d. Analysis of the criminal phenomenon of Apulian and Lutheran mafias The Apulian Mafia scenario consists of a plurality of criminal organizations, mostly autonomous, characterized by a marked dynamism resulting from the swinging relationships of conflict and internal alliances.

The Apulian criminal context is traditionally distinguished in three mafia cases: Camorra Barese, mafie foggiane and sacred unified crown19, which, however, when necessary, realize each other, in a synergistic way, forms of strategic collaboration functional to the satisfaction of remuneration and common illicit interests.

In a constantly evolving mafia scenario, strongly characterized by continuous internal fibrillations or between opposing criminal groups, the Bare Camorra is characterized by a plurality of clans that, as in the Napoleonic Camorristic model, does not provide top designations with coordination functions but horizontal relations.

This allows the same to operate in complete autonomy although, where there are divergent interests, violent conflicts are witnessed to affirm the supremacy of a certain sodalicy.

Also in the semester of reference, the traffic of narcotics is confirmed the main interest of the consorteries of the town of Bari that in many cases, in the perspective of control of the territory, manage directly up to the activities of spaccio.

This aspect is also confirmed in the data contained in the Reports on the Administration of Justice presented on the occasion of the inauguration of the Jubilee Year 2023, at the Courts of Appeal of Bari and Lecce.

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Half-yearly report TO PARLIAMENT In the criminal dynamics of Baresi there are no prevarication episodes through the appeal to the intimidation and violence to which the clans resort to express their power of subjection on the territory20.

The organized crime of the capital, also dedicated to smuggling, extortion, usury and illicit bets, through increasingly complex forms of money laundering proves to be able to enter the healthy economic fabric, also using professional compliants and sometimes infiltrating local institutional systems.

The Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani (BAT) is quickly configured as a strategic crossroads between the neighboring provinces both on the economic-productive and commercial plane, and in the criminal sphere, representing a projection territory of the main bare and foggiane consorteries.

In international drug trafficking, the criminal organizations of the BAT province have been favoured by the consolidated relations with Albanian sodalizi established along the Adriatic route that have allowed them to increase their criminal profile and establish stable alliances with the Garganica and Cerignolan mafias.

Consistently with what happens in other areas of Region, the autochthonous mafia is characterized by being less closed and summit, fragmented in a multiplicity of sodalizi that coexist, where possible, with the mafia organizations of the neighboring territories, resorting to the use of violence whenever it is necessary to affirm its supremacy.

The organized crime foggiana continues to be a phenomenon historically rooted in the territory in a heterogeneous way, affecting different territorial quadrants (Foggia and its hinterland, macroarea of the Gargano, high and low tables).

The so-called fourth mafia, whose unitary definition conceals a plurality of distinct mafia identity (the phantasian society, the garganic mafia, the Mafia of the Upper Tavoliere and the Malavita cerignolana) has been able, over time, to create a real operational model in which to convey criminal interests and strategies without necessarily sharing a common summit structure.

It is a "hybrid" mafia, genetically derived from the Camorra and the 'ndrangheta, constituted by criminal manifestations whose ephecy and pervasiveness is in function of the social, political-administrative, economic and cultural fabric of the specific reference territory21.

The most structured clans contain in their orbit minor groups, sometimes composed of few elements, characterized by subjective profiles of marked dangerousness, which highlight in their actions (sometimes bound by the main operational strategies of the sodalizi) the mafioso canons of violence and prevarication.

Symptoms in this sense are the seizure of numerous weapons carried out in Foggia and San Severo in the semester under review, which has seen protagonists also young criminals22.

In addition, the central role played by the Foggiane mafie in the field of drug trafficking (also thanks to extraregional links with Campania and Calabrian crime, as well as with Albanian nationalities) which also promotes projections outside the region, especially

Not to be underestimated, however, are also episodes of threat to local administrators or traders, even in this semester registered in the territory of Bari.

It is in this sense that the many dissolutions of local authorities have to be read in recent years (Orta Nova, Monte Sant'Angelo, Mattinata, Cerignola, Manfredonia and Foggia).

Of which the spouses are employed to entrust them with operational tasks (protection of drugs, weapons, placement of explosive devices, fictitious heading of illicit goods, etc.).

2. Matrici Mafiose in Molise (litoranea and hinterland of Campobasso) and in Abruzzo. Last but not least, it should be noted that the area of the Alto Tavoliere acts as a crossroads between the different mafia phenomena of the province such as the foggiana society and the criminal groups of the Garganic promontory.

The Sacra Corona Unita has its roots in the Salento peninsula, between the provinces of Lecce, Brindisi and Taranto.

The name itself recalls aspects and connotations typical of the mafia identity: from the affiliation rites with calls direct to religious symbols up to the characters of internal cohesion and bond between the affiliates, from which the criminal force of the association descends.

Mafia groups continue to express a criminal capacity in the name and on behalf of Sacra Corona Unita leaders who, as confirmed also by investigative evidence, dictate the rules for the maintenance of the mafia order, using relatives and lieutenants for the management of illicit activities.

The current operation of the organization is based on consolidated methods of control of the territory and of supply of resources, mainly through the narcotics market and the persistent, even if submerged, phenomenon of extortion.

As far as the Basilicata Region is concerned, it is characterized by a territory that has 2 macro-areas: the powerful hinterland, characterized by less developed urban realities demographically and economically and the maternal coastal area, on the border with Puglia and Calabria, with a strong agricultural and tourist vocation.

The evolution of the mafia phenomenon rests differently between the provinces of Potenza and Matera.

The crime of the powerful hinterland, however subject to an early influence of the Camorra bell, has obtained over time the criminal recognition of the 'ndrangheta, operating in the field of drugs, extortion, turnips and the usury.

The coastal area of the Province of Matera has undergone over time the criminal influence of the Tarantine groups that, along the ion band, formed a criminal axis with autochthonous groups and Calabrian clans.

The criminal interests prevailing in this area are those of the traffic of narcotics, also with the participation of Albanian sodalizi, extortion and the money laundering especially in the commercial activities of the tourist-hotel sector.