http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-mafia-into-switzerland-and-9695295.html

Footage from secret meeting reveals spread of Calabrian ’Ndrangheta Mafia into Switzerland and Germany

While very interesting, this article is old news..

It's amazing how they still have big meetings while under surveillance.

that's one gangster photo. reminds me of when the waiter had the button camera snapping shots when Tony promoted Uncle Junior to Acting Boss

In this case they also used waiters.

Maxi-operation against the ‘Ndrangheta in Reggio Calabria and Florence: with 41 arrests and seizures to a value of 120 million euros.

Same here, I even could hear Tony & co. say: ''To Junior!!'' with 'Paparazzi' on the background.. That was one epic scene, maybe the best episode ending of the series..

Some 120 mln euros seized, 41 arrested in anti-mafia operations in Italy

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/19/c_136985744.htm

http://www.turkeytelegraph.com/world/the-ndrangheta-bleeds-calabria-h15806.html

The ' Ndrangheta bleeds Calabria

https://www.theguardian.com/global-...trafficking-drug-devastation-brazil-poor


Could it be possible that the Ndrangheta totally controls the cocaine in Santos? I mean afterall Sao Paulo/Santos is the city with the most italians in the world. 6 million italians i think, that makes it possible for Italian mafia to run things over there, even thou the Brazilian gangs are fucked up. Much of Europes cocaine comes from the pot of Santos i think they were saying like 80 %

The investigation Passo di salto (referred to as Passo del salto in some articles) targeted the cosche of Pizzata, Pelle of San Luca, and Marina di Gioiosa Ionica -- the last is the town from where a number of Siderno Group members in the Greater Toronto Area have ancestry, but I don't recognize any familiar surnames from the list of those investigaged.

Links to Italian-language articles:

Operazione “Passo di salto”, Gratteri elogia l’operato delle Forze dell’Ordine
https://www.oggisud.it/cronaca/cron...elogia-l-operato-delle-forze-dell-ordine

Operazione 'Passo di Salto', ecco i nomi
http://bit.ly/2FftUKN

Operazione “Passo di Salto”, dal pentito Mirarchi rivelazioni cruciali
https://www.secondopianonews.it/cal...ntito-mirarchi-rivelazioni-cruciali.html

https://thewomenjournal.com/2018/02...ar-to-break-the-ruthless-code-of-mafias/

Alessandra Cerreti’s Tough War to Break the Ruthless Code of Mafias

http://www.adnkronos.com/fatti/poli...-piu-potente_DL9zdiKgmZtcwZV4TzqH1M.html

"'Ndrangheta is the most powerful mafia"

Published the: 2/21/2018 17:22

"Even if some areas are more welcoming and attractive than others, no territory can be considered more immune" from the conditioning of the 'ndrangheta. It is a " deep and uniform movement that affects the majority of the northern provinces, with a particular intensity in Lombardy , and which has been favored until recent times by widespread attitudes of underestimation and removal". It is the parliamentary anti-mafia commission to underline, in the final report, that "the colonization" ndranghetista has established itself in a leopard spot with a particular predilection for the minor municipalities ".

The Mafia method "is not used only to alter the competition and pollute the legal economy.Those investigations have involved local administrations in varying degrees, signaling worrying episodes of corruption in the public administration and politics, with which the mafias they relate with extreme open-mindedness and without making differences between political parties and political parties, as also confirmed by the various dissolution that in recent years have affected the northern municipalities: Bordighera and Ventimiglia (later both canceled by administrative justice) in the province of Imperia in 2011, Leinì and Rivarolo Canavese (TO) in 2012, Sedriano (MI) in 2013, Brescello (RE) in 2016 and, finally, Lavagna (GE) in 2017 ".

Long undervalued and wrongly considered a subordinated and backward mafia, the 'ndrangheta "is today the richest, most aggressive and powerful criminal organization, deeply rooted in Calabria, where it has a suffocating control of the territory and economic and public activities. administration, has settled in all the regions of the country, even if with different degrees of penetration, and also shows a marked transnational profile ".

