Maybe I was wrong to give this post the hierarchical level of a “subchapter” of this book … because there isn’t much more to say about the local underworld … it basically doesn’t exist anymore.
I don’t know a single mid/high-level figure in the local underworld who is Italian; among the young there’s nothing left except drug addicts or, at most, some occasional and/or low-level dealer, and among the not-so-young it’s just a long list of desperate people with no real influence anymore, many in jail, many in_and_out of jail, by now wrecked even in their health because of prolonged dependence on alcohol and heavy drugs of every kind …
Amen.