Trento capital on legality, security and justice

When the Wall of Berlin collapsed, one boss recommended to the other: 'Go to East Germany and buy. Buy everything'. In times of new scenarios and difficult choices, investigators are already on the hunt for possible speculations by old and new criminal organisations, which have always been particularly adept at taking advantage of the upheavals of history. Such as new geopolitical horizons, the Dazi earthquake, market rallies or technological innovations: all potential prairies for mafia interests. A further challenge, such as citizens' demands for security - in the physical world, as in the virtual one - or for a more efficient justice service, a pillar of every rule of law. A perspective addressed in different declinations at the Economy Festival in Trento (22-25 May) by ministers, magistrates and police forces.

Are there spies of illicit interests in the boom of data centres or artificial intelligence? Will the smuggling of duty-paid goods and fakes, a lucrative business for the Camorra and the Chinese Mafia, grow? And what role can clan liquidity play in the financial resurgence? On the relations between mafias and the cyber world has often warned Giovanni Melillo, national anti-mafia and anti-terrorism prosecutor, in Trento the day after the commemorations in Palermo of the 1992 massacres of Capaci and via D'Amelio, in which Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and then, on 19 July, Paolo Borsellino were killed, together with their escorts. Falcone himself warned of the extraordinary ability of clans to adapt to changes in real time. He who first began to follow the flow of money, to find the bosses. An aspect that would return in the dialogue with Melillo, at the head of that National Prosecutor's Office conceived by Falcone himself.

Half a million euros worth of counterfeit goods were seized in 2023-2024 by the police force: are the announced duties causing an increase? And is the 'hanger war' behind the recent murders of two Chinese men in Rome?

Old criminal rules and new technologies will be discussed by the heads of the Carabinieri, Salvatore Luongo, and the Police, Vittorio Pisani; an aspect that will be taken up by the deputy director of the Cybersecurity Agency, Nunzia Ciardi;

But against increasingly technologically equipped mafias, adequate regulations and up-to-date skills are needed: a solicitation for the Ministers of Justice Carlo Nordio and of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi, called - among other things - to confront Europe on the Pnrr and the complex immigration dossier.