A world leader in drug trafficking, "has privileged, if not exclusive, relations with the main drug traffickers in Central and South America, and is the organization that has best exploited the opportunities of globalization".

MAFIA - The "phase of submersion" of our "following the defeat of the Corleone, subversive and stragista mafia, and the absence of an active leader, which resulted in the absence of a unified strategy, have not affected the criminal potential of our own thing, that despite the incessant action of the police and the magistracy shows an extraordinary capacity for regeneration ", reads the final report.

"Cosa Nostra is vital in every Sicilian province: in these years the organization has maintained control of the territory and still enjoys broad consensus, and still largely exercises its capacity for intimidation which still corresponds, conversely, the silence of the victims . the death of Toto Riina, paradoxically, is another current source of strength . Cosa Nostra - says the report - is in fact free to ridarsi a central decision-making body, and then a common strategy, until now hindered by a leader who, in jail for life in 41-bis, he could neither command nor could he be replaced, so the transition phase that has formally opened and will probably undergo a short-term acceleration will be carefully monitored ".

CAMORRA - The intense repressive activity of recent years, which saw the decline of historic clans like that of the Casalesi, "has accentuated the fragmentation and atomization of the Camorra but has not affected its aggression.A criminal reality, difficult to frame in a unitary definition, which never before appears strong and dynamic, with extensive control of the regional territory, a close relationship with the politics and institutions of some areas, a vast national and international projection, where it plays a leading role in the market world of drugs and distribution networks ". The Report underlines the phenomenon "of the increasingly widespread and dangerously active youth gangs, especially in Naples,. Even the chambers showed an evolutionary process towards a more accentuated entrepreneurial vocation ".

The report then extensively describes the evolution of the Pugliese mafias , developing the analysis "on the plural territorial mafia that, in Puglia, sees from the one extreme of the region what remains of the sacred united crown, but also of the Bari mafia, with its marked resemblance to the Neapolitan Camorra, and above all the violent Foggian and Gargano mafias, which in this phase represent for their ferocity the element of greatest danger, as well as a metaphor of the long underestimation that allowed them to grow ".

The first coke seizure of 2018 in the port of Gioia Tauro, 74kg on the market it would have yielded over 14 million euros. In 2017, the numerous seizures of "coca" made at the port was in total just under 2 tons.

whose more powerful in Italy - Camorra or Ndrangheta?

The Ndrangheta, it controls most of the cocaine in europe and has a more extensive global reach than that of the Camorra.

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20769558/kuciak-investigated-links-between-politicians-and-mafia.html

Kuciak investigated links between politicians and mafia

Calabrian Mafia boss serving multiple life sentences for murder granted furlough to visit his dying mother http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...ing-multiple-life-sentences-for-murder-g

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...igating-political-links-to-italian-mafia

Summary of last work by Ján Kuciak, shot dead with fiancée, focuses on ‘Ndrangheta ties

Torino, sequestrati beni della ‘ndrangheta di Gioiosa Ionica

https://www.ciavula.it/2018/03/torino-sequestrati-beni-gioiosa/

I just read a different article about this murder from the Guardian. This is some McMafia shit here, truly globalized organized crime..

Very sad for the journalist his family. This is going to create enormous backlash and might do the perpetrators more harm than good..

'Seven Italians' arrested over Slovak reporter's murder
'Entrepreneur Vadalà with brother, cousin, 4 others'

