Mafia will be wiped out soon - Salvini
We'll give our all to defeat organized crime says minister

(ANSA) - Sorbolo, December 18 - Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday that the days of Italy's various mafia syndicates are numbered. "We are the ones who are stronger," League leader Salvini said in Sorbolo, near Parma, at a ceremony for the handover to the finance police of accomodation from property seized from the Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta mafia.
"They can hang on for a few months or a few years, but the Mafia, the Camorra and the 'Ndrangheta will be wiped off the face of this splendid country. We'll give our all".

LOL even Benito Mussolini couldn´t defeat them.

Whats the deal with this Salvini? Roberto Saviano said he is the mafias guy am i right?

Matteo Salvini backed by politician 'with links to mafia'

Interior minister won senate seat with backing of Giuseppe Scopelliti, who is accused of having ties to ‘Ndrangheta

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...backed-by-politician-with-links-to-mafia

The gangs of the province of Crotone were ready to unleash a new mafia war to ensure control of the territory. This is what the police found at the end of an investigation coordinated by the DDA of Catanzaro that led to the arrest of several prominent members of the families of the 'Ndrangheta Crotone. The measures are taken against various members of the gangs of Isola Capo Rizzuto, Crotone and Petilia Policastro accused, for various reasons, of mafia association, attempted murder, extortion, attempted robbery, fire, port and illegal possession of weapons and ammunition. The investigations revealed that the gangs had already planned some murders.

Novella jr is free. Now he could claim damages for unjust detention. Edoardo Novella, 42, was acquitted "because the fact does not constitute a crime" from the accusation of being one of the organic members of a criminal association. Novella is the son of Carmelo, head of the Lombardy 'ndrangheta killed 10 years ago in San Vittore Olona after daring to rebel against the Calabrian mother house.

You don´t here much about the guys from Crotone. It´s the poorest province in Italy and one of the poorest in Western Europe.

THE NAMES OF THE ARRESTED
ARENA Salvatore born on 30.06.1991 in Crotone,
ASRAT SEYOUM Brook born 17.11.1987 in Ethiopia, res. Isola di Capo Rizzuto
CALABRETTA Gianfranco born 31.05.1987 in Crotone and resident in Isola di CR
CAPICCHIANO Antonio born 27.11.1977 and resident in Isola di Capo Rizzuto,
CAPICCHIANO Orlando born 23.10.1993, Isola di Capo Rizzuto
CAPICCHIANO Salvatore intends Porcedduzzu born the 24.07.1975 of Isola di Capo Rizzuto;
CARVELLI Cesare born 11.10.1985 in Crotone
CURCIO Rosario understood Pilirusso born on 27.07.1960 in Petilia Policastro
DEVONA Rocco intended Fettina born on 22.101984 in Crotone
GENTILE Antonio born on 22.08.1968 in Crotone,
GENTILE Giuseppe, understood Pepè born on 20.12.1974 in Isola di Capo Rizzuto
GIARDINO Alessandro born 16.04.1998 Isola di Capo Rizzuto
IERARDI Tommasino, born in Petilia Policastro (KR) on 28.10.1977
LENTINI Antonio born on 14.06.1999 in Crotone
MACRILLO 'Francesco born on 20.05.1993 in Crotone
MANFREDI Antonio born on 21.11. 1999 in Crotone
MANFREDI Luigi born on 30.04.1997 in Crotone
MUCCARI Giovanni born 17.11.1988 in Isola di Capo Rizzuto
NICOSCIA Antonio understood Macchietta or Mulinello, born on 02.03.1977 in Isola di Capo Rizzuto
NICOSCIA Antonio born 23.11.1987 residing in Isola di Capo Rizzuto
PAPALEO Santo Claudio born on 06.09.1988 resident in Isola di Capo Rizzuto
SERAPIDE Carmine born 13.11.1987 resident in Isola di Capo Rizzuto
SANCT Antonio born on 28.12.1978 in Crotone

The lawyer Paolo Romeo is considered the head of the occult component of the ´Ndrangheta.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...i-nuovo-sulla-detenzione-di-paolo-romeo/

In the 90s the ´ndrangheta held a big meeting with the Chinese bosses in Milan. They made a fortune, the Chinese supplied the workers and managers the Calabrians the money and the papers. All foreign groups in Italy work under the mafias.

