Stidda

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Sicily in Italy

The Stidda is a criminal organization in Sicily . It is similar to the Sicilian Cosa Nostra , but has fewer members and is less hierarchical. It was probably founded in the late 1970s / early 1980s by former members of the Cosa Nostra who had split off. The number of members is currently ( Template: future / in 2 yearsas of 2017) estimated at 5000. Due to numerous arrests, the organization has lost its importance again.

So far there is little reliable information about the Stidda. The Pentito Francesco Marino Mannoia made the first statements about the organization in 1989 in a conversation with Giovanni Falcone . The name Stidda (Sicilian for 'star' and in another meaning also 'bad luck') indicates the identification mark of the members. The Stiddari or Stiddaroli tattoo a small, five-pointed star between the thumb and forefinger of their right hand.

The organization is as violent as the Cosa Nostra, but less hierarchical. The members split off from the Cosa Nostra after the Second Mafia War . This led to a bloody war between the Cosa Nostra and the Stidda in the early 1990s, with several hundred dead. While the Cosa Nostra was ruled almost autocratically by the “boss of the bosses” Salvatore Riina , especially in the 1980s and 1990s, the Stidda is network-like and horizontally structured and in this respect is more similar to the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta .

The individual groups are active independently of one another, especially in the free municipal consortia of Agrigento , Caltanissetta , Ragusa and Syracuse . The cities in which the stidda is demonstrably present are Agrigento , Camastra , Campobello di Licata , Canicattì , Licata , Favara , Palma di Montechiaro , Racalmuto and Vittoria .

The Tatort episode Kopper from Ludwigshafen from January 2018 dealt with the depiction of the Stidda in connection with persecutions and the German police .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henning Klüver : The Godfather - last act. A journey into the land of the Cosa Nostra. Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-00971-0 .
  2. ↑ TV film Germany 2018 : content, cast and staff.