(ANSA) - Bratislava, March 1 - Slovak police have arrested Italian entrepreneur Antonino Vadalà together with his brother and cousin and four other Italian men in connection with the murder of investigative reporter Jan Kuciak and his fiancée, sources said Thursday.
According to local media reports, Vadalà on Thursday morning was arrested with his brother Bruno and cousin Pietro Catroppa as part of police operations targeting two of the entrepreneur's apartments in Michalovce and Trebisov in eastern Slovakia.
Seven Italians were arrested in connection with Kuciak's murder, during searches at Michalovce and Trebisov, Slovak police said. Police chief Tibor Gaspar said the seven were arrested "as suspects, with the agreement of the prosecutor".
All the arrested are Italians: as well as prime suspect Antonino Vadalà and his relatives Sebastiano Vadalà and Bruno Vadalà, Gaspar named the others as Diego Roda, Antonio Roda, Pietro Catroppa, 54, and Pietro Catroppa, 26.
Murdered journalist Kuciak, 27, had reported for the news site Aktuality.sk on fraud cases, often involving businessmen and politicians.
Kuciak had in particular investigated the Vadalà family and its alleged ties with the international crime syndicate of Calabrian origin, 'Ndrangheta. The newspaper he worked for published the report on Wednesday.
Kuciak and his fiancée, also 27, were found dead on Sunday at his home in Velka Maca, 65km east of the capital Bratislava.
Italian police alerted Slovak police and international bodies "some time ago" on the the group of Calabrians arrested in the eastern European country on Thursday, judicial sources said on Thursday.
Anti-mafia prosecutors in Reggio Calabria "officially brought to the attention of the international police organs and the Slovakian national police the need to monitor the activities of the group of Calabrians arrested because they are suspected of being involved in the murder of the young journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend," a statement said.
Acting Reggio Calabria Chief Prosecutor Gaetano Paci told ANSA his office had also supplied information about the trio's alleged links to the Calabria-based crime organisation 'Ndrangheta.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/201...947f32d-0f04-4615-92ce-85ed620c9786.html

Buzzfeed: A Powerful Italian Mob Yo...der Of A Journalist And His Girlfriend

This story and the Calabrian connection getting in the international media. Interesting! Wonder if it'll lead to a huge crackdown on the Ndrangheta?

In order to crack down the Ndrangheta in a huge way they need to do it in Italy. And there the Ndrangheta is no news, they have been known there for a while now. Thats my opinion

Yesterday a woman killed her husband while he was sleeping after a fight in their home in Castellace di Oppido Mamertina (Reggio Calabria). The Carabinieri arrested Maria Giuseppina Barca, a 63-year-old, for murder. She was accused of having killed Rocco Cutri ', a 70-year-old, who was close to the' Ndrangheta. The victim was known to the carabinieri for the proximity to the "Alvaro-Violi-Macri" gang, he was the father-in-law of Carmine Alvaro, 65, called" u cuvertuni ".
There were long grudges and disagreements caused by the death of the couple's son, Domenico, who was killed in Sinopoli in 2008 at the height of a dispute.

The gangs of 'ndrangheta of the vibonese had entered into business with the Albanian narcos, considered by the investigators the main producers of marijuana on the continent, skipping the intermediation of the Puglian mafia, historically in business with drug traffickers of the country of the Eagle, managing to contract the importation in less than three months of 5 tons of marijuana for a value of 10 million euros. This is what emerged from the "Stammer 2-Melina" investigation that this morning led to the arrest of 25 people - 18 in prison and 7 at home - between Calabria, Puglia, Sicily, Lazio, Tuscany, Lombardy and Albania.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article...murder-while-italians-rage-over-migrants

The mafia is getting away with murder while Italians rage over migrants

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...rest-senior-mafia-figure-wanted-by-italy

German Police Arrest Senior Mafia Figure Wanted by Italy

Third world immigration to Italy and the rest of Western Europe is occurring at replacement levels. It is unprecedented in the whole of human history, and poses an existential threat to the survival of indigenous European peoples. And VICE is an organ of Leftist, globalist propaganda.

By contrast, the mafia, though it certainly has blighted the economy and culture of the Italian South, does not pose imperil the historical survival of the people.

https://news.sky.com/story/mafia-ge...lling-of-journalist-and-fiancee-11273703

'Mafia get out': Thousands protests in Slovakia over killing of journalist and fiancee

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/...about-the-calabrian-mafia/article/516307

Five things to know about the Calabrian mafia