Battleground Rome: mafia gangs fight for control of cocaine trade January 18 2023, 12.00am
The killers who banged on Andrea Fiore’s front door last Sunday and shot him in the chest had picked the time and place carefully.
The cottage, squeezed between a field and a railway line on the edge of Rome, was miles from streets crowded with tourists in the centre of the city. But the death of the small-time crook grabbed headlines the moment investigators linked it to at least five murders this year. They were all triggered by a struggle to grab a slice of Rome’s cocaine market after the arrest of some of the city’s biggest crime lords.
“The police have done a great job arresting bosses but inevitably it has left a power vacuum and there’s now a war
