PPT Flashcards
(30 cards)
What and when was the strategy of tension
1968-1984
Right-Wing extremists with the help of intelligence services carried out terrorist attacks in order to scare the public
What were the most signigicant bombings in the strategy of tension
1979 Bank in Milan
1974 anti-facscist demonstration
1974- train
1980- bologna train station
1984-train
When was the excalation of “excellent assasinations” and was was it a prelude to
late 70s to early 80s
prelude to the “second Mafia War” won by the Corneone Families
who was in power during the second mafia war on the mafia side
Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano
Who and when was the first politician killed by the mafia
1979 Michele Reina
When did the maxi trial start and then official start/end
what/when was the turning point to make it official
1982 investigations started by Falcone and Borselino
1984 Buscetta collaborates
1986-1987 Official maxi Trial
When were the appeals trials for the maxi trial
1989-1990
Did Falcone follow up on the appeals?
no, he moved to rome in 1991 to be the Ministry of Justice’s new director general of penal affairs
When and why is Salvo Lima killed
1992
an attack on the Christian democrat party and Andreotti. chaos and scandal caused them to lose votes and this happened right before the voting
When, where, and how is Falcone killed
1992 with a powerful bomb by the mafia on the Palermo highway
when, where, and how is Borsellino killed
1992 2 months after Falcone with a bomb next to his mother’s house.
this is significant because if the mafia would have waited just one more month, 41-bis could have been withdrawn, but they did not so then 41-bis became a permanent law
When does the clean hands investigation start
1993…1992-1994
who is the “boss of bosses”
Toto Riina
when is toto Riina arrested, why and how
1993
He was sold to the state, his requests were impossible and unreasonable
The other boss, Provenzano, sold him to the state as a part of the negotiations with the state (la trattatavia)
arrested by a special group of carabinieri, ROS (elite mafia investigation branch)
what happens in 1993
a series of more bombings, possible second strategy of tension
what does the clean hands investigation do to politics
it wipes out traditional parties like the Christian democrats
Who is Marcello Dell’Utri
Berlusconi’s right hand
ties to Sicilian mafia
sentenced to 9 years in prison in 1996
hired managone (in mafia) to protect Berlusconi
co-founded Forza Italia with Berlusconi
What is Forza Italia
- Founded by Dell’Utri and Berlisconni
- Mafia hoped this would secure them high staus and protection from the law
- Took power in 1994
When did Berlusconi first take power
1994
what was Berlusconi doing before politics
real estate. he bought a bunch of land from an orphaned girl
sports
law school
he was poor as a kid
What is Bribesville
Massive political corruption scandal
More than 5,000 politicians exposed Came from the “clean hands” investigation
Shattered the Christian Democrat Party paving the way for Forza Italia
What is a difference between book and movie in the “Pasquale” episode in Gomorrah?
Movie: Pasquale sees Scarlett Johansson on the TV wearing the dress he has been making while he is at the gas station rest stop. He is already a truck driver at this point. He quit his job because the factory boss found out he was helping the Chinese. The car with him and the Chinese got shot at to try and kill Pasquale by the Camorra but he survives. He quits in the hospital to the factory boss and says he’s been used since he was a kid and is done and he’s mad at his boss.
Book: He quits because he is mad at the system (the big brands in Milan) (34) after he sees Angelina Jolie wearing his dress. “Pasquale still remembers the day he’d gone t the port to pick u the fabric…He couldn’t tell anyone, couldn’t even whisper as he read the local newspaper the next morning. No one would believe that Angelina Jolie would go to the Academy Awards wearing an outfit made in Arzano by Pasquale…millions of dollars and 600 euros a month.” Pasquale quits because he is underpaid and pissed at the camorra and the system, not his factory direct boss
what was unique about the trial in excellent cadavers?
it did not focus on connection between the politicians and the mafia. they wanted to bring up only items with hard evidence to make sure convictions happened
Cosa Nostra, what is it and how is it structured
Sicilian mafia
made up of different families each named after a town in Palermo
“the commission” controls it.
- Above all families is a commission they called district leaders who were responsible for 3 families each. The commission controls Cosa Nostra
- Sanctions or limits the actions of families keeping them in line
- No one can kill anyone without asking their district leader who will run it by the commission
The head of the commission in 1980 was Michele Greco
