Zhang Naizhong is a major player throughout Europe.

Chinese couple killed in Rome in Prato-based Triad war
Man linked to Chinese Mob boss
ROME, 15 April 2025, 16:15

ANSA English Desk
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AChinese couple were shot dead in Rome Monday night as a Triads war based in Prato spilled over into the Italian capital, Italian police said.
At least six gunshots were fired late Monday evening iagainst the couple in via Prenestina, near the Pigneto district of the Italian capital, police said.
The pair were returning home by bike when, a few meters from the building where they lived, the killers approached on a motorcycle and opened fire.
The victims were hit in the back of the head.
Prosecutors in the Tuscan city of Prato, which has Italy's largest Chinese community specialising in textile making, said that the war of Chinese organized crime for the monopoly of logistics in the clothing sector, which in the last two or three years has resulted in the so-called 'war of the hangers' of Prato, is likely the backdrop for the shooting death of the pair, Zhang Dayong, 53, and his wife Gong Xiaoqing, 38.
The double homicide could well be a revenge killing, the prosecutors said, that arose in the same context of Chinese crime in Italy, where the escalation could demonstrate that structures consolidated for decades are now being shaken.
The two victims, according to what is being reconstructed, were linked to the context of the fight between 'cartels' which at this point is being fought openly throughout Europe, starting from the textile district of Prato which is its epicenter.
In particular, the murdered man, nicknamed Asheng, had been one of the main defendants in the 2018 'China Truck' investigation, coordinated by the magistrates of the DDA anti-mafia directorate of Florence, on the activity of Chinese trafficking gangs especially in the field of clothing linked to logistics in Prato.
The investigation revealed the presence in the Tuscan city of top figures, throughout Europe, of the Chinese mafia, connected to the mother country.
Finally, it was stressed that Zhang Dayong was one of the closest collaborators of a central figure in these Tuscan investigations into Chinese criminal feuds, namely the boss Zhang Naizhong, considered at the top of the organization that now, since 2024, appears to be under attack.
In recent months there has been a criminal escalation in Prato with violence, assaults with attempted murders, and arson attacks on companies in Tuscany and also in Madrid and Paris.