Massacre in Duisburg, the day the world discovered the 'Ndrangheta
BY TOMMASO DICAPRIO POSTED ON AUGUST 15, 2023

With the Duisburg massacre, which took place on August 15, 2007, the 'Ndrangheta revealed its most brutal and vengeful face to the world for the first time. The attack in which six people lost their lives was yet another settlement of accounts between the two rival 'ndrine of Nirta-Strangio and Pelle-Vottari, at war since the 1990s. Underestimated for years by the state, the Calabrian mafia is today one of the most powerful organizations on the planet, with affiliates spread across five continents and a turnover of 73 billion dollars.
August 15, 2007, Duisburg, Germany. It is in this industrial city of the Ruhr where many Italians live and work, that the whole world first became acquainted with the brutality of the 'Ndrangheta . The outcome of the Duisburg massacre was tremendous: six dead killed, all from Calabria. Behind the mid-August massacre, as it was immediately renamed, a ferocious war was brewing between two 'ndrine rooted in the stone heart of Aspromonte, the Nirta-Strangio and the Pelle-Vottari, protagonists of the long feud of San Luca .

After years of investigations and trials, eight life sentences were issued for the Duisburg massacre. Among those convicted was Giovanni Strangio , considered the creator and one of the executors of the reprisals carried out by the Nirta-Strangio clan against the rival Pelle-Vottari gang.

In addition to Giovanni Strangio, the judges of the Court of Assizes of Locri issued another seven life sentences: the last one in 2020 for Francesco Nirta, accused of multiple murder and possession of a firearms license. Among the other defendants sentenced to life imprisonment are Giovanni Luca Nirta, Giuseppe Nirta, known as 'Peppe u versu', Francesco Pelle known as 'Ciccio Pakistan', Sebastiano Romeo, Francesco Vottari known as 'Ciccio u Frunzue' and Sebastiano Vottari, known as ' the professor'.

The long trail of blood that leads straight to Duisburg starts from afar
The Duisburg massacre represents yet another bloody episode in the long "feud of San Luca", which has raged between the two rival clans since the 1990s. The spark that ignited the fire of revenge between the two families was a disagreement born for futile reasons. During the carnival of 1991 a group of boys linked to the Strangio and Nirta clans threw eggs at the ARCI recreational club, managed by Domenico Pelle, one of the " Gambazza " , also dirtying the car of one of the members of the clan of the Vottaries.

Subsequently, after that first "snub", the ARCI bar was once again targeted by some young members of the Nirta and Strangio clans. This time, some affiliates of the Pelle family beat up the boys, punishing them with what in the Sanluca dialect is call a "cardiata" of beatings.

In the mafia environment, however, a slight cannot go unpunished, as it represents an affront to the honor and respectability of the family. Therefore, to take revenge for the wrong suffered, another group of young people of the Nirta-Strangio, having learned of the incident, decided to settle the accounts by meeting an affiliate of the Vottari clan.

The encounter degenerated into a shootout in which two young men of the group were killed, Francesco Strangio , 20, and Domenico Nirta , 19. But, in the growing spiral of violence and revenge, the Vottari clan surprisingly decided on the lifelong exile from San Luca of the person responsible for the murders. This measure, however, turned out to be useless since the assassin of the Nirta-Strangios was killed a short time later in the neighboring municipality of Bovalino, where he had found temporary refuge.

The Christmas Massacre of 2006
The feud resumed in 1993 when two bosses of the Pelle-Vottari clan were killed, who in turn responded with two more murders. After twelve years without killings, in January 2005, Salvatore Favasuli was killed in Casignana. The alleged perpetrator of that crime was identified in the person of Domenico Giorgi, arrested in Rivalta di Turin on 19 November 2010.

The revenge of Favasuli's other brother, Antonio was not long in coming: on 31 October 2005, Antonio Favasuli killed Antonio Giorgi, triggering a series of cross-revenge which reopened the San Luca feud again.

But the most serious event took place on Christmas evening 2006 when a group of Pelle-Vottari hitmen killed Maria Strangio , wife of Giovanni Nirta and real target of the attack, who managed to save himself, however, remaining paralyzed for life. With the murder of the wife of the boss of the Nirta clan, the mediation attempts undertaken by Francesco Vottari (known as U Frunzu ) to put an end to the war also died.

