ROME - Italy is preparing a package of measures aimed at modernising the country’s anti-mafia law after the murder of six Italians in Germany last week, its justice minister said in an interview.
“We are in the process of drawing up new standards, new preventive measures, on the confiscation of goods and monitoring illicit funds,” Justice Minister Clemente Mastella told the Italian daily Il Messaggero.
The measures come after the murder of six Italians last Wednesday in the western city of Duisburg, Germany.
The Italian authorities have attributed the killings to an internal feud within the notoriously violent ’Ndrangheta clan, one of the country’s best known crime families.
Mastella said the government would reveal the proposals in October. But he said they included mandatory judicial investigations into assets held by suspected mafiosi, and the training of special judicial police teams to head up investigations.
“We are trying to modernise anti-mafia laws,” he added.
The ’Ndrangheta, once seen as a relatively minor outfit, had annual assets totalling 40 billion euros (54 billion dollars), property on five continents and occasional investments in the Frankfurt stock market, said Mastella.
International action against the mafia, particularly in Europe, needed to be stepped up, he said.

the thing is i cant see it really making a difference the mafia have had years of law enforcement trying to break them and yes they have been on the verge of breaking down families before but they always come back and they do seem to learn from there mistakes well sometimes anyway ;).

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