Mafia originated from the Easter Sicilian uprising 1282. When a Palermo girl was raped by French soldiers on her wedding day, Sicily began to take revenge crazily. They attacked every Frenchman they met and put forward "Mortolla francica, Italia Anela" (Italian "it is Italy's wish to destroy France"). Mafia is the acronym of this slogan. This uprising was called "Sicilian Evening Prayer" in European history.
At the same time, mafia means "refuge" in Arabic. Even if history can be overturned, Sicily will still have a mafia of Arab descent, and they will still choose the mafia as their symbol.
In western society, the Italian Mafia is the underworld organization with the longest activity time, the widest penetration range, the most ferocious and notorious criminal struggle. Western countries have always put the means to deal with the mafia in the first place when cracking down on criminal offences. However, after more than a century of repeated raids and encirclement and suppression, this gang originated in Sicily has not been eradicated, but has extended its black hand to all parts of the world, and is still engaged in kidnapping, assassination, extortion, explosion robbery, drug trafficking and smuggling in Europe, America and even many Asian countries. According to the estimation of international criminal experts, there are more than 500 factions, hundreds of thousands of followers and accomplices in the Italian mafia alone, which are spread all over the government, judicial departments and even all walks of life. As for the black-handed partisans who infiltrated foreign countries and the mafia members of various countries affected by them, there are no fewer than one million people. A large part of the global drug trafficking and cigarette smuggling activities are monopolized by the mafia, and the annual turnover of the Italian mafia alone reaches hundreds of billions of dollars, accounting for at least one tenth of Italy's gross national product. Mafia's criminal and economic crimes can be said to be omnipotent in today's western society, and black hands are everywhere, so that people call them "flowing air" and "social cancer"
Italian mafia originated in the end of 18 and the beginning of 19. At that time, in order to consolidate the fenced garden, Sicilian manor owners specially found some cruel, violent and unemployed people with criminal records as thugs to guard the manor, and gave them armed and great power to deal with rebellious serfs cruelly. These thugs, whose hands were stained with the blood of serfs, acted recklessly and killed people like hemp. Under the special environment of feudal territory, they committed all kinds of evils and made alliances with thugs in other manors. Over time, a kind of inhuman gang organization has been formed. Italians call it Mafia, and Chinese literally translates it as Mafia. By the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century, the mafia has become a huge lawless underworld organization. Its power not only replaced the manor owners, but also controlled the local authorities, calling itself the "honorary society". While expanding its power, the mafia has intervened in all walks of life, and in order to achieve the evil purpose of plunder and occupation, it has carried out activities such as robbery, burning, fighting, kidnapping and shooting. Gangs monopolized by mafia quickly appeared in all walks of life, such as pasture faction, land rent faction, bodyguard faction, mining faction, wharf faction, meat slaughter market, flour and fruit faction, etc. And formed a mafia family, headed by a murderous and brave executioner. Several families that monopolize the same industry form a gang, and each gang has its own strict rules and disciplines, using unique argot and slang. Each gang is well organized and hierarchical, with different rules and regulations, but they are similar, mainly including: members should help each other, be consistent with the outside world, and dare to blood out; Every member has the responsibility to protect and rescue members who fall into enemy hands. According to the wishes and requirements of the leaders, members can use kidnapping, extortion, robbery, burning and other violent means to achieve their goals, and have the right to distribute the property obtained from the action; Members have joined the organization for generations and are willing to sacrifice individuals and relatives in order to safeguard the interests of the "honor society". Members violate rules and regulations or disclose organizational secrets. It is usually handled by the law enforcement department in the gang. If the circumstances are serious, leaders and ordinary members have the right to put them to death.