And thus we arrive at the night between 15 and 16 August 2007. It is 2.30 when a group of six boys, all from Calabria, leave the restaurant "Da Bruno", after having celebrated the eighteenth birthday of one of them, Tommaso Venturi, originally from Calabrian Corigliano.

As soon as the six get into their cars, the killes spring into action. At least 70 shots will be fired in the shootout. At the end of the slaughter, the assassins will shoot each victim in the head, to ensure their death.

The bodies will be found by a passerby a few minutes after the shooting: four in a Voskswagen Golf, two in an Opel van. Only one of the six boys will still be alive when first aid arrives, but he will die during transport to the hospital.

The victims' ties to the 'Ndrangheta
In the days immediately following the massacre, the German police disclosed a possible sketch of one of two men seen fleeing from the square in front of the Italian restaurant: a man of the apparent age of 20-30 years, thin, about one meter eighty tall, with short black hair, two long sideburns and a large mole under the right eye, which later turns out to be Giovanni Strangio.

The mafia imprint on the massacre emerged after the first checks: in fact, in the pockets of one of the boys killed, Tommaso Venturi, the image of a holy card with a burnt head was found , used by the 'Ndrangheta in affiliation rites.

During the searches of the "Da Bruno" restaurant, the German police discovered a room with the statue of the Archangel Michael, protector of the "honored society" (another name by which the Calabrian mafia is identified), in which they were "baptized" the new recruits.

Initially, the German investigators, also supported by the Italian police, hypothesized an investigative lead linked to internal problems of the Pelle-Vottari clan. This hypothesis was immediately denied by the interception of a telephone call made immediately after the massacre by Giovanni Strangio, brother of the just killed Sebastiano, to Achille Marmo.

Immediately after the shooting, the man, who was calling from Duisburg, tried to get in touch in Calabria with the boss Antonio Pelle, on the phone called the "mother" because of his apical role held within the organization, informing him about what happened.

It was that interception that allowed the investigators to link the Duisburg massacre to the San Luca feud. The Italian police believed that the main target of the ambush was Marco Marmo , brother of Achille, suspected of having guarded the weapons used in the 2006 Christmas massacre in which Maria Strangio died. But in addition to the transversal vendettas that had been dragging on since 1991, the investigations also ascertained an economic motive: Marco Marmo and Giovanni Strangio were in fact involved in arms trafficking with the former Yugoslavia.

Trials and sentences
On 12 July 2011, the Court of Assizes of Locri issued the first instance sentence for those guilty of the Duisburg massacre, sentencing Giovanni Strangio, Gianluca Nirta, Francesco Nirta, Giuseppe Nirta, Francesco Pelle, Sebastiano Romeo, Francesco and Sebastian Vottari.

In 2013, a new investigation by the Reggio Calabria district anti-mafia directorate found in a Renault Clio, which according to the investigators was one of the two cars used by the killers, the DNA of Sebastiano Nirta, who was later sentenced to life imprisonment.

In 2016 the Supreme Court sentenced Giovanni Strangio to life imprisonment for Francesco Nirta, Giovanni Nirta and Sebastiano Vottari as creator and perpetrator of the massacre, while Antonio Pelle was acquitted.

From a prank gone wrong to a sixteen-year feud
The Duisburg massacre was a case of transversal revenge which in mafia culture follows the logic of "blood calls for blood". However, with the mid-August morning the leaders of the 'Ndrangheta realized that the San Luca feud had gotten out of hand to the very clans involved and risked blowing up the business bank in Germany.

Furthermore, the investigations following the Duisburg massacre confirmed that the Calabrian mafia had been rooted in the heart of Germany for over ten years : the German investigators became aware of the presence of various "local" 'Ndrangheta (coordination structure of the 'ndrine la whose opening is decided directly by San Luca) scattered throughout the national territory.

The media attention, but above all judicial attention, raised by the massacre therefore forced the mafia bosses to run for cover to prevent the blood shed in a feud between two clans from damaging the "quiet life" of the other families.

On 2 September 2007, 18 days after the massacre, on the occasion of the celebrations of the Madonna di Polsi, in Calabria, the 'Ndrangheta elite held a meeting with representatives of the two families involved in the feud, forcing them to reach peace .

