BERLIN STRAGE, NECESSARY THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AREA ANTI-TERRORISM

Napoli | 20 December 2016
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: OMCOM – Osservatorio Mediterraneo sulle Mafie (EN)

Berlin strage. Another  strage. Another european capital. Another terrorist initiative. Berlin has once again hit life in its most beautiful and significant moments, which characterize the identity of a country. July 14 in Nice, now Berlin. Yes, that little square is world famous for the Christmas market. I have a living memory of years ago when I was there, during a visit to Berlin of Italian restaurateurs who rebelled against the lace imposed by mafiosi.
Today as yesterday familes crowd out stand. Gifts, crib characters, handicraft items! Children, lovers, young people full of energy, old sages, tourists around the world. Many Italians who live and study in the German capital. Classic life! An evening in Berlin!
The Truck bursts and sweeps away everything. It does not restrain, kills, hurt, throws in the sorrow and pain a whole country, the world, Europe. Already Europe! I'm not tired of repeating it. The only national road to anti-terrorism security is a must but not enough. It was thought that only France had its unprepared and overcome system. Maybe, but Germany? In essence, national security is not enough in preventing Daesh's terrorist attacks.
More than ever, it is necessary to move to the construction of a true and effective common European space against terrorism and anti-mafia .... It's a tough road to take. National stories and interests stand in every way. But so is a dripping that endangers all the "provincial" European capitals. We Italians this time pushing on the right side. We are the best organized country, but we also know that quality leap can only be done at European level with an intelligence, a specialized police and an equally common prosecutor. Of course Europe does not have the capacity to push countries to make choices in that direction. It is a declining Europe, both inside and outside. But in this troubled historic moment, the construction of the United States of Europe must be decided.
In Turkey, the Russian ambassador is killed. In the Middle East, the war rages. In Aleppo, the images that come to us say long about the tragedy that is being consumed. There is a need, there is space, there is the possibility to think and realize the United States of Europe. First we proceed is better for all of us and for the same humanity.

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XXII° NATIONAL ANTIMAFIA SUMMIT

Firenze (Bagno A Ripoli) | 16 December 2016
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: OMCOM – Osservatorio Mediterraneo sulle Mafie (EN)

The "XXII ° National Antimafia Summit" was held in Florence organized by the Fondazione Caponetto in collaboration with the Fondazione Mediterraneo, the OMCOM, the "Federazione Anna LINDH Italia-Onlus" and the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli.
This year's theme is "NO TO MAFIA AND TERRORISM: WITH THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE A CHANGE OF STRATEGY IN CONTRAST”. Among the interventions those of Senators Giuseppe Lumia and Mario Giarusso, the magistrates Giuseppe Lombardo, Catello Maresca, the attorney Pietro Suchan, the Colonel Giorgio Giombetti, the journalists Paolo Borrometi, Martin De Sá Pinto and others. The president of the Fondazione Caponetto Salvatore Calleri stressed the topicality of the summit wanted by Antonino Caponetto precisely to "keep the guard high" against the mafias, organised crime and terrorism that develops with extreme speed Adapting to the changing times.
The president of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso drew attention to the role of Europe and the non-Constitution of the "United States of Europe", remembering the activites of Fondazione Mediterraneo  this issue since 1994.
The work was concluded by the President of the Senate Pietro Grasso who launched an appeal for the anti-mafia movements no to die by making the Fondazione Caponetto for its commitment and to become increasingly as a reference point against Mafias, especially through the OMCOM- Osservatorio Mediterraneo sulla Criminalità Organizzata e la Mafia formed jointly with the Fondazione Mediterraneo. " United Europe against joint crime "is one of the slogans of the summit.

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FOR A NEW VISION OF SECURITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

Siracusa | 03 June 2016
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: OMCOM – Osservatorio Mediterraneo sulle Mafie (EN)

Great success for the initiative of OMCOM - Mediterranean Observatory on Organized Crime and Mafia - held at the Chamber of Commerce of Syracuse to fight organized crime and mafias and for security in the Mediterranean.
The event was introduced by the lawyer Elena Giampapa, organizer and Omcom contact person, who explained the need to raise public awareness of safety issues in the Mediterranean not only at European level, but also at national and above all at local level, involving competent representatives on various aspects related to the topic.
The greetings of Mons. Salvatore Pappalardo Archbishop of Syracuse were followed by the speeches of the speakers. Senator Giuseppe Lumia and On. Sonia Alfano through a careful analysis have pointed out the difficulties of the European Union and the problems concerning the situation in the Mediterranean. The President of the Red Cross highlighted the work carried out by the volunteers, while Dr. Giuseppe Vitale, of the Caponnetto Foundation, focused on how the area is the crossroads of economic, energy and commercial interests.
Of great interest also the interventions of the Police Forces and the Carabinieri Corps involved in front line in the control of the territory and in the management of migratory flows. The work was coordinated and concluded by Dr. Salvatore Calleri, President of the Caponnetto Foundation, who stressed the need to change the economy and focus on the interest of the population, keeping the founding values of the European Union high.
Appreciation for the work carried out by the Caponnetto Foundation and the Fondazione Mediterraneo, creators and founders of OMCOM.

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DAY OF LEGALITY

Napoli | 23 May 2016
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: OMCOM – Osservatorio Mediterraneo sulle Mafie (EN)

On May 23rd 2016, Day of Legality, OMCOM - Mediterranean Observatory on Organized Crime and the Mafia, created by the Fondazione Mediterraneo and Fondazione Caponnetto - commemorates the XXIVth Anniversary of the Capaci massacre (May 23rd 1992) in which Judge Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo and their escort agents died.
On the occasion of this day, OMCOM intends to remember all the victims of the mafia who have sacrificed their lives in order to build a better society, with justice and legality.
The school - underlines President Capasso - has a central task in the fight against crime and mafias, fighting fear and working in function of a concrete education to respect social rules and laws. In this regard, schools of every order and level are invited to sensitize students so that there is not only remembrance, commemoration for their own sake, but that it is a stimulus for reflection on what has happened and the reasons that have led to its tragedy. Every school educational community becomes a sentry of legality: the suburbs through school institutions can become a bulwark of responsible citizenship. It is important that the memory be followed by meetings, seminars and training interventions that can help the new generations to develop a critical awareness in interpreting reality and guide them in their choices, starting from the simple contexts of everyday life, towards legality, because "everyone can play their part, for large or small alike.
Rai Scuola remembers with a special one those tragic days on the occasion of the Legality Day 2016.

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