Nineteen precautionary measures and dozens of suspects and searches of people under investigation for various offenses of criminal conspiracy, aggravated by the mafia method, extortion, injuries and other serious crimes. This is the balance, for the moment, of operations by the Central Operations Service of the Central Anti Crime Directorate of the State Police, the Mobile Squad and the Guardia di Finanza of Milan, coordinated by the Antimafia District Directorate of the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office. Almost all of the people involved can be traced back to the Inter and Milan curves, as well as the crimes are linked to the soccer context. "What has emerged is that between the two fans there was an agreement of non-belligerence: many of the problems were solved through understandings," Milan prosecutor Marcello Viola said on the sidelines of the press conference. "There was also a profit motive that united the two fans," Viola added, "was key to solving problems. It was in everyone's interest to keep the situation quiet," he added, also speaking of "pressure on scalpers because the control had to be absolute," he concluded. No involvement, however, with regard to club executives, explained Viola, who spoke of clubs as "damaged subjects". And of "criminal drift of Italian stadiums" and attempts at "mafia conditioning of the life of soccer clubs," spoke the National Antimafia Prosecutor, Giovanni Melillo. "Often stadiums are places of propaganda and also of recruitment, indoctrination of supremacist movements that make racism, anti-Semitism, fundamental watchwords. From this point of view comes an additional perspective of risk that should be carefully considered and to which we should not become accustomed," Giovanni Melillo added on the sidelines of the press conference. "I think this investigation demonstrates the need for deep reflection on the risks involved in perpetuating these logics," continued Melillo, who said that "numerous cases" in the past "could have served as a more effective wake-up call than they actually were”.
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