On the occasion of that meeting, the "crimine" of San Luca (the dome of the organization) was also preparing to create a new figure of "mediator" 'Ndrangheta, whose task was to settle the misunderstandings and frictions between the mafia families abroad because another Duisburg should never happen again.

Thomas DiCaprio

https://www.ultimavoce.it/strage-di-duisburg-il-giorno-in-cui-il-mondo-scopri-la-ndrangheta/

The Casalesi and the 'Ndrangheta have been big in the management of slot machines
The repentant Nicola Femia talks about the relationship between the video poker "king" of Campania and the "papaniciaries".

Another repentent? Goddamn. Is there anyone over there who's not a repentent?

In 2017 Nicola Femia , known as Rocco, considered by the investigators a boss of the 'Ndrangheta, stationed in Ravenna, had been sentenced to 26 years in prison after a judge found him guilty of running a major illegal online poker and casino operation.
Investigations showed Femia had contacts in Romania and London, as well as three police officers helping him run a series of online poker and casino sites.
Hosted in the UK and Romania but offering unlicensed poker and casino games to players in Italy, the websites were made available to players via the same venues where rigged slots were housed.
Following a trial that took more than three years to complete, a court in Bologna found the Femia family guilty of running an online gambling empire worth a suspected $65 million.

I actually think that some of these repentents are allowed back in, especially if they're really valuable to the organization and if they didn’t do too much damage.

Like someone like Raffaele Imperiale for instance, I can see him being welcomed back with open arms just because his connections and contacts are so valuable.

Italy

San Luca, a journey in the territory of the 'Ndrangheta with the carabinieri who fight it every day
August 18, 2023
(LaPresse) The city of San Luca, in southern Calabria, has only 4,000 inhabitants. Nonetheless, it is the territory of the 'Ndrangheta. Michele Fiorentino, commander of the San Luca Carabinieri, and his team not only work but live in a difficult context: "The town has about 3,500-4,000 inhabitants. Most of them have been convicted of drug trafficking", said Fiorentino to the British broadcaster Sky, in a video released by the Associated Press. Luigi Di Gioia, commander of the carabinieri of nearby Plati, says that the mafia controls the territory. Even the garbage cans bear the names of the 'Ndrangheta families. Di Gioia told reporters that locals on motorbikes are often employed by the mafia to police the town. In a house in the center of the village, Di Gioia showed Sky an old mafia hideout with a hidden bunker that leads to a tunnel through which two mafia bosses have been trying to escape. The agents of these cities work daily in the fight against the mafia organization, but their work is made more difficult by the roots and the centuries-old hold it has on communities like these. In recent years, European authorities have embarked on a campaign against the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, which has eclipsed the Sicilian mafia as the main sender of tens of billions of euros of cocaine that has moved from South America to Europe in recent decades. In May, police across Europe arrested dozens of people, raided homes and seized assets worth millions of euros in a coordinated crackdown on organized crime. The operation, coordinated by the European Union's judicial cooperation agency Eurojust, aimed at dismantling a network that included members of the 'Ndrangheta, Colombian drug producers and paramilitary groups. The investigation uncovered how these networks used ports in Ecuador, Panama and Brazil to ship Colombian drugs to ports in northern Europe, also smuggling weapons. The drug proceeds were then laundered through restaurants, ice cream parlors and car washes, and the money sent back to Colombian drug makers via a Chinese bank transfer service, according to authorities. RESTRICTION SUMMARY: SKY NEWS EXCLUSIVE - NO ACCESS UK; NO ACCESS UK BROADCASTERS, BBC, ITN, CNNI, AL JAZEERA, BLOOMBERG, GB NEWS, TALK TV

Police seize major quantity of cocaine at Gioia Tauro
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Italian police on Friday seized 150 kg of cocaine at the Calabrian container port of Gioia Tauro, one of the largest in Europe, and the entry point that Italy’s richest and most powerful mafia organisation ‘Ndrangheta uses to bring in much of the cocaine it handles.

Scu and 'Ndrangheta in the story of the magistrate Nicola Gratteri
The public prosecutor of Catanzaro presented his latest book to a passionate crowd that arrived in the historic center of Mesagne

MESAGNE - He began the meeting by exposing the need to adapt the Italian legislative structure to current criminal phenomena, then moving on to the theme of youth education, ending with a focus on the actions of the 'Ndrangheta in 2023. In between, fear - even if in truth it is almost a certainty - that the rubble of the war in Ukraine could make money for criminal organizations, fueling the black market in arms.