With the prosperity of urban industry and commerce and the accumulation of wealth extorted by the mafia, the mafia monopolized the countryside, infiltrated the city at the same time, and frequently contacted the upper-level bureaucrats, planting henchmen in key government departments and looking for accomplices. Whenever elections are held, many mafia factions monopolize regional votes, manipulate the situation and recommend cronies to take power without resorting to bribery and violence. Although the mafia has no clear political program, it is often wooed and used by politicians and political groups with its strong economic strength and a large number of fugitives. For example, the fascist leader Mussolini seized power with the help of the Mafia, which made a large number of Mafia members mix into the political, military and judicial circles and join the fascist party. By the end of World War II, almost all parties had infiltrated into the mafia forces, and even the socialist party and the * * * production party were mixed with mafia elements. As for trade unions, peasant associations and powerful political factions, most of them have mafia elements and their accomplices, so that the mafia has always been able to do whatever it wants in previous wars and political changes.
Before the 1950s, it was the period of the old mafia, and since the 1970s, it was the period in which the new mafia dominated. The old mafia and the new mafia waged a long and bloody struggle for hegemonic interests. With strict education and training, young courage and extensive international contacts, the new mafia gradually monopolized the drug trafficking channels from the Middle East to France and even the United States. Using the huge amount of money from drug trafficking, they have set up "legitimate enterprises" such as automobile transportation companies, construction companies and fruit and food processing plants in many cities. Use this as a cover to carry out drug trafficking and smuggling on a larger scale. After the victory of World War II, the federal government of the United States carried out a large-scale cleansing of the mafia, and found that most of the backbone elements engaged in gambling and prostitution, smuggling and drug trafficking, kidnapping and assassination in the United States came from Sicily, Italy. But they are well organized, and the perpetrators are too old to leave no trace, and they come and go without a trace. It is difficult for the police to catch both stolen goods and stolen goods. Even if they caught some, they kept their mouths shut and had to be deported back to Italy. However, after repeated attacks and expulsions, drug smuggling in the United States has not been stopped, but has become more rampant. It turns out that after a long period of drilling, the mafia has established a very strict and pervasive drug processing, transportation and sales network. The Mediterranean cigarette smuggling channel, which has long been controlled by the mafia, has always been their main channel for transporting drugs. They have been injecting heroin into big tobacco and it has been unimpeded. Later, it was exposed that the Mafia competed with Marseille in France for smuggling channels and slaughtered the French, so it switched to other channels. They first buy raw materials or semi-finished products such as marijuana, poppy and morphine from Turkey, Syria and the "Golden Triangle" Middle East, and then smuggle them to the processing factory of Sicily Mafia Base Camp, where they are processed and refined into heroin, carefully disguised in foods such as oranges, wax fruits, candy and cakes, and then sold to France, Germany, Ireland, Canada and the United States through legal or smuggling channels. In the 1980s, the mafia transported drugs from Sicily, and two days later, they appeared in the new york market, and the transshipment channels were smooth.
For more than a century, the police in western countries have paid a heavy price for dealing with the mafia. Since new york police sent Joe Peter Rasta to Palermo, Sicily, to investigate the mafia shooting, policemen sent by various countries to investigate and hunt down the mafia have been shot repeatedly. In the early 1980s, Lieutenant General Dalachiesa, the deputy commander of Italian gendarmerie, and montana and Casala, the arresting captains of Palermo police station, were shot one after another, which shocked the Italian ruling and opposition parties again. To this end, the government sent more than a thousand gendarmes and policemen to Palermo, and carried out a large-scale clean-up of the mafia base camp. Finally, in February of 1986, michele greco, the mafia boss, was arrested and brought to justice. At the beginning of 1990s, with the heavy blow and the deepening of censorship of mafia in western countries, its inside story often appeared in newspapers. According to the analysis of the French Social Science Research Center, only the heroin transported by the mafia from the underground processing plant in Sicily earned 45 trillion lira, equivalent to more than 40 billion US dollars. According to the information provided by Italy, the mafia is active in France, Germany and the United States at present, with at least 12000 to 25,000 people, but their monopoly of drug market income is amazing, accounting for nearly 10% of the gross national product of these countries. The annual turnover of "Our Business" Mafia alone reached $654.38+02 billion.