education in legality

One of the pride of the network of GIOSEF Italy is  certainly IL PAGURO OSTELLO (Website: http://www.ilpaguro.eu/) a center of hospitality and youth aggregation located in Casapesenna (Caserta) in an assett confiscated from organized crime. The property was granted to Agrorinasce Scarl, to make it a “Center for the promotion of social commitment and a

“The mafia is by no means invincible: it is a human thing and like all human things it has a beginning and will also have an end. We must rather realize that it is a terrible and very serious phenomenon; and that you can win by not expecting heroism from defenseless citizens, but by engaging

The mafia (Cosa Nostra) is a criminal organization, unitary and vertically structured, which is distinguished from any other by its characteristic of “territoriality”. It is divided into “families”, connected to each other by their common dependence on a common management, which tend to exercise the same sovereignty over the territory that the State should and

“Talk about the mafia. Talk about it on the radio, on television, in newspapers. But talk about it “. So Paolo Borsellino urged civil society not to surrender to the fight against the mafia. And also judge Antonino Caponnetto – head of the anti-mafia pool – at every opportunity urged young people to take responsibility,

The Casalesi citizens are the inhabitants of Casal Di Principe, a town in the province of Caserta, near Naples in the Campania region. A common mistake in the international  perception of the world is to associate the word “mafia” with the word “Italy”, as is done with pizza and mozzarella. By association of ideas we

To fully explain the meaning of this sentence we will borrow the words of judge Giovanni Falcone, contained in the book “Cose di cosa nostra”. “I believe that the Cosa Nostra is involved in all the important events of Sicilian life, starting with the Allied landing in Sicily during the Second World War and going

There isn’t only one mafia The mafia phenomenon can be considered uniform and lasting at least two centuries as for now. It is not an emergency, as has often been believed, but a structural fact that runs through the history of Italy and that manifests itself in different forms depending on the historical periods and

What is the true essence of the mafias?

To explain it better, we will borrow the words of Judge Paolo Borsellino to the students of a high school in Bassano del Grappa, on January 26th, 1989