Portella della Ginestra: gli apparati di sicurezza e la banda Giuliano

Abstract

In alternating phases and with long pauses, to counter banditry and the mafia - both in liberal and fascist Italy up to the republican one - special police and judiciary bodies were set up by political choice, which, legitimized by the state of emergency and from the logic of the enemy's criminal law, they acted with borderline investigative methods, such as the technique of infiltration and negotiation.