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It won't pay off. It is a gift to mafia.

lormayna 1y ago
WeBuilt, the general contractor, is one of the biggest building companies in the world. They even built a part of Panama Channel expansion. Why do you think that they are mafiosi? Personally I don't know if this bridge would be useful or not, but I think that refuse to building it just because mafia risk it's a stupid reason. Italy has a strong law and control system to prevent that and I remembered exactly the same argument about Bologna-Firenze high speed train tunnel and highways that after almost 20 years are successful infrastructures.
- davidelettieri 1y ago
  The problem is not WeBuilt, issues usually arise with subcontracting. Calabria is home of Ndrangheta https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Organized-crime/Projects/INTERPOL-cooperation-against-Ndrangheta-I-CAN-Phase-2 https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Organized-crime/Projects/... Ndrangheta is a huge criminal organization with ties to politics and a lot of economic power and it is based in Calabria. The current government actively proposed special antimafia rules for checking contractors and subcontractors for the bridge which, IMHO, reinforce the idea that it is a gift to mafia. Luckily the proposal was rejected by the president https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/strait-bridge-no-derogation-anti-mafia-rules-vigour-salvini-will-ask-for-maximum-rigour-AHAuTUt https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/strait-bridge-no-derogation-a... We already had issues with ndrangheta and infrastructures for example https://transparency.eu/the-eternally-unfinished-highway/ https://transparency.eu/the-eternally-unfinished-highway/ or https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioia_Tauro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioia_Tauro All of this only on one side of the bridge, on the other you have Sicily. I think that there are reasonable doubts about mafia interference with the construction of the bridge.
  - davidelettieri 1y ago
    Also this is relevant to understand the situation in Calabria if you can read Italian or maybe with some translation tool https://www.ilpost.it/2025/06/27/commissariamenti-calabria/ https://www.ilpost.it/2025/06/27/commissariamenti-calabria/
  - lormayna 1y ago
    Then we should not do anything in Calabria and Sicilia for the fear of the criminal organisations? There are many suspects that criminal organisations are involved in the actual ferry management: https://lespresso.it/c/attualita/2021/2/23/cosi-la-mafia-controlla-i-traghetti-tra-sicilia-e-calabria/11974 https://lespresso.it/c/attualita/2021/2/23/cosi-la-mafia-con... Whit your mindset we need to stop them as well

WeBuilt, the general contractor, is one of the biggest building companies in the world. They even built a part of Panama Channel expansion. Why do you think that they are mafiosi? Personally I don't know if this bridge would be useful or not, but I think that refuse to building it just because mafia risk it's a stupid reason. Italy has a strong law and control system to prevent that and I remembered exactly the same argument about Bologna-Firenze high speed train tunnel and highways that after almost 20 years are successful infrastructures.

davidelettieri 1y ago
The problem is not WeBuilt, issues usually arise with subcontracting. Calabria is home of Ndrangheta https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Organized-crime/Projects/INTERPOL-cooperation-against-Ndrangheta-I-CAN-Phase-2 https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Organized-crime/Projects/... Ndrangheta is a huge criminal organization with ties to politics and a lot of economic power and it is based in Calabria. The current government actively proposed special antimafia rules for checking contractors and subcontractors for the bridge which, IMHO, reinforce the idea that it is a gift to mafia. Luckily the proposal was rejected by the president https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/strait-bridge-no-derogation-anti-mafia-rules-vigour-salvini-will-ask-for-maximum-rigour-AHAuTUt https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/strait-bridge-no-derogation-a... We already had issues with ndrangheta and infrastructures for example https://transparency.eu/the-eternally-unfinished-highway/ https://transparency.eu/the-eternally-unfinished-highway/ or https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioia_Tauro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioia_Tauro All of this only on one side of the bridge, on the other you have Sicily. I think that there are reasonable doubts about mafia interference with the construction of the bridge.
- davidelettieri 1y ago
  Also this is relevant to understand the situation in Calabria if you can read Italian or maybe with some translation tool https://www.ilpost.it/2025/06/27/commissariamenti-calabria/ https://www.ilpost.it/2025/06/27/commissariamenti-calabria/
- lormayna 1y ago
  Then we should not do anything in Calabria and Sicilia for the fear of the criminal organisations? There are many suspects that criminal organisations are involved in the actual ferry management: https://lespresso.it/c/attualita/2021/2/23/cosi-la-mafia-controlla-i-traghetti-tra-sicilia-e-calabria/11974 https://lespresso.it/c/attualita/2021/2/23/cosi-la-mafia-con... Whit your mindset we need to stop them as well