18 Jan mafia-type association

To qualify as a Mafia criminal organization, it is sufficient to the mere ability to intimidate that it has demonstrated outside, to be evaluated taking into account of the association, environment of operation, of the methods used, the organized structure and of any other element useful: a current capacity, effective and objectively verifiable, which can derive from the performance of even non-violent and non-threatening acts, which, however, are an expression of the 'criminal prestige' of the association, capable of bending to its own ends the will of those who come into contact with its members (Cass. 45181/19).