http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-dive...se-arrete-a-macon-14-06-2019-8093013.phpA big capo of the Calabrian mafia arrested in Mâcon
Giuseppe Cortese, known to be part of the Ndrangheta, was arrested Thursday by the police of the Central Office of fight against organized crime.
Nice trick of the investigators of the National Fugitive Research Brigade (BNRF). A member of the Calabrian mafia, the dreaded Ndrangheta, 53, is presented this Friday morning at the public prosecutor's office in Dijon (Côte d'Or). Giuseppe Cortese was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant, which targeted 31 people, who are members of a network that specializes in the importation of Colombian cocaine.
Everything was done in the utmost secrecy to foil the informants of the mafia, which is infiltrating the police and the entire Italian society. On Tuesday, at 3 am, the Italian police transmit the order to arrest the man at the Central Office of fight against organized crime (OCLCO) in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) and indicate that Giuseppe Cortese, known to be part of this mafia association and specialized in traffic finance, just went to France to go to Switzerland. Thanks to a geolocation of his mobile, the suspect is spotted in Burgundy.
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The investigators of the BNRF notify the judicial police of Dijon, who then locate his Porsche 911 on the side of Mâcon. A team of the research and intervention brigade goes to the parking lot of a modest hotel located in the industrial zone of the city and finds the car. "The officials have discreetly monitored the entrance of the establishment because the rule on the arrest of fugitives is not to attempt anything if we do not see them," said the Parisian source close to the file.
Given to the Italian authorities within 40 days
Thursday morning, Giuseppe Cortese, accompanied by another mafia, leaves the hotel. The police give him no chance and handcuff him. "He did not move at all and was very surprised to see us," said one close friend. When he was put in the car, he did not say a word. "In the next few hours, the mafia will be jailed and handed over to the Italian authorities in the next forty days.
Ndrangheta is one of the criminal organizations that controls a large proportion of cocaine imports into Europe. She is a major interlocutor for South American cartels. And traffickers often have to pay them a fee to work on the European continent.
