PUGLIAN MAFIA STRONGER THAN MOST SUSPECT

In Italy, the mafia, is called many different things.  Some may be familiar with N'drangheta, Camorra and other names you probably or likely may have never heard of.  They have the same rackets they have in the United States, but the major money maker for Mafia in Italy is drugs. Most importantly cocaine and heroin, which filters in from Afghanistan to Corsica, then to Montreal, Ottawa, and then to New York and all over the East Coast.


However if we peer into the Italian mafia, in Italy, everything is sort of different than  how the American Mafia is structured.  The Italian mafia is more clannish and spread out over provinces.  It's safe to say the powerhouse is N'drangheta.  They have the money, the drug trafficking routes and have a strangle hold on all of Italy, and other major places in Europe.

If you have been following any of the mess going on in Canada, this is essentially N'drangheta attempting to take over all of Canada along with the Neapolitan Camorra.  It's a mess, and both subgroups are hell bent on knocking the Rizzuto's into the goddamned ground, quite literally.


While  N'drangheta is the powerhouse, there are smaller subgroups that don't get much attention and Italy is now seeing Puglia root it's fearless head.  A few weeks ago there was a mob hit which was entirely gruesome.  So much so it shocked the investigators.

The group is known as the Foggia Crime Syndicate.  Rooted in southern Italy(Puglia) there has been 17 murders this year alone in the region.  It is believed that the Foggia Crime Syndicate is an off-shoot of the Neapolitan Camorra, expanding control from agriculture and drug trade routes extending back to Albania.

To compare the Foggia, they essentially are the Philadelphia faction of Italian mafia clans.  They always took a back seat to the Calabrian N'drangheta, and the Northern Camorra, and the Sicilian La Cosa Nostra.  Over the last 30 years alone the Foggia Crime Syndicate has been involved in over 300 murders with 80% of those remaining unsolved.

The mob hit a few weeks ago according to investigators was an attempted hit on a mob boss. Gunmen traveling in a car opened fire on another car, killing the boss and the driver.  The driver was actually the bosses brother-in-law.

The killers then chase down two witnesses, and executed them as well.  Investigators also believe this could have been in inner war, from the two subgroups within one group.  Two subgroups represent different areas.  One group resides in the Gargano peninsula and the other in in land.  The Foggia Syndicate is considered more violent, impenetrable, and more aggressive then it's sister groups.