b. Criminal Presence in Calabria13 Province of Reggio Calabria There are no significant changes in organized crime in the province of Reggio Calabria during the second half of 2022.

The 'ndrangheta confirms a unitary organization, governed by a summit body14, cd.

"provincia" or "crime", superordinated to those that are referred to as "mandaments" that insist on 3 geographical macro-areas (the center, the jonico and the Tyrrhenian one) and inside which operate the premises and the 'ndrines, order reiterated also by the definitive pronunciations issued to the outcome of the well-known process "Crimine"15.

The strong infiltration capacity of the 'ndrangheta has provoked not only the contamination of the legal economy, affecting the development and growth of the territory from time to time relegated to the last places of the indicators of economic growth, the quality of services and the quality of life in general, but also has developed a growing and marked propensity to the conditioning of the local institutions, priority aimed to acquire control of the resources connected with public contracts.

On the subject, the Prefect of Reggio Calabria, Massimo Mariani, stated that "there are no sectors, large or small that can generate wealth, which are subtracted from the interest of organized crime. The information Antimafia appears, in this sense, an ineludible tool.

A call must be made to the dissolution of the municipalities concerned and has affected many institutions of the province, which constitutes, for the reasons underlying it, a priority problem of the province Reggio Calabria, due to the injury of the democratic life of the territory.

It is necessary that the local political class and structures of local authorities be at the height of the challenge with the 'ndrangheta. Dissolving measures must be seen as a tool to guarantee institutions, in order to restore them and return any form of freedom to the population.

For the semester under review the dissolution of the municipal council of Cosoleto, the outcome of the operation Propaggine, conducted by the DIA, in whose scope is involved, among others, the mayor and the appointment of the commission of access for the Municipality of Scilla, originating from the results of the operation Nuova Linea, performed by the Carabinieri, where they are also involved

The extreme fragmentation of the Calabrese criminal reality involves the graphical representation of only the main components of the 'ndrangheta, whose positioning on the map is merely indicative.

The judgment of Court of Cassation of 18 maggio 2017 (n.

29850 year 2017 - II Sez.) with which, in the context of the Crimin process - ordinary proceedings, heavy convictions were introduced to 27 defendants, inflicting to 23 of them a total penalty of approximately 2 centuries of imprisonment and absolving the remaining 4.

The judgment has substantially confirmed that issued by the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria and fully demonstrates the validity of the accuser system of the DDA regimen according to which "'ndrangheta is one and one" and, therefore, all 'ndrines must always respond to the superordinated organism "Crimine".

Judgments passed in judgment: operations "Olimpia", "Olimpia 2" and "Olimpia 3", as well as those of the processes known as Spring, Harmony, Porto, Tyrrhenian, Stilaro, Testament, Broken Copper, Happy Island. Also the c.d. process.

Hundred years of history, celebrated in Palmi with subjects considered affiliated to the historical consorteries of Gioia Tauro of PIROMALLI and MOLÈ, within which, once again, the subdivision of organized crime 'ndranghetista in 3 macroaree: the area of Reggio Calabria city, the jonica and the Tyrrhenian area.

2nd semester 2. Organized criminality Calabria

officials and public administrators. Here it was of interest, for the organized crime of the place, the tourism sector and, on the basis of investigations, it was possible to adopt numerous interdictive measures towards enterprises that benefited from state concessions (lides)".

Always on the front of prevention, in order to counter any possible attempt of infiltration in the economic fabric of the province, it is evidenced that the Prefettura of Reggio Calabria - in the second half of 2022 - has issued well 23 interdittive and 41 pre-announced of interdittive to the burden of enterprises and societies in which confronts have emerged elements at risk of mafia conditioning.