Mafia aiming at young 'lifeblood' - DIA

(ANSA) - Rome, February 13 - Italy's mafia groups get the "lifeblood" they need to regenerate from ever younger people, the National Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate (DIA) said Wednesday.
    In its report on its activities in the first half of 2018, the DIA said that while the mafias are investing increasingly in "businessmen and professionals", on the other hand they are aiming to recruit "common workers" and people "waiting for jobs" in the youngest age bracket, between 18 and 40.
    In the first half of last year, the DIA added, it had issued 216 anti-mafia bans on firms.
    It added that "ferocious" teen mafia gangs were spreading, calling them the mafias' "reserve army".
    Italy's main mafias are 'Ndrangheta from Calabria, Cosa Nostra from Sicily and the Camorra from around Naples.
    There is a fourth, smaller mafia, the Sacra Corona Unita (United Sacred Crown) in Puglia.
    photo: National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Federico Cafiero de Raho