Historical background

Until the early 1980s, mafia was generally considered a unique Sicilian cultural attitude and form of power, excluding any corporate or organisational dimension.Some even used it as a defensive attempt to render the Mafia benign and romantic: not a criminal association, but the sum of Sicilian values that outsiders never will understand. Italian Mafia

On the following presentation you will find information of the historical background and the leaders of the "clans". Historical background presentation