They also found pizzini about the rituals.

"In the name of Gasparre-Melchiorre-Baldassarre and Charlemagne , who with his white horse destroyed all the enemies of his kingdom, with a cape on his shoulders and beside a sword they formed the Trequartino".

This is the text of the "pizzino", written with an approximate Italian, seized by the investigators to one of the 334 recipients of precautionary measures in the "Rinascita-Scott" operation of the carabinieri. The pizzino contains the promotion formula of the affiliates to the rank of "Trequartino", one of the highest in the 'Ndrangheta hierarchy.

The grade, in fact, is inferior only to those of Padrino and Quartino. Gasparre, Melchiorre and Baldassarre, in mafia mythology, are the three knights who gave birth to the three Italian mafias , mafia, camorra and 'ndrangheta.


"The king is dead, long live the king!"