Group of Italian women fight the local mafia as Puglia prepares to host G7 summit, AP explains

(11 Jun 2024)
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Alberobello, Italy - 22 May 2024
1. Tourists walking through the town of Alberobello, known for its roundhouse with cone-shaped roofs
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Trisha Thomas, The Associated Press;
“In just a few days, the leaders of the G7 nations will be coming here to Puglia in the heel of Italy's boot. Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni would be very happy to show off this beautiful region with its groves of olive trees, 'trulli' cone-roofed houses and spectacular beaches.”

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Borgo Egnazia, Italy - 22 May 2024
3. Olive grove in Borgo Egnazia where G7 will be held
4. Olive tree

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Porto Selvaggio Natural Park, Italy - 21 May 2024
5. Tree along coastline
6. Coastline with sea and forest

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Alberobello, Italy - 22 May 2024
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Trisha Thomas, The Associated Press:
“U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to be in here. French President Emmanuel Macron is coming along with all the other leaders. They are expected to discuss major geopolitical issues including the war in Ukraine and the ongoing war in Gaza. What is not expected to be on their agenda is a discussion about the locally grown mafia, the Sacra Corona Unita, the Sacra Corona Unita is Italy's fourth mafia. Much less well known than Italy's Cosa Nostra, the ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Naples area Camorra.”

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Mesagne, Italy - 20 May 2024
8. Sign to entrance to town where Sacro Corona Unita was born in 1981, started in prison by a mafioso named Pino Rogoli
9. People seated in centre of town
10. People seated in front of church

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Alberobello, Italy - 22 May 2024
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Trisha Thomas, The Associated Press:
“The Sacra Corona Unita is made up of about 30 clans with roughly 3,000 members, almost exclusively men. Their main business is drug trafficking and they recycle the profits through legitimate businesses like tourism. In recent years a wide variety of women from judges to prosecutors to journalists and educators have been the ones who are really challenging the power of the Sacra Corona Unita.”

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Cutrofiano, Italy - 21 May 2024
12. Carla Durante, Head of Anti Mafia force (DIA), Lecce walking into see the Lazzari Castle, confiscated from the Mafia
13. Anti-Mafia team entering confiscated castle

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Lecce, Italy - 22 May 2024
14. Prosecutor Carmen Ruggiero whose life was threatened by a jailed mafioso who said he wanted to slit her throat enters prison courtroom escorted by a three-man escort
15. Prosecutor Carmen Ruggiero seated
16. Bodyguard for Carmen Ruggiero

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Alberobello, Italy - 22 May 2024
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Trisha Thomas, The Associated Press:
“Some of them at enormous personal risk. They have received threats, death threats from the Sacra Corona Unita requiring them to have 24-hour-a-day police escorts.”

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Lecce, Italy - 20 May 2024
18. AP photo by Alessandra Tarantino of Judge Francesca Mariano surrounded by police escort. She was given the escort after receiving death threats and finding a bloody goat head on her doorstep after she issued 22 arrest warrants for members of a SCU mafia
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19. Judge Mariano at Apollo Theatre in Lecce with bodyguards standing nearby

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Lecce, Italy - 22 May 2024
20. Priest walking in historic centre of Lecce
21. People seated at outdoor café in Lecce

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Borgo Egnazia, Italy - 22 May 2024
22. Drone shot of olive grove ++MUTE++
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