The Italian city of Busto Arsizio is located in the extreme south of the province of Varese on the border with the province of Milan. It is the largest city in the densely populated area between Milan and Varese.

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If the current 'Ndrangheta is well identified, it is more difficult to trace its origins and arrival. The oral memory of enthusiasts of the subject speaks of a certain Mario Trifini, nicknamed Gaddafi due to his resemblance to the Libyan dictator, who arrived in these parts in the 1970s with measures of confinement and lieutenant of Luigi Vrenna known as "'u Zirru", an old mafia boss from the Crotone area . He would have been the one to affiliate the well-known names of the place that respond to the names of Vincenzo Rispoli, Mario Filippelli, Mario Murano . The urban legends of Busto Arsizio tell that Trifini wounded in a fire fight would have sewed up the wound by himself .
The coexistence between 'Ndrangheta and Stidda , the Gela mafia very present. The events of Trifini also tell of violent clashes with the Sicilians. Then a pax mafiosa must have taken over among the hegemonic groups. There are twenty thousand Gelesi in Busto , and such a vast presence has allowed the Stidda to take root, a ferocious Sicilian criminal organization autonomous from Cosa Nostra. Check for extortion and arson. Arms were to be sent from Busto Arsizio for an attack on Rosario Crocetta, at the time mayor of Gela and then governor of Sicily . There was no lack of deaths such as that of the Sicilian offender Domenico Scafidi body found the day before Christmas 2004 on a country road between Dairago and Bienate at the gates of Busto Arsizio. With a Skorpion 14 headshots and good night.