Also last week.

'Ndrangheta, arrests in Gioia Tauro for international drug trafficking: 19 precautionary measures.

Thanks to the investigative activity, the Marina district and the Gioia Tauro waterfront were monitored for over two years, allowing us to reconstruct the organization chart of the 'ndrina De Maio-Brandimarte and demonstrate, in fact, that both places had been elected to " headquarters "and" enclave "of the mafia faction, because it is an ideal place to entertain private meetings between members of the association, to receive bosses, followers and important personalities from other 'Ndrangheta articulations, even in broad daylight .

Key character and starting point of the investigations was the 64-year-old Pasquale De Maio believed to be boss of the mafia group.

The 'ndrina De Maio-Brandimarte had the availability of a large quantity of weapons and trafficked permanently in the narcotics sector, dealing with cocaine, hashish and cannabis. In the meeting sites the exponents of the 'ndrina received the members of other' ndrine of the Piana di Gioia Tauro, thus certifying the recognition of the latter by the historical clans of the 'ndrangheta : the Alvaro of Sinopoli, the Pesce, the Cacciola and the Bellocco of Rosarno, so much so that all have sent their emissaries to Gioia Tauro.