“Italian Ndrangheta plans bomb attack on prosecutor"

Hitmen from the Italian Ndrangheta mafia are planning an attack on a public prosecutor, the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano reports after a warning from a foreign intelligence service.
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Source : BELGA
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The target is Nicola Gratteri, prosecutor in Catanzaro, southern Italy. In recent years, he has played a major role in investigating members of the Ndrangheta mafia. That mafia would now be planning to blow up Gratteri. The Italian security services have provided security for Gratteri and his family. He was given extra bodyguards and a special car that interrupts telephone signals, preventing a possible bomb from being detonated under his car.

The news came to light in an article by the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano following the election of the new head of the National Directorate for Combating Mafia. Gratteri lost that election due to his dangerous situation. “Gratteri has the right qualities for the job, but is also exposed to the most risks. Indirect information has been obtained from the mafia environment about a possible attack against him," said some councilors.

The news of the attack is all the more shocking for Italians as this month marks the 30th anniversary of Giovanni Falcone, a judge known for prosecuting mafia members, who was also killed in a mafia attack. He, his wife and three of his bodyguards were killed when a bomb exploded as his car drove past on a highway near Palermo. Two months later, another judge was also killed. The incidents are still fresh in Italian collective memory.