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BIZARRE: Ndrangheta - What They Never Told You

Mafia law gives Italian families right to break free from life of crime

Wives and children offered new identities to try to stop gangsters recruiting down the generations

The Guardian - UK

The revamped hiking trail regenerating an Italian region blighted by mafia stereotypes

Il Sentiero dell’Inglese – the Trail of the Englishman – is bringing new hope to Calabria’s Aspromonte mountains in southern Italy, one of the EU’s most marginal and economically depressed areas.

The Conversation

Hollywood and the mafia myth: how Italian organised crime went global

The Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the Camorra in Naples and the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria – by far the most powerful, but also the least known – are Italy’s three main mafia groups. In an interview with RFI, French criminologist, economist and mafia specialist Clotilde Champeyrache paints a picture of misunderstood…

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AC Milan, Inter Ultras Arrested For Alleged Organised Crime Offences

Hardcore supporters of AC Milan and Inter Milan were arrested on Monday for alleged organised crime offences as part of a probe into illegal profits made around matches and the infiltration of mafia gangs into so-called "ultras" groups.

International Business Times

Italian police arrest 19 people in massive probe targeting mafia links to Milan soccer 'ultra' fans

Italian police have arrested 19 people accused of criminal ties with the powerful ’Ndrangheta mafia group

The Independent UK

‘These kids are violent, drunk on power’: can mafia children be saved from a life of crime?

Meet the judge taking mini mafiosi away from their families to see if he can break the cycle

The Guardian - UK

‘Family connections’: mafia, the fruit and veg trade, and a fatal shooting in suburban Melbourne

Calabrian-Australian families like that of John Latorre, who was killed this week, are synonymous with the fresh produce sector – but some have connections to the ’Ndrangheta too

The Guardian - AU

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Italian tribunal sentences more than 200 in crime syndicate

An Italian tribunal convicted 207 people on charges related to their membership in an Italian crime syndicate that is one of the world's most powerful, extensive and wealthy drug-trafficking groups.

WEKU

More than 200 convicted in Italy mafia trial – with sentences totalling more than 2,100 years in jail

Defendants had been charged with crimes that include drug and arms trafficking, extortion and association with the ’ndrangheta organised crime syndicate

The Independent UK

Over 200 gang members sentenced to total of 2,100 years in jail after huge Italian mafia trial

Italy's 'Ndrangheta organised crime syndicate is one of the world's most powerful

Evening Standard

More than 200 mobsters convicted in historic Italian mafia trial

An Italian tribunal on Monday convicted 207 people and sentenced them to a combined 2,100 years in prison on charges related to their membership in Italy’s ’ndrangheta organized crime syndicate, one of the world’s most powerful, extensive and wealthy drug-trafficking groups.

France 24

More than 200 people convicted in Italian mafia ‘maxi trial’

Specially built courtroom in Calabria heard evidence of ruthless tactics of ’Ndrangheta crime syndicate

The Guardian - UK

Verdicts are expected in Italy's maxi-trial involving the 'ndrangheta crime syndicate

Verdicts are expected Monday in the trial of hundreds of people accused of membership in Italy’s ’ndrangheta organized crime syndicate

The Independent UK

Dozens held in Italian mafia crackdown

MILAN: Dozens of people have been arrested in a new police raid against the ‘Ndrangheta mafia that has revealed how its multiple illegal activities have spread as far as Austria and Germany, Italian authorities said on Tuesday.

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The Conversation

The Good Mothers: Disney's groundbreaking drama tries to tell the stories of women in the mafia but important pieces of the puzzle are missing

The music accompanying the opening titles of the new Disney+ series The Good Mothers is a lullaby in the Calabrian dialect:

Reuters

In mafia drug raids, 25 arrested in Italy, Belgium, Germany

Authorities have arrested 25 people in Italy, Belgium and Germany in pan-European raids linked to an alleged drug- trafficking ring run by the 'Ndrangheta mafia, Italian police said on Monday.

Daily Mirror

Meet the brave wives and daughters who spoke out to bring down ruthless Italian mafia

Nothing could stop what was one of most powerful criminal organisations in the world, no one would dare touch them - or so they believed

WEKU

Germany and Italy clamp down on Italian mob with raids and arrests

The police operation, coordinated by European Union judicial cooperation agency Eurojust, aimed to dismantle a network that includes the 'ndrangheta, Colombian drug producers and paramilitary groups.

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The Independent UK

More than 100 arrested in mafia crackdown across Europe

Majority of raids in Italy and Germany as part of campaign against the Calabria-based ‘ndrangheta

Reuters

The 'Ndrangheta: Italy's most powerful mafia group

Italy's 'Ndrangheta has supplanted Sicily's Cosa Nostra as the country's most powerful mafia organisation, and has spread across Europe and the rest of the world. Here are a few facts about the fearsome group.

The Guardian - UK

Police detain 130 in raids across Europe targeting ’Ndrangheta mafia

Raids form part of three-year investigation into crime syndicate controlling cocaine flow into Europe

The Independent UK

Germany, Italy clamp down on Italian mob with raids, arrests

Police have arrested suspects and raided homes across Germany and Italy in a massive effort to clamp down on member of the Italian ’ndrangheta organized crime syndicate

Reuters

European police arrest more than 100 mafia suspects in drug crackdown

Police across Europe arrested more than 100 people on Wednesday in a massive crackdown that targeted the Italian 'Ndrangheta mafia, with suspects accused of drugs and weapons trafficking with counterparts in Latin America.

Radio France Internationale

French court agrees to extradition of fugitive Italian mafia assassin

A French court has agreed to the extradition to Italy of Edgardo Greco a convicted murderer, suspected of being a member of the powerful ‘Ndrangheta Calabrian mafia, who was arrested in France in February after 16 years on the run.

Radio France Internationale

Italy asks France to extradite fugitive Italian mafia killer

Italy has asked France to hand over a convicted killer believed to belong to one of Italy's most powerful mafia organisations. Edgardo Greco was arrested in France a month ago after 16 years on the run.

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