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.
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