By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
The underground world is a place where the rules are supposed to be infringement. Claudio Carbonaro knows it too well. As a boss of the Sicily the Stidda, the fifth Italian mafia group, he waged a violent war against Toto Riina's Cosa Nostrakilling dozens. Once captured, he has become a witness to the government. Released from prison, he rejected the book of rules once again and returned to his hometown where he became a boss again as if nothing had happened.
Claudio Carbonaro was born in 1963 in Vittoria, a city in the province of Ragusa, Sicily. “I grew up as a child in the mafia world,” Carbonaro told the French documentary series Exclusive survey. “My whole life, I was a mafioso. When you are a paccadre as a child or as we say, a butcher, then Cosa Nostra You accept you as a man of honor. This is how it happened for me. I have committed many murders for them. »»
Stidda and war with Cosa Nostra
But dissatisfaction was prepared among many members and associates of Cosa Nostra. While a flame has been transformed into more and more Mafiosi fire was unable to operate as part of Cosa Nostra. They founded a rival group called the Stidda, the star.
As Thom L. Jones wrote on this website: “The organization grew up in the 1980s, its members, unhappy or perhaps, ambitious, of the mafiosi who wanted more, quickly. Some were banished from their criminal families for various reasons.”
Carbonaro was one of them. As he explained to Exclusive survey: “Toto Riina was powerful. He was convinced that no other family would dare to attack him. We killed some of his Capos and it started a war. It ended a lot of lives. At least 400.”
Of these 400, many died in the hands or orders of Carbonaro. “The bombings, no. But other killings, yes. I killed a lot of people, ”he says. “Just in Ragusa only at least 70 people.”
But, he adds, before each murder, he made the sign of the cross.
That he also does this when he proposed to put money in the hands of children, to give them firearms and to point targets, was not discussed in the documentary. According to Thom L. JonesCarbonaro suggested the idea at a group meeting of the bosses of Stiddari de Gela, Niscemi, Riesi, Porto Empedocle, Mazzarino, Butera and Palma Di Montechario, saying to the group “that in this war, something must be different.”
The war between the Stidda and Cosa Nostra ended in the early 1990s. Riina would be captured by the police and would spend the rest of his life in prison. Carbonaro was also caught up and decided that he would not share the same fate.
Carbonaro decided to become a pentitoA witness to the government, and testifies to his life as a crime and the crimes committed by others in the Sicilian underground world.
After twenty years in prison, he was released in 2013.
The hooks become… crowned as a boss?
What is an old rat that has become mafioso is supposed to do then? Except for Hide. Sicily is a small place. And the mafia is everywhere. Even in continental Italy, the group has eyes and ears everywhere. Hiding is extremely difficult.
And to hide is what the mafia hooks do, right? Well, apparently things have become a little troubled there. After a life of breaking the rules, the mafiosi even see omerta in a more practical sense. While more and more gangsters transform proof of the state, there have been more incidents with these gangsters returning to their original soil. Once, they not only stay in place and stay alive, but some of them even return to their old crime life. Like Carbonaro, allegedly.
Carbonaro: “When I got out of prison, a friend called and asked me what I did in life? He asked me if I wanted to recycle old plastic?”
Well, not exactly, the journalist Paolo Borrometi says Exclusive survey. He said that Carbonaro “immediately ordered his Mafia clan to meet at his prison release”.
Where the stories of the two men corroborate is that the friends or the Carbonaro clan worked in the recycling of plastic.
There is a lot of money in there. For the production of fruits and vegetables, Sicily offers countless plots of land filled with rows on rows of greenhouses filled with plants. The rules of the European Union stipulate that the plastic used for these greenhouses is replaced every six months.
Old plastic must then be recycled. To accommodate companies in these countries, the European Union gives millions of subsidies so that they can recycle plastic.
The mafia took note and saw a gold opportunity.
“The new mafia is much smarter than the old mafia”
Carbonaro, allegedly, also did. As he said Exclusive survey: “In the countryside, many guys act as if they were farmers, but they are really large -scale mafiosi. And also dangerous. They work in the countryside and act as if they were families, but you have to pay attention to your feet.”
He continues: “They are creative now. Without any shot. We were then much more lowered. In this situation, we would have shot in all directions. The new mafia is much smarter than the old mafia. They are worse than the old mafia.”
On October 24, 2019, the police found Carbonaro applying these new Mafia tactics, allegedly. They arrested him and fourteen others in Ragusa accusing them of extortion, with illegal weapons, serious bodily lesions and waste traffic.
Investigators claim that Carbonaro and its Mafia clan have used several companies to recycle used plastic sheets contaminated by fertilizers and pesticides. The toxic plastic was shipped to China where a part was used to make shoes. These shoes with the contaminated plastic were then returned to Italy.
Carbonaro says he is innocent. “I worked there,” he said. “I was intermediary. I did not threaten anyone. It has been going on for 20 years! How can I be the sole responsible? “
Whether guilty or not, you have to reveal in a few months.
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