Vital Waste Graphics 3

1980-90: the peak of waste-trafficking by the Italian Mafia

FRANCE

N

Medi terranean Sea

SWITZ.

NIKOS I [1985]

ALGERIA

Genova

Corsica

Livorno

Cagliari

SARDINIA

Venezia

TUNISIA

Tyrrhenian Sea

Trieste

AUST.

Roma

MARCO POLO [1993 ]

CAMPANIA Camora

Adr iat ic

SLOVENIA

KORALINE [1995]

Sea

CROATIA

Napoli

SICILY Cosa Nostra ; Stidda

Palermo

MIKIGAN [1986]

EDEN V

Salerno

CUNSKY

Messina Catania

ROSSO [1990]

Local mafia names

ANNI [1989]

HUNGARY

BOSNIA- HERZEGOVINA

Augusta

Bari

Reggio di Calabria

Gioia Tauro

PUGLIA Sacra Corona Unita

Taranto

ASO [1979]

ALESSAN- DRO I [1991]

CALABRIA ‘Ndrangheta

RIGEL [1987]

Lecce

MONTENEGRO

SERBIA

Ionian Sea

FOUR STAR I [1988]

ALBANIA

Kosovo

Medi terranean Sea

MACEDONIA

ROMANIA

GREECE

BULGARIA

Waste-related offences by province [ 2009 ]

25

75 150 335

Major merchandise port

Selected suspicious sinking vessel cases 1 [ year of wreckage if known ]

Napoli

1 - In 2010 Legambiente reported 40 to 100 ships full of nuclear and toxic waste wrecked in the Mediterranean (no May-day signal / no sign of the crew). In 2009 the prosecutor's office in Reggio di Calabria listed 32 wrecking operations definitely linked to organized crime.

Sources: Legambiente, Ecomafia report 2010; La Repubblica, La mappa degli affondamenti, 2009; Guy Dinmore, Timeline: A catalogue of suspicion, Financial Times, October 20 2009; ISEMAR, Les ports italiens en 2008, 2010.

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