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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Mob Deep: Inside the modern day mafia
Description: The mafia conjures up images of the Sopranos rather than hardened criminals for many of us. So what is it really – and how has it changed? With the arrest of mobster Matteo Messina Denaro putting mafia violence back in the spotlight, Felia Allum, author of Camorristi, Politicians, and Businessmen: The Transformation of Organized Crime in Post-war Naples, joins Alex Andreou to discuss the changing face of criminal organisations.
“In Italy, the mafia is like a virus that wracks the body.”
“The mafia was tied to the creation of the Italian state.”
“The mafia want political leverage.”
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