20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CAPONNETTO FOUNDATION

Firenze | 17 June 2023
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: OMCOM – Osservatorio Mediterraneo sulle Mafie (EN)

The United States of the World and the Fondazione Mediterraneo collaborated and participated in the Anti-Mafia Summit on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the "Fondazione Antonino Caponnetto", a founding member of the United States of the World.
The Caponnetto Foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary with an event, held on Saturday 17 June at the Biblioteca delle Oblate in Florence, Sala Sibilla Aleramo, entitled "Cosa cambia nel 2023 nella lotta alla mafia. Commitments and perspectives. Dedicated to Nazzareno Bisogni'. A summit, open to the public, was attended by numerous representatives of the anti-mafia movement.
"An important anniversary for the Caponnetto Foundation," said Deputy Mayor Alessia Bettini, "which for 20 years has been doing great work not only in analysing data, but also in raising awareness among young people to promote the culture of legality.
"We are 30 years on from the Georgofili massacre, said the Secretary-General of the United States of the World Michele Capasso, "and we must always remember that the mafias are still there: it is necessary to continue to be vigilant and to transmit the culture of respect for the rules, without ever being indifferent. It is very nice that the public initiative of the Caponnetto Foundation is taking place at the Oblate library, a place of culture, social presidium and democratic and critical citizenship. Because when there is knowledge there is always attention, vigilance and awareness".
"After 20 years of the Foundation's foundation, we have decided to return to Florence with our usual anti-mafia summit. Today,' stressed Caponnetto Foundation president Salvatore Calleri, 'it is more important than ever to understand the mafia and the 2.0 perspectives of the fight against the mafia in our country, at a time when the PNRR funds are arriving, of which 2 billion in the Florentine metropolitan area, and when the mafia, let us not forget, invoices 18 billion in Tuscany, 230 billion in Italy and has a treasure trove of three thousand billion in Ivan-less banks around the world".
"The fight against the mafia," added former anti-mafia investigative directorate Renato Scalia, "must be constant and daily. Certain hesitations cannot be tolerated, such as widening the mesh of public tenders, trying to limit controls, further weakening telephone tapping, and other measures that make the fight against mafia-type crime less effective".
"Thirty years after the Via dei Georgofili massacre in a historical period in which the mafia has changed and at the same time become modern and tribal, on the 20th anniversary of the birth of the Caponnetto Foundation," added the president of the Equal Opportunities, Peace, Human Rights, International Relations and Immigration Commission, Donata Bianchi, "the Foundation has decided to hold an extraordinary anti-mafia summit, the 32nd, with the prospective title: 'What changes in 2023 in the fight against the mafia. Commitments and perspectives'. Historically, the summit was created to bring together anti-Mafia minds and to establish the best strategies to combat the mafia'.
"An important 20-year anniversary, continued the President of the Commission for Policies for the Promotion of Legality and Urban Sustainability Alessandra Innocenti, 'for the role played by the Caponetto association, which bears the name of a magistrate we will never forget for his strength and his desire to defeat Cosa Nostra with his valuable investigations.
It is an association that seeks to keep a high profile on a phenomenon that unfortunately has not been defeated, but rather has changed its type of action and is no longer only relegated to certain Italian regions, but is also present in our region. The association, with its reports that help to understand the phenomenon of organised crime and its projects dedicated to schools, keeps attention high, which we must never lower, in order to strongly guarantee legality. It was a good choice to hold the summit at the Oblate Library, where two rooms were recently named after Dario Capolicchio and Giovanna Maggiani Chelli, mafia victims. In conclusion, said Alessandra Innocenti, have a good life Caponnetto Foundation".

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OMCOM AWARD 2021

Florence | 05 September 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: OMCOM – Osservatorio Mediterraneo sulle Mafie (EN)

The awards ceremony took place on 5 September at 11:00, during an event in Florence, in the presence of Giuseppe Antoci and Salvatore Calleri, in the garden named after “Nonno Nino” as everyone likes to remember.
The Omcom winners are Alessio Ribaudo, Cecilia Sandroni and Gianni Scarpace for information, Walter Ganapini for the environment and Gerardo Mastrodomenico for legality.
This year one of the winners was Cecilia Sandroni (in connection from Venice to the Film Festival), the only woman awarded today, for her commitment in denouncing environmental crime active in the Val di Cornia and Tuscany area. She is an international journalist of culture and human rights, founder of the ItaliensPR international platform and member of the Foreign Press of Rome.
September 5 is a significant date as it celebrates the 101st anniversary of the birth of the magistrate Antonino Caponnetto, symbol of the anti-mafia. With this recognition we intend to honor the incisive and daily work in defense of information.

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NORTH AFRICAN INTELLIGENCE JIHADISTA II ° Part - "The traces of DNA"

Florence | 21 June 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: OMCOM – Osservatorio Mediterraneo sulle Mafie (EN)

"The threat reported in previous OMCOM Reports as" North African Jihadist Intelligence ", a name we put forward to facilitate the targeted identification of a reality devoid of acronyms, fluid, hybrid, finds fragments of" DNA "in previous acronyms particularly active in the past" : thus begins the analysis of Salvatore Calleri - president of the Caponnetto Foundation and of the Mediterranean Observatory on organized crime and mafias.

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF ANTONINO CAPONNETTO, MAN AND JUDGE AGAINST THE MAFIE

Naples - Florence | 05 September 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: OMCOM – Osservatorio Mediterraneo sulle Mafie (EN)

The celebrations for the centenary of the birth of Nino Caponnetto, Judge creator of his historic Pool or "Nonno Nino" for the thousands and thousands of children, took place in Florence and Naples (OMCOM headquarters and the Museum of Peace - MAMT) met, until the last moment of his life, in the schools of all our forgetful Italy.
"He loved Florence, he was loved by it and still is today. He loved Palermo, he was loved but not enough. He chose to be a judge. Without saying anything to his wife, he replaced Rocco Chinnici killed with the Lebanese method by Cosa Nostra. He obtained the first sentence of the Constitutional Court as Magistrate in his first position. He fought in Africa and came back full of nightmares and lined up for peace. He spoke to young people from all over Italy. He created the first anti-mafia pool with four musketeers: Falcone, Borsellino, Guarnotta, Di Lello. He loved his wife Betta for 61 years until her death. He defended the Constitution. He was the first, in the history of our country, to have over 400 mafia bosses sentenced definitively. He wept for the death of his 'children' Falcone and Borsellino. He said 'it's all over', immediately regretting it ".

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