These are just some of the main issues addressed by the prosecutor of the Republic of Catanzaro, Nicola Gratteri , a guest yesterday evening (August 20) in Mesagne.

The magistrate, much appreciated by the large audience present in Piazza Orsini del Balzo, presented his new book “Fuori dai confine – La 'Ndrangheta in the world”, co-written with the essayist Antonio Nicaso.

And it is precisely in that Historic Center, once a fort of the united sacra crown (Scu), that today the rebirth of a community is celebrated, that of Mesagne. Clearly, always remaining vigilant to ensure that the mistakes of the past cannot be repeated.

Mafias nowadays
"We are in 2023 and yet we are still talking about the mafia, this is incredible - says Gratteri - the contrast of the state has achieved good results, especially in some territories, but there is still a lot of work to do".

“Besides the fact that our judicial system is not fully adequate to the challenges of this time, it must be said that the watchword is credibility . In a consumerist society like the current one, how is it possible that a young schoolboy – who perhaps lives in difficult contexts – can find her model in the teacher?”.

Specifically, the public prosecutor refers to the too low salaries of Italian teachers. Circumstance he knows well because, as he said, his wife (under guard like him) also teaches mathematics in a middle school.

In some territories, the "neighborhood bully", who arrives at the bar with a good car, attracts the attention of young people more than a modest teacher, whose role is often mistreated. This is exactly how the mafia consortia manage to fascinate those who will be the young followers of the future.

And again, Gratteri insists on school: "In September, don't make plans for legality - he thunders, addressing the teachers - take the kids to drug rehabilitation centers" so that they can understand in which area the mafias operate.

Nicola Gratteri in Mesagne: "Talking to young people and acquiring credibility to fight the mafias" (WATCH THE VIDEO)
The criminal force, up to Eastern Europe
The 'Ndrangheta is the only mafia present on all five continents. Over time it has taken on its own form of credibility (and this keyword returns here too).

“Just think – says Gratteri – that compared to the others, the Calabrian mafia manages to pay less for the cocaine that comes from the Amazon forest. It is 1,000 euros for a game, while the other organizations pay out 1,800. But that's not all, the 'Ndrangheta supporters are given the opportunity to pay for the goods after having sold them on their own market. A major plus."

This alone can make us understand the importance assumed over time by this company , which like the others is now capable of communicating with innovative technological mechanisms : "It is as if organizations had invented another whatsapp - says the public prosecutor - Incredible no? The Italian security systems are not able to access them".

Precisely with these mechanisms , sometimes with the help of highly trained Romanian hackers, it is possible to trade illegal goods in a safer way.

From here, the passage of the magistrate on the situation that binds Italy, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. According to Nicola Gratteri, what happened during the war in Yuvoslavia will take place in Ukraine: "What will happen to the weapons used?" he wonders, already knowing the answer. "Why hasn't the West equipped them with a GPS? The weapons will end up on the black market, we know that the price has been set at 30,000 euros a piece".

Already the arms market, a long story that takes the public prosecutor of Catanzaro back to the flourishing times of the united sacra corona. When the sacristi in Montenegro not only hid the cigarettes intended for smuggling but also the means to offend. But what did the criminals from Puglia do with it? Probably many of them didn't even know how to use sniper weapons.

The answer is given in Gratteri's book: those weapons were destined for a real "barter", a criminal exchange between the united sacra corona and the 'Ndrangheta. The latter brought cocaine to Puglia to fuel an infinite circle that reached its peak in the 1990s.

And now what will happen once the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is over? The question is legitimate, just as it is legitimate to ask whether Puglia and Brindisi will once again play "a leading role" in the exchange of illegal goods after so many years.

700 kilos of cocaine seized – Shipment linked to Italian ‘Ndrangheta and Balkan Cartel https://gangstersinc.org/blog/700-kilos-of-cocaine-seized-shipment-linked-to-italian-ndrangheta

Two drug traffickers from the 'Ndrangheta mafia who had fled to Paraguay were extradited to Italy
The criminals played an important role in the Calabrian criminal group, as trusted men of their main boss. They had been detained and expelled from the South American country last month.

