Anti-Mafia apparatus against NGO's
Because the investigations were conducted by the policing and judicial apparatus of the anti-Mafia, much of the information surrounding the proceedings against NGOs remains classified. We know that in May and June 2017 alone, at least three different judiciaries carried out separate investigations into the Iuventa, Sea-Watch and Proactiva. Yet the Iuventa's is the only public police file from that period. The dossier allows us to reconstruct the policing tactics behind the pursuit of our ship and crew, and with that, the interlocking interests of the Italian state, the EU and the rising right wing.