Catania prosecutor Carmelo Zuccaro
told the parliamentary anti-mafia commission Tuesday that "there
is a mass of money destined for migrant reception that attracts
the interests of mafia organisations and I say that on the basis
of some investigative evidence".
He added that it was "wrong to think the mafia operates
everywhere, because that way we risk increasing its aura of
omnipotence".
Zuccaro sparked a row last month by saying he had heard that
migrant traffickers were funding some NGOs that rescue migrants
to destabilise the Italian economy, although he had no hard
evidence of this.
Zuccaro added in his testimony to the commission: "Last
Saturday a ship with 498 migrants arrived in Catania and if
there had been our police units on the NGO ship that saved them
we would already have caught the traffickers and we would have
them in our jails, the target of the probes are the traffickers
not the NGOs".
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