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.
Nowadays, many mafia organizations with national hatred are called "Mafia". For example, skinheads in Russia, the United States and Italy all have mafia organizations.
What we usually talk about most is the Italian-American mafia from Sicily. They are organized criminal groups, especially in North America. At its peak, there were 26 families in the United States, and almost every major city had one. Mafia Committee is composed of the main leaders of various families, among which new york is their mouthpiece, firmly controlling every move of all other mafia families. With the influx of immigrants into the Sicilian mafia in the United States, while setting foot on this land, it also brought here a set of Italian "effective" organizational system and action rules. The prohibition of alcohol passed by the US Congress 1920 has created unprecedented opportunities for the development of American underworld organizations. They took the opportunity to produce and sell bootleg liquor and accumulated a lot of money. Therefore, the Sicilian mafia has a closer relationship with the American mafia. Prohibition gave birth to organized crime in the United States and spread rapidly. In order to gain power, the emerging mafia-style criminal groups triggered a wage war. They threatened citizens, and newspaper headlines began to release bloody news. The huge black funeral procession they held for their families became the most spectacular funeral procession in history. But all this originated from that evil land thousands of miles away.
Since then, the golden rule of Mafia "quotOmerta" (honor) has been introduced. Sicilian does not believe in any form of government, which is caused by the background of being conquered by so many different people in history. The unwritten rules made them start to handle their own affairs outside the government. "Crime" is considered as a solution to personal justice and vendetta.
The literal interpretation of "omerta" is translated into the following sentence: those who use the law against their compatriots are either fools or cowards. People who can't protect themselves without the police are all. It is a coward's behavior to take others' infringement to court, even if you have been infringed yourself. It is despicable and cowardly for an injured person to reveal the name of the perpetrator. The correct behavior should be to openly challenge the opponent to seek revenge after the opponent recovers. What the injured person should say to the abuser is: If I live, I will kill you-if I die, I will forgive you.
The notorious underworld organizations in the world, such as American Mafia, Italian Mafia, Russian skinheads, Japanese Yamaguchi Group, Julian Gang in Taiwan Province Province, Fourteen K in China and Hongkong, etc. It is notorious internationally. The famous film The Godfather profoundly reveals the little-known shady situation of Mafia, the most famous underworld in the world, and shows people its personnel composition, power structure and great influence on a country and even the world. Although it is a film and television work, it is a classic that comes from reality and profoundly reflects the reality of the international underworld. As the famous Italian anti-mafia fighter falcone said, "Mafia is by no means a simple criminal organization ... In fact, besides profiteering, Mafia also tries to control the economy." Mafia has accumulated huge wealth through smuggling, drug trafficking, manipulating the construction industry and collecting protection fees. An authoritative sociological research data shows that the mafia's annual turnover accounts for at least 10% of Italy's gross national product, and heroin alone generates 40 billion dollars for the mafia every year. They also spend a lot of money on political investment, bribing officials, buying people's hearts or directly participating in political activities. In some countries, political scandals continue and are closely related to the underworld. The main topic of the United Nations conference held in Palermo, Italy, which was once the "Mafia Capital", was to further strengthen cooperation among countries and jointly fight transnational organized crime. Of the UN 180 Member States, 154 countries sent representatives to attend, among which 15 heads of state or government personally led delegations to attend.