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 | | As to these provinces, at present “cosa nostra” apparently focused its attention on the systematic exploitation of the local economy through extortions that, together with drug trafficking, represent the major self-financing form, waiting for more considerable resources that in the next future shall be represented by public contracts. |
 | | The recent crimes committed in the Calabrian provinces, also in those that are traditionally considered as less interested by this phenomenon, such as Catanzaro and Cosenza, show a high vitality of the organisation, that does not appear to be weakening, notwithstanding a strong law enforcement counteraction. |
 | | In the province of Catanzaro, with the exception of the Lamezia area, there are no significant new elements concerning the internal balances of the mafia families, that currently appear to be strongly interested in the works for the building of the third lane of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway. |
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