Giuseppe Antoci has been under protection since December 2014 due to threats from the Sicilian mafia. This protection has now been extended to the European Parliament.
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00:00Newly elected European Parliament lawmaker Giuseppe Antoci has warned against the existential
00:07threat of mafias to the European Union and its member states.
00:11To deal with this, Antoci called for a joint and coordinated response at the European level.
00:17As president of the Nebrodi Park in Sicily, Antoci devised a protocol to prevent money
00:23from European funds for agriculture from ending up in the hands of mafia clans.
00:28But this, he became an enemy of the mafia.
00:59Elected to the European chamber with Italy's leftist five-star movement, Giuseppe Antoci
01:12is among the MEPs who wonder the corridors of the European Parliament with special police
01:17protection. He maintains an escort in Brussels and Strasbourg
01:22and will have an office with special security measures without any glass windows outside.
01:52Despite the constant fears, Antoci says stopping one of the major financing channels of organised
02:04crime in Italy was worth it.
02:22Over the next five years, Giuseppe Antoci will be part of the Civil Liberties, Justice
02:48and Home Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, focusing on organised crime.