it romanticized a REAL AND NOT BEAUTIFUL thing that really happened:
the kidnapping and murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo

when you make tiktoks about aesthetic life as a mafia boss’ wife or think that 365 days and romanticizing mafia r ok, remember that thousands of people died because of mafia and hundreds of people died to fight it and to make Italy a better country.
stop.simping.over.mafia

I want to apologize for all my grammatical mistakes but I had the time to make a re-read just now

since this ia blowing up (thank u all!!) I want to suggest even some movies and books to educate yourself even more:

Book:
“That’s why my name is Giovanni” (Per questo mi chiamo Giovanni) - it talks about the life of Judge Giovanni Falcone
Movies:
“The traitor” about Tommaso Buscetta, the first ex-mafioso to testify against Mafia
“The 100 steps” (I cento passi) about Giuseppe Impastato-

a man that made a radio to speak against Sicilian Mafia that was murdered

is blowing up** omg I can’t write

since I’ve seen in the rt that some of you don’t understand why I used the term of cultural appropriation:
I used it because when people talk and see mafia just as an aesthetic, make videos about it, they are “appropriating” of something that they shouldn’t talk about-

and talk about a topic in the WRONG way and that doesn’t affect them in the way it does and has done in Italy. but ofc we are not happy and we should prefer not having it, I hope that like this you’ll understand why I used it

an another movie (ty @magicallymee ) is
“under the sun’s light” (alla luce del sole), it’s about a Priest called Don Pino Puglisi that helped young kids staying away from the Mafia in Quartiere Brancaccio (Palermo, Italy)

when you make tiktoks about aesthetic life as a mafia boss’ wife or think that 365 days and romanticizing mafia r ok, remember that thousands of people died because of mafia and hundreds of people died to fight it and to make Italy a better country.
stop.simping.over.mafia