Italy OKs $15.5B project to build suspension bridge from mainland to Sicily

Re:Italy OKs $15.5B project to build suspension bridge from ... by davidelettieri on Monday August 11, 2025 @12:13PM (#44865945)

The problem is not WeBuilt, issues usually arise with subcontracting.

Calabria is home of Ndrangheta https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Organized-crime/Projects/...

Ndrangheta is a huge criminal organization with ties to politics and a lot of economic power and it is based in Calabria.

The current government actively proposed special antimafia rules for checking contractors and subcontractors for the bridge which, IMHO, reinforce the idea that it is a gift to mafia. Luckily the proposal was rejected by the president https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/strait-bridge-no-derogation-a...

We already had issues with ndrangheta and infrastructures for example https://transparency.eu/the-eternally-unfinished-highway/ or https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioia_Tauro

All of this only on one side of the bridge, on the other you have Sicily.

I think that there are reasonable doubts about mafia interference with the construction of the bridge.

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Re:Italy OKs $15.5B project to build suspension bridge from ... by davidelettieri on Monday August 11, 2025 @12:37PM (#44866254)

Also this is relevant to understand the situation in Calabria if you can read Italian or maybe with some translation tool https://www.ilpost.it/2025/06/27/commissariamenti-calabria/

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Re:Italy OKs $15.5B project to build suspension bridge from ... by lormayna on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @01:19AM (#44872676)

Then we should not do anything in Calabria and Sicilia for the fear of the criminal organisations?

There are many suspects that criminal organisations are involved in the actual ferry management:

https://lespresso.it/c/attualita/2021/2/23/cosi-la-mafia-con...

Whit your mindset we need to stop them as well

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