Can you send link please?

It´s in the book Blood Ties: The 'Ndrangheta: Italy's New Mafia. It was a bestseller in Italy.

Great article !

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/cocaine-network-european-police/

In Pesaro, the brother of the pentito Girolamo Bruzzese was shot dead: he lived under state protection and in secret house.

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2...omo_ucciso_a_colpi_di_pistola-215123435/

"State protection" my ass. Shame on them

Yeah they should look at the protection program for relatives, it probably shows they are capable to infiltrate the program. The family usually condemns a pentito immediately to avoid retaliation like this.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/26/brother-of-mafia-supergrass-shot-dead-on-christmas-day

Brother of mafia supergrass shot dead on Christmas Day

https://montrealgazette.com/pmn/new...wcm/5a49bbd5-1a61-4aa6-8622-a290fd77c357

Mobsters suspected in slaying of turncoat's brother in Italy

In cases of vendetta or something like this , they usually kill on Christmas. Correct me if i am wrong but back in 2006 they killed a few family members in Calabria on ChristmasDay as revenge for killing back in 1991. Them infiltrating the program,really shows how powerful they are , you cant really hide from these guys.

Bruzzese left the program 2,5 years ago, but Federico Cafiero De Raho , National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, said about the killing in Pesaro. "People at risk who have collaborated with the state, have exposed their family members, can not be forgotten by the state." Even if the victim asked to leave the protection program, safety must always be guaranteed.

It does seem that LE world wide have relaxed some when it comes to informants and their families.

'Ndrangheta moving €1 billion from Malta to Curacao.

http://www.knipselkrant-curacao.com...robe-involving-malta-based-gaming-firms/

On the hunt for the Calabrian Mafia (spanish article)

https://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2018/12/30/5c279e37fdddffaf698b460a.html

Is this from the same operation not to long ago? Cause it seems they seize assets worth billions every 2-3 month in Malta from the Italian mafias.

I read somewhere that the Italian mafias are owned by The Black Nobility. Is this true you think?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...lds-deutsche-bank-study?CMP=share_btn_tw

'Ndrangheta mafia 'made more last year than McDonald's and Deutsche Bank'

'Ndrangheta initiation video released by Italian Police

https://www.themercury.com.au/news/...e/video/de05cb27a470a528724d2507659faa1c

The Guardia di Finanza of Rome confiscated real estate, cars and company shares, for a total value of about 2.8 million euro from
the boss Carmelo Giovanni Tripodo (born in 1958), of Calabrian origins but long since residing in lower Lazio, where he is the head of a fierce criminal mafia association.

Invoking the names Garibaldi, Mazzini and La Marmora in the opening is a Masonic reference, as are mention of the stars, the sun and the moon.

http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/hom...-i-porti-per-il-traffico-di-cocaina.html

The 'Ndrangheta and the ports for cocaine traffic

by Aaron Pettinari
Presented the report "Italian port security"

