The Bologna prosecutor's office is investigating an import chain of Italian workers in Belgium. Masons and carpenters were exploited and racketed for the benefit of a mafia clan.

The Grande Aracri clan captured about a third of workers' wages. The chief leaders have been in detention since 25 June. On 25 June, the Italian carabinieri landed in several pavilions in the region of Emilia Romagna. Purpose of Operation Grimilde: To search and arrest several members of the Grande Aracri clan, a family already convicted in the past for belonging to 'Ndrangheta.

16 people were arrested in connection with an investigation of a whole range of illegal activities in towns south of the Po: Piacenza, Parma and Brescello.