The mafia in Italy and Europe exist today and has quiet influence from Italy they never left in Europe and they still there but behind different things.
In italy, there just was in scandal for toxic garbage in Napoli:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-943630.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/30/wo...gacy.html?_r=0
There is Ndrangheta and Camorrah that exist today. They made a movie in 2008 about today Camorrah and actually won Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 among few others
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Italy was always divided. South remained always with problem always corrupted and had poor development in core structure doesn't match up with the rest of Italy. Despite the superficial touch ups and developing the tourism so many things remain the same.