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Following the Duisburg murders Italian anti-Mafia prosecutors have been preparing a package of measures aimed at revamping the country’s anti-mafia laws, according to the Justice Minister, Clemente Mastella: “We are in the process of drawing up new standards, new preventive measures, on the confiscation of goods and monitoring illicit funds,” Mastella told the Italian daily Il Messaggero. International action against the Mafia, particularly in Europe, needed to be stepped up, he said.

Mastella said the government would reveal the proposals in October. But he said they included mandatory judicial investigations into assets held by suspected Mafiosi, and the training of special judicial police teams to head up investigations. “We are trying to modernize anti-mafia laws,” he added.

Aww, bless his little cotton socks. But here’s the deal: Italy’s judicial system is beyond convoluted, inequitable, corrupt, and capricious; furthermore, the real movers and shakers are wealthy, often in public office or the security agencies, and this is a land where that means they won’t even be investigated.

Ummm, oh yeah, P2. ‘Nuff said.

And, good lord, I almost forgot: Location! Location! Location! Ain’t no paesano gonna give up his childhood homie who happens to be the biggest provider in the village these days. Not while Rome continues to shit on the south; and not for a long time after they stop, if they ever do.