"The drug market is a market that knows no crisis and the 'Ndrangheta controls 80% of the cocaine traffic that arrives in Europe", declared Nicola Gratteri in an interview with our newspaper . it has never been questioned and it is also confirmed by more recent surveys.In recent days, the report was confirmed by the "Italian port security" report . "Among all the various mafia organizations in Italy, in fact - reads in the document -the Calabrian has managed to acquire almost total control of this traffic, pushing other criminal organizations, Italian or foreign, to specialize in the traffic of other drugs or other illicit trafficking. The peculiarity of the 'Ndrangheta is that the detention of this monopoly allows it to care less than other trades, such as that of foreign manufactured tobacco, preferring to leave this type of activity in Camorra and Puglia mafias, almost to divide up the proceeds for a peaceful modus vivendi. The acquisition of this substantial monopoly was possible thanks to the creation of solid relations with the South American cartels that made the 'Ndrangheta one of the most important mafia organizations in the world, with ramifications also in central and northern Italy and in the rest of Europe (as well as in the rest of the world). Therefore, it is the other Italian mafia organizations that have to turn to the Calabrian clans for the purchase of consignments of cocaine ".
In the study developed by Clarissa Spada and Francesco Marone and edited by Lorenzo Vidino , the themes of illicit trafficking and jihadist infiltration in Italian ports are analyzed . In particular, with regard to the former, we focus on the "smuggling of foreign manufactured tobacco, illegal immigration, arms trafficking and, above all, that of drugs, in relation to which we find a different treatment of cocaine, heroin, hashish and marijuana, as opportune as expected, the differences concerning the places of origin, the routes and the modes of transport, as well as the criminal groups that deal with the relative marketing continues to be the main gateway to white powder in Italy ".
In particular, it highlights how the 'Ndrangheta, in recent times, is "diversifying" the destination of the loads of the drug. The Port of Gioia Tauro remains the most important in the world chess game because it "is also the largest gateway to cocaine, so much so that it is sometimes called" Coca Tauro. "A port that has now become fundamental for the 'Ndrangheta, where the the most important families of the Gioia Tauro plain - Piromalli, Pesce, Molè, Bellocco - dominate and succeed in penetrating the management of the port on several levels ". However, due to the repressive action, the Calabrian organized crime would gradually diversify the points of arrival. "so they decided to turn to the ports of Northern Italy, such as those of Genoa, La Spezia, Vado Ligure (SV), Livorno, Venice. The dangerous bonds that the clans have managed to create and cement have made these areas a crossroads of sorting " , moreover, closer " to the remuneration dealing channels with those of Lombardy, Piedmont and even Northern Europe "." In confirmation of what was said - adds the study - 2018 began with very few cocaine seizures at the port of Gioia Tauro (about 74 kg from January to May 2018). On the contrary, more substantial quantities have been found in ports such as Genoa and Livorno " .

The routes of the White Gold
The loads of Cocaine arrive from South America (above all from Colombia) and from Mexico often taking advantage of transhipment operations with feeder services , also passing through West Africa or the ports of southern Spain. Four are the main broken indicated by the scholars.
The California express: from North America to Panama through California and Mexico. From Panama then, through the feeder services , we collect the minor loads from Chile, Peru and Brazil, directed to Gioia Tauro.
Medusa: from Mexico to the Bahamas. Here smaller loads are collected from the rest of South America through the ports of Spain, especially Valencia. The decision to enter the Schengen area by first touching the Spanish ports is certainly not random, but is intended to evade controls, and make the cargo less suspicious. One of the elements constituting the risk analysis of customs is precisely the origin of the cargo, together with the ship's flag. The fact that a ship has in theory already passed the controls of another European state, causes the illicit load to attract less attention.
Argentina: towards Montevideo, in Uruguay, and South Brazil, before leaving for Gioia Tauro.
From West Africa: in order to avoid predictable routes, many consignments of cocaine are diverted to Ghana and Nigeria and then sent to Europe.

Traffic methods
According to the report, the most used means of transporting coca is certainly that of containers. The drug is "concealed behind cover loads, sophisticated double-dumps developed to circumvent X-ray controls or even in empty containers." For several years the rip-off system has been adopted, which consists of positioning the game of drugs in bags in front of the container ship, in such a way as to be easily removed from port operators 'infidels', who receive specific instructions to carry out such an action ".In this case the load is not inserted in the very first phase of filling the container, "but at a later time, with the opening of the container itself through tampering and, sometimes, replacing its seal". Another one concerns transshipment operations off the coasts on smaller boats, often fishing boats. It also happens that the drugs are thrown into the sea from the mother ship, equipped with GPS, so as to intercept them. Finally, the use of specially modified motor ships in the bottom to then proceed with the extraction of the load with the help of divers.

Man its always the same articles about Ndrangheta.. They control 80 % of the cocaine in Europe, they have good ties to the Cartels bla bla bla. I would love to see more articles on them Like this one

https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-real-spectre

or this one

http://www.spiegel.de/international...he-world-of-the-ndrangheta-a-806233.html

With little more insight

'According to statistics compiled by the Italian judiciary, until 2008 there were about 1,000 pentiti affiliated with the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, 2,000 with the Camorra in Naples -- but only 42 with the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta.'
this one from the secondo link is just bullshit anyway, according to ministry of interior there are currently about 700 people in the witness program and it includes members, associates and civil testimonies of all the 4 major mafia groups and even other groups (also foreign)
sicilian mafia and camorra have both 250 and ndrangheta 140