'Ndrangheta, FBI investigators on a mission in Calabria
May 7, 2021
First Interpol, now the FBI. In March, an Interpol operational summit was in Italy for three days between Rome, Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria, where they met, among others, the prosecutors of the Dda of Catanzaro and Reggio, respectively Nicola Gratteri and Giovanni Bombardieri, in a little less than a year after the launch of 'I-Can' which allowed the arrest of Marc Feren Claude Biart, a fugitive considered close to the Cacciola di Rosarno clan on 29 March. In the field a project involving the Italian police forces and those of 10 other countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA) which, like Italy, have set up dedicated operational units to the fight against the 'Ndrangheta. These days, however, the Federal Bureau of Investigations of the United States of America sent its men to Calabria. The contents of the meetings between the FBI and the Police Forces are not known, on which absolute confidentiality is maintained, but it is certain that these are not simple courtesy visits: synergies in progress at an operational level on investigations that cannot regardless of the assistance of the FBI.