'Ndrangheta, the French case. The French Riviera and mafia infiltration

Italian organized crime dominates in France , in particular it is the ' ndrangheta which has moved its operational "headquarters" between Nice, Cannes and Menton , i.e. on the French Riviera . The map of the new business - we read in La Stampa - is entirely contained in the latest half-yearly report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate . And it lines up mafias, cities and families as if in a risk of power and luxury. Sixty-four kilometers of coastline which for at least three decades have been hospitable and distracted towards the money of Italian organized crime, expertly exported to the general transalpine indifference. Mafia historian Antonio Nicaso, university professor of organized crime in Canada, closes the circle: "The Nice-Menton-Cannes triangle - he tells La Stampa - has for decades been a territory that falls within the logic of regulatory havens ".

"The mafias, especially the 'Ndrangheta, - continues Nicaso to La Stampa - are attentive to the vulnus, to the places where the laws are less afflictive , where less resistance is encountered ". Here is the key to the choice. "For years, those arrested in France for 416 bis (mafia-type association) were not extradited to Italy because there was not and is not, in my opinion, the political will to address the issue which is expressed in its entirety ontology of rites and myths, when Calabrian clans live on relationships that they create on the spot ." Between seized restaurants , businesses and laboratories for refining cocaine , the 'ndrangheta has chosen the Côte d'Azur for decades to carry out its business. It clings to everything to expand, including new bosses, drug brokers and even freemasons , in the almost total indifference of the French the 'Ndrangheta has now built its new empire and fighting it becomes increasingly more complicated.