There are little more than five pages that the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate dedicates to the province of Vibo Valentia in its usual semi-annual report. The time frame taken into consideration concerns the first six months of 2018. In Vibonese - the dossier reads - the widespread, nefarious influence of the Limbadi local is recorded. Ergo, the Mancuso are still dictating the rules of the game in one of the Italian territory with the highest mafia density. A family, that of the Mancuso, which - according to the Dia - boasts solid alliances with the coasts of Reggio Calabria and those of the plain of Gioia Tauro. The report specifically cites the bomb attack that killed the young Matteo Vinci, an innocent victim of mafia arrogance.

The role of women.The figure of Rosaria Mancuso emerged from the "Demetra" investigation conducted by the Carabinieri and which shed light on the attack by Limbadi. The role of women in the 'ndrangheta vibonese appears to be marked in another investigation that characterized the first half of the investigative activities of the various law enforcement agencies. The Dia cita, among many others, the "Black Widows" operation carried out by the State Police that carried out the arrest of 7 subjects, held responsible, in various capacities, of attempted murder and illegal arms, as authors of the attack on 28 July 2017, in Sorianello, against two brothers. The investigations have allowed to bring back the motive of this ambush to the criminal dynamics in place in the municipalities of Soriano, Sorianello and Gerocarne "... for the conquest of the leadership in the territory between two opposing factions, within the same" local of 'ndrangheta "known as the local dell'Ariola ...". Of absolute importance, once again, of some women of 'ndrangheta (hence the name of the operation) whose role, from the investigation, is returned in all its centrality: sometimes as the instigators of heinous criminal actions, sometimes as accomplices in the concealment and conservation of weapons.