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Area of Triveneto (Venice/Verona/Padua/Pordenone/Trento/Udine)Emilia-Romagna coastMarche Abruzzo coastRomeArea around Naples (Naples/Caserta /Castelvolturno).b) The same officials of the NGOs were involved for the choice ofwomen/victims to interview, requesting them to place the researchers in contactwith the women victims of the trafficking who were not only capable of describingtheir particular experience but also of giving a more detailed description of thesubject.c) To identify the case files of particular interest, research was undertaken at theGeneral Repository of the Tribunal of Turin of all the criminal proceedings(whether presently being undertaken or already defined) of Nigerians accused ofthe crime of which Art. 12 para.3 (aiding and abetting illegal immigration) of d.lgs.286/1998 (The Comprehensive Immigration Enactment) from 1999 to the end of2002. Thirty-nine proceedings were identified, out of which 6 were chosen whichwere considered to be particularly significant and interesting because of the highnumber of accused involved and/or the instance contested and because they werealready defined at least in the first instance. In a second stage, a second researchwas undertaken of all the criminal proceedings relating to ex art. 416 (conspiracy tooffend) and art. 416bis (conspiracy for mafia activities) of the Penal Code andtherefore a further penal case worthy of attention was identified. A further threepenal cases of importance were identified in other areas of Italy.The original idea was - for understandable reasons of privacy - to identifyalready defined criminal proceedings; undertaking the first research it wasunderstood that in this way there was a risk of identifying only outdated material. Itwas therefore decided, in agreement with some Law Enforcement officers, to lookat material of criminal proceedings that had not yet been concluded. So a custodyorder for a pending criminal proceeding was examined, holding an interviewstrictly connected to the papers in question. In a second case, a choice was made toundertake a more thorough interview, which covered the whole investigation,underlining the most relevant data: reasons of opportunity and privacy did notpermit other access to the documents of the proceedings.Even if not strictly connected to the subject of the enquiry and within theprotocol of the mission it was also considered useful to read some custodyprotection orders issued to Nigerian citizens for activities relating to the drug trade.d) As far as “institutional” subjects are concerned, Law Enforcement officials,those representing institutions in various functions involved in the fight againstorganised crime, the following were considered relevant:on the one hand, those responsible for structures and agencies covering thewhole national territory, starting with the members of the Task Force(National Antimafia Bureau (DNA), Ministry of Interior, the Command of theCarabinieri, etc.);on the other hand, the judges and the personnel of the judiciary police whooperate within the territory who are the most interested in the phenomenon