The smugglers were armed the Bosnian Italian Mafia?
Etleboro Italy 13 05 2010
Criminal organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina have provided weapons to the powerful Italian mafia. This assertion by the investigators from the Dia of Rome and the Flying Squad of Caserta, in the framework of the control of fruit and vegetable market by Mafia organizations, which had at their disposal a veritable arsenal of weapons from the Bosnia war and from various countries of the Balkans. The Italian authorities speak of 'follow up' of goods seized in July 2006 when it was found an arsenal of Kalashnikovs, rocket launchers, grenades, TNT e pistole nell'abitazione e nel garage di un carabiniere in pensione: le armi provenivano appunto dalla Bosnia ed erano state trasportate con un furgone militare. L'operazione fu portata a termine mediante delle intercettazioni, che hanno poi consentito di seguire il traffico fino al dicembre dello stesso anno, e anche dopo. La polizia italiana ha arrestato, allora, decine di membri di diversi gruppi mafiosi che erano in possesso di armi da guerra e munizioni della Bosnia. Tra gli arrestati vi è un commerciante di armi, cittadino bosniaco, Elvir Marmarac (30), mentre è risultata coinvolta anche la cittadina italiana Maria Rita Paone, che ha sottoscritto contratti con i concessionari della Bosnia per conto del clan della "Ndrangeta" di San Luca.
And while the Italian authorities announced the continuation of investigations into arms trafficking in Bosnia, the Serb member of BiH Presidency, Nebojsa Radmanovic, announced that the next session of the Heads of State will insist on initiating an investigation to shed light on case and thus also eliminate the bad image of the country falling in the eyes of the EU. The Prosecutor Pietro Grasso said in this regard, the daily Dnevni Avaz that the Prosecutor of BiH, in the person of Milorad Barasin, gave a great help to the Italian authorities. "Now the investigation is taking place across the Adriatic Sea, where there are no sellers of weapons," said Grasso, recalling how the Balkans are weapons designed to match the "What Nostra and the Camorra. "He added that" the relationship between organized crime in the former Yugoslavia and the Italian Mafia has existed since the mid-nineties. "Two months ago we discovered the dangerous maneuvers and we have issued an arrest warrant against 40 people, mainly from Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, as well as from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Obviously, the mafia knows no national boundaries, and all are united in holding a criminal, "said the Italian prosecutor. According to him, many of whom are former intelligence officers of the former Yugoslavia, became a special direct contact for the Italian Mafia . "transporting cocaine from Colombia, were sold in northern Italy, and profit was thus shared with the Italian boss. These are the arms dealers have become reliable suppliers of the Calabrian Mafia 'Ndrangeta', and immediately after the war in Bosnia, the 'Camorra' and 'Cosa Nostra', "said Grasso.
Commenting on recent statements by Grasso, Michael Altamura , Director of the Italian, believes that the famous investigation into the smuggling of arms from Bosnia to Italy, is the result of investigations and interceptions made about two years ago and that's all. "The existence of the smuggling of weapons from Bosnia is what known, but the Italian authorities that they do not raise this argument, even to confirm their commitment to the issue of transnational mafia. Question among other things, and analyzed by the Centre launched its Italian with this name about two years ago, "says Altamirano. In his thinking, and so sees with skepticism the sensational news of the Bosnian arms sold in Europe. However draws attention to another arms trafficking, namely discovered along the border of Kosovo-Macedonian. "Today we are forming groups that are not organized under a structure of the mafia. The groups in Macedonia are patriarchal, does not combine with others, and the smuggling of weapons is not organized but it is left to a complex balance of local authorities, "says Altamirano. Remember that just last night there was a new armed conflict between a group of smugglers and police officers seized a quantity of weapons. Police sources say the armed group of men wearing black uniforms with symbols of the National Liberation Army, an offshoot of the Kosovo Liberation Army and both are marked by "KLA". The Macedonian Interior Ministry said the police action is taken based on information that was preparing for a transfer of weapons in Macedonia, while the special units have intercepted a truck black Mercedes Sprinter. "
"Given the dynamic-flash operation, it is clear that Macedonian forces have acted without fail, as in the intervention last week when they discovered four weapons caches well assault and ammunition. The Macedonians had knowledge of arms trafficking, and used it for political purposes, namely to criminalize the Albanian community - Altamura said - a week already seeing a strong controversy among the Albanians and the Macedonian government deputies, accused it of fomenting ethnic tensions with the stories of the army of national liberation. "According to Altamura, then, everyone knows that those weapons were not to make war, but to be sold abroad, and" the same story of the KLA is a scam to hide Somehow even the collusion of local authorities with these mechanisms. "" The famous claim by an e-mail from Switzerland, is not that the work of the usual unknown who take the blame free time now to do just this job, "warns Altamura. In his dry reply opens a strong doubt that the arms trade is even used in the region, but certainly not Kosovo or Macedonia, as would love to Serbia and Skopje to resolve their problems with the Albanian minority.
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