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Organizations like the Yakuza, 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra, the Irish Mafia, etc, are part of many countries, to bigger or smaller fashion.

But to someone from those countries, what do you think was the original/historical cause for such organizations to develop?

My country - Portugal - has some degree of presence of these organizations but, to my knowledge, we never developed our domestic version of a crime syndicate. And we are not a bunch of choir boys. Something just kept things from forming. And that intrigues me.

So, what is the understanding of someone from a country where the organizations exist?

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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's a long standing rumor where I live that the Hell's Angels own a bunch of infrastructure stuff like vehicle registries. I dunno of that's true or not though.

Also a suspicious amount of old buildings that are protected for historical reasons seem to catch fire right after being bought for development.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh my God here too. The city wanted to build a parking garage and one after another, the houses on that lot had "accidental" fires that burned them completely down. I don't think it was organized gangs though, just the city and property owners defrauding insurance.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 12 hours ago

I worked with a guy that had a run in with two HA's that came to our country to settle a score for a local affiliate.

What I was told is that they have this structure where if you have enough favour in the "club" to ask for help in solving an issue, you get members sent from abroad to "lend some shade".

The other guy got two bruisers sent from the US that only managed to get beat up and arrested in a very public fashion here. Spent a few months seeing the sun rise chekered and got deported afterwards.