It is believed that the Giorgi were in Paraguay "trying to coordinate contacts and links to direct their actions " from there, including sending a load of 10 tons of cocaine to Europe.

Coco Trovato, the super boss must stay in hard prison: "Still in contact with the clans"
The historic head of the Lecco 'Ndrangheta has been at 41 bis since '92. For the Cassation, the 76-year-old has never "severed the ties" with his organization

Franco Coco Trovato was arrested by the Carabinieri on 31 August 1992 in the "Wall Street" pizzeria in via Belfiore in Lecco
Millano, 24 August 2023 – It has been in its 41st year since 1992 . And he also dedicated the thesis that allowed him to obtain a law degree in 2017 to that article of the prison system. In recent days, the Cassation has decided that the boss of the Lecco 'Ndrangheta Franco Coco Trovato must remain in hard prison , in Rebibbia : the judges rejected the appeal of his defender Valerio Vianello Accorretti and confirmed the previous verdict of the Surveillance Court of Rome.

https://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/cron...ss-deve-restare-al-carcere-duro-8ac7b1d6

Have there been cases where bosses have gotten around 41 bis? Seems like the guards would be corruptible they can't get paid that much, lol.

Mafia 2.0 is proliferating on the Swiss financial centre

Money laundering makes more and more use of information technology, according to what emerged from the recent Glicine-Acheronte investigation.

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A recent investigation conducted in Italy, with alleged Swiss connections, would confirm how the 'Ndrangheta has been moving for some time in the world of clandestine finance, both to carry out scams and to launder funds through banking channels.

A 2.0 mafia that proves capable of exploiting the resources offered by technology: this is what emerged from the Glicine-Acheronte operation (like the infernal torrent described by Dante in the "Divine Comedy"). A river of money that, from 2019 to 2020, the 'Ndrangheta would have flowed into banks all over the world. From Southeast Asia to Brazil, from Panama to Italy, from Germany to Switzerland.

At the center of the investigation is the Megna di Papanice clan, a hamlet of Crotone. There are over a hundred suspects and 43 people who have ended up in prison in recent weeks. Among these are also two hackers: a 45-year-old Italian and a 57-year-old German.

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The latter has been defined as "the computer hub of the partnership" since his knowledge, combined with the complacency of corrupt bankers, would have served above all to launder (or attempt to do so) the millionaire proceeds of the clan, earned with drug trafficking, which they would then reinvest in the legal economy. The "washing" would have been done through clandestine trading platforms, not subject to the controls that usually supervise the buying and selling of financial products.

The other type of activity - claims the Catanzaro prosecutor's office, which conducted the investigations - consisted of various forms of fraud, such as for example bogus bank guarantee systems, set up to induce institutions to grant important credit lines.

+ "Mobsters feel relatively safe in Switzerland"

The repentant Gennaro Pulice also spoke of the latter system, who took refuge in the canton of Ticino between 2013 and 2015, where - according to him - he allegedly exploited the services of the financial center to embezzle and "clean up" dirty capital. The fictitious guarantees used by the mafia clans were also available to some foreign football clubs, including Como.

That's not all: laundering was also done through illicit withdrawals from inactive accounts or with credit cards from devices manipulated to read them.

"100% security does not exist"
How is it possible? "100% security does not exist for anyone", Alessandro Trivilini, head of the computer forensic service of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) told the microphones of RSI Radiotelevisione della Svizzera italiana. Cybercrime, he explains, "try to exploit the human factor", i.e. by trying to impersonate, for example, a bank customer "or by seeking the unvarnished complacency of someone within the bank who knows the IT architecture , the guidelines, the security procedures", offering money to these people to "open those security doors and close their eyes for some malware to enter and commit the crime".

+ Cryptomafia: the mafia 2_0

The battle against money laundering in the Swiss financial system (but in general the world one) "is a battle that will never end", declares Alberto Petruzzella, president of the Ticino Banking Association. According to Petruzzella, however, cases of corrupt personnel are very rare: "there are much more cases of collaborators who make mistakes, who do not notice or who have not carried out sufficient checks. It must be said that the underworld has become very sophisticated in this sense. There is no longer the character who shows up at the bank with a flat cap and a suitcase of money to launder". Everything has become extremely sophisticated, he adds. Personnel must be trained and increasingly sophisticated technological systems must be developed.

