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wew LEO ONAN EWE of the people eaainet the Rourbon regime. Despite their customarily violent prestige in the public mind.. Certainly they epitomized the general resentment | t ye wt wet ; practices, the public shtelded them against legal punishment. Duly constituted; authorities attempting to investipate crimes were met by a solidarity of ; | silence.! wy . { _ (8) Alleged Cooperation between Local Gangs: The Mafia _erganization” Cne student of Mefia history, whose opinion is tacitly supported by oe » several other sources, has pcinted out that the Mafia was never a single secret - society, centrally organized like the Neapolitan criminal organization known as the “amorra, * but a local and rural phencmenon. It was composed of a netvort | Of loced games, cach contectting ond plundering a certain territory, and linked : tezether by fluctuating bonds of rivalry and common interest. When expedient to do sa, these gangs would collaborate, pormitting passage of stolen cattle, tor, exairnple, into uther territe. les «here they could be disposed of without being 2 f12 identified by their oynors, 6 p. Gangs with Fatriotic Coloration The poliftcel situcttion is satd to have become Increasingly complicated in the early 19th Centory. The Mazzini bretbers and Gluseppe Garlbaldi, Italian patriots whe wer dedicated to the untfication of Italy and the overthrow *Or like the Communist Party is today. * of i 7 ill-