Nigerian Mafia, voodoo rites and prostitution: in a book the investigation by the anti-trafficking team

Two mafias divide turin. I'm not Cosa Nostra nor the camorra, we are not talking about ‘Ndrangheta and not even the Foggia clans. No, under the Mole there are two Nigerian mafias that share the drug and drug market prostitution. The journalist tells the story Sergio Nazzaro in the book Nigerian Mafia, the first anti-trafficking team investigation.

After Castel Volturno, reportage on the African mafia, edited by Einaudi, Nazzaro returns to take care of the mysterious black octopus he gives Benin City has now taken root in Italy, the country inventor of the same concept of mafia. From Campania to Piedmont, the journalist continues his work on Nigerian criminal organizations. For Citta Nuova it tells what is a key investigation in the history of fight against the Nigerian mafia in Italy.

At the end of 2012, a Nigerian girl reported two of her countrymen. It seems like a complaint like so many others, only that this ends up on the table of by the Sat, the local police anti-trafficking squad in Turin. Four years of investigations ending with forty-three arrests. For the investigators, they are all members of two organizations, Maphite and Eye, two of the native Nigeria mafias that over the years have specialized in the exploitation of prostitution and drug trafficking. Nazzaro's book says that the one discovered by the Turin anti-trafficking squad is “one great international organization, with contours comparable to our mafias, which threatens, exploits and kills ".

On the other hand, 36 members of the Nigerian Mafia have been convicted for the first time in Turin of mafia associations: it is 2010 and members of the clans Black Ax is Eiye they are sentenced to sentences of 4 to 14 years in prison. In the Piedmontese capital, in fact, the Eiye and the Black Ax had entered a collision course already in 2003. A war broke out, fought in the streets of the city with knives, machetes and axes, which wounded wounded and attracted the attention of investigators . It seemed an isolated case, a war between gangs that only stopped at the outskirts of Turin: but now the mafia made in Nigeria has come to take root even in the rest of the country. In Campania, but as ilfattoquotidiano.it has also told in Palermo, the same city that saw the birth of Piovra in spite of itself.

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