In the morning today BC 43 years of Catanzaro and AS, 39 years, of Locri were captured respectively in Taverna (CZ) and in the German town of Moers, located near Duisburg.

The arrests are placed in the context of the massive inter-force police operation European 'Ndrangheta Connection "performed, in December last year, in Italy and in Northern Europe against over 90 people, with the coordination of Eurojust and the Europol Agency, which has affected, among others, many leading exponents of the mafia families of the Ionic district of the province of Reggio Calabria, revealing the interests of the gangs in intercontinental drug trafficking, money laundering and the re-use of illicit proceeds in the catering sector .

This operation was the fruit of years of intense investigative work carried out in the framework of the Joint Investigation Team set up on 18.10.2016, in The Hague (NL), at Eurojust between the Magistrature and Police Forces of Italy, the Netherlands and Germany.