Meanwhile, on the dark web, advertisements from hackers continue to proliferate, placing their specialist services at the disposal of the highest bidder.

https://www.tvsvizzera.it/tvs/cultu...la-piazza-finanziaria-svizzera-/48761668

The latest investigations into the so-called 'Ndrangheta 3.0 showed they used, among others, U.S. Bank to move money it's so complex money went from Hong Kong to London to South America to Italy etc..

Where did you see that?

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...gli-usa-e-i-21-milioni-per-mister-ar-sa/

Google translation is horrible though.

Yes I know, we really need a proper American organized crime journalist based in Italy.

It's not so easy in Italy as in US, if you do that in Italy , you probably need to live under police protection.

I get what you're saying. When it comes to the drug cartels, there are countless articles out there coming out on a constant basis, in plain, fluent English! The Italian Mafia? Not so much. Every great once in a while, but most of the time you have to use Google translate. I would think that a story as intriguing as the one Hollander posted above with the Ndrangheta moving that much money around the world, even the US, to be in plain English somewhere.

Mafioso arrested in Southern Germany

He is said to have hid in tranquil Bad Urach on the Swabian Jura for four years. Disguised as a regular employee, he went to work every day. But now the 59-year-old is in jail –

The 59-year-old and his wife were surprised while they were sleeping, he is said to have been a member of the 'Ndrangheta and involved in a murder.

His neighbors are unlikely to have suspected the dark secret. According to the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office, he "behaved completely inconspicuously from the outside. He lived in the Swabian province together with his family.

The State Criminal Police Office states that the 59-year-old is said to have been involved in a murder in Italy in 2000. The "Stuttgarter Nachrichten" reports that Mafia boss Massimiliano Greco (39) was shot dead at the time. Before that, he is said to have been lured into an ambush.

Tip probably came from the USA, the investigators there are said to link him to child pornography.

Linked to child pornography by the US, but no American newspaper anywhere to report on the matter, not even give his name? This is what I'm talking about.

You would think that these organizations would kill anyone who is into child pornography, so as not to damage their image. Now it looks like they all might be into it.

I know yakuza and other Asian crime syndicates have been involved for decades. Italian mafias IDK.
Organ trafficking and child pornography are two of the most outrageous trades.

Some are against it, others don't give a fuck if its making money. Same with murdering of children , some are against it while others do it , in 2014 'Ndrangheta killed 3 year old child , when they went after family of government witness Pasquale Perciaccante , they killed his relative Giuseppe Iannicelli and his girlfriend , but in the car was also a 3 year old child, they just didn't care.

Nah. The Albanians are arguably just as powerful in the European cocaine trade as Ndrangheta. They basically co- manage a lot of the key European ports, Spain is like 80s Miami....everyone is there. I'm not sure if any one group is dominant there.

London is the biggest retail market, it's dominated by Albanians both retail AND wholesale....

So what do people mean when they say that the Ndrangheta dominates the European cocaine trade and are one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the world? Have we been lied to and the Ndrangheta really isn't shit?

My point was that when the Ndrangheta arranges marriages with other ethnic groups, these are strategic, business marriages not love marriages or marriages by chance.

Ndrangheta are definitely one of the biggest cocaine trafficking groups active in Europe, but at the moment there are so many groups active that bring in tons of cocaine it's hard to say who's dominant. Ndrangheta and Camorra are both extremely active cocaine smuggling entities, but so are Albanian, Serb/Montenegrin, Moroccan, Dutch, British, Irish, Algerian, Turkish and Lebanese criminal organizations and clans as well as outlaw motorcycle groups.

When I take Belgium as an example, Ndrangheta is an extremely prominent wholesaler in the Limburg region. In the Antwerp region on the other hand - even though Ndrangheta has influence over the ports in Antwerp - it's largely Moroccan crime families that are the biggest wholesalers as well as a Turkish-Assyrian clan that was dominant for years.

In the London region, Albanians are extremely prominent, but in the South London/Kent/Essex areas some of the biggest ones are British (for instance Jonathan Parkhill got caught a few years ago after an extreme fuck-up, but he was/is a very huge name in London-based organized crime).

Ndrangheta is more diversified, it is not involved only in drug trafficking and it has strong political connections