“The ‘ndrangheta is active in Girona and in the province of Madrid, in Murcia and in Catalonia. The camorra is in Barcelona and Tarragona, but also in Valencia and Tenerife. The camorra can be found In Ibiza too where Cosa nostra settled many years ago. The Sicilian mafia is also in Zaragoza and naturally here in Madrid too”. Explains Rosa who has been investigating into Italian criminal associations for years.

“In Malaga on the other hand, there’s a bit of everything” adds Grinda, who seems almost to cite the 2016 Italian DIA report. In that report the logistic importance of Spain is highlighted, used as a platform both by Latin American narco-traffickers and the European clans: in this respect, Spain is a sort of safe haven for half the world’s criminal associations. “All the criminal organisations present in Spain deal in drug trafficking, within our country but most of all towards Europe: Italy, Holland, France, Belgium, Germany”, explains Grinda, who goes on to say: “When I say all criminal organisations I mean all. They are all here in Spain: Italians, Albanians, Nigerians, but most of all Russians who are the emerging mafia here”.