Antonio Nicaso presents his new book "When the 'ndrangheta discovered America". ​ 1880 -1956

Once back in Calabria, it will be the «Americans» who impose the new criminal strategy (control of the territory and collusion with politics and institutions) on the organization, starting the process that, in a few decades, will make the 'ndrangheta one of the most powerful mafias and pervasive in the world. After a long research carried out on a vast amount of documents, mostly unpublished, Antonio Nicaso, Maria Barillà and Vittorio Amaddeo reconstruct the history of this criminal mutation of the 'ndrangheta on American soil.

https://eventi.mondadoristore.it/it...ndo-la-ndrangheta-scopri-lamerica-/8162/

^^^^
I bought the e-book this morning. I'll post about the book in the Other Mob Films/Books/TV forum.

A professor at Bocconi, one of Italy’s leading universities, has come under fire for alleged links to the local mafia, police sources have said.

http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/8096

A new TV movie about the Duisburg Massacre !
"Duisburg - Linea di sangue", directed by Enzo Monteleone, is scheduled for prime time on Rai1 on Wednesday 22 May. The film is the story of the evolution of the 'ndrangheta phenomenon and of the internal struggles for power regulated by bloody family feuds, feuds that can last for years, striking the victims always during the holidays, as tradition has it, so that the revenge will be unforgettable . But it is also the story of two policemen wishing for justice and social redemption who manage to flush out the criminals and cancel this bloodline, which like a red trail seems to mark a territory taken from the State.

http://chronicle.gi/2019/05/crackdown-drug-trafficking-puts-strain-spanish-law-enforcement/


Crackdown on drug trafficking puts strain on Spanish law enforcement

https://www.securingindustry.com/fo...n-italy-germany/s104/a9853/#.XN_yKshKhPY

Police bust major fake olive oil ring in Italy, Germany

Late yesterday evening, just before midnight, an ambush - with at least thirty shots fired - occurred at Nao di Ionadi, a town on the outskirts of Vibo Valentia. The target was Domenico Signoretta, 45 years old, considered by the investigators the armourer of the boss Pantaleone Mancuso, called "the Engineer", captured in Argentina in 2015 and since last June in an Italian prison after the declarations of his son Emanuele, a collaborator of justice. Domenico Signoretta, under house arrest, was in the courtyard of his home when at his address over thirty pistol and rifle shots were fired from which he miraculously emerged unscathed.

A mafia consortia was busted in Rome. 18 arrests for drugs and weapons linked to the ´ndrangheta, SCU, Casamonicas and even a prominent figure among the ultras of SS Lazio.

The repentant Rocco Marando retracted the previous depositions at the appeal trial, underway in Turin, for a 'ndrangheta feud with four murders dating back to 1997/98. The man was heard today in the courtroom. Crimes, according to investigators, were part of the rivalry between two families involved in drug trafficking. The defendants are five. Judged by the judges there is the ambush aimed at the first of June 1997 to Antonio and Antonino Stefanelli and to their driver Francesco Mancuso (the bodies were never found) and the next one, of 30 January 1998, to Roberto Romeo.

Uncovered a 'ndrangheta bunker in Aspromonte: it opened with a mechanical device
In Aspromonte another bunker of the 'ndrangheta appears. The police found it in Platì

https://video.repubblica.it/cronaca...n-un-dispositivo-meccanico/335510/336109

In the port of Barcelona, ​​the Spanish National Police seized 5,000 kilos of cocaine this week. The shipments were packed in three containers. Six people were arrested, all working in the port.
The first container contained 643 kilos of coke and the second 2,443 kilos. Follow-up research on the Spanish evacuation team yielded another link to a third container that contained 2,000 kilos.
According to the police, suspects who worked for a port company caused cocaine containers to be moved to less secure locations.
There have been searches in seven places where 27,370 euros in cash, six vehicles, pgp telephones and computers have been seized.
The “Livorno” investigation started in January 2019 in collaboration with the Italian Guardia de Finanza and with the Colombian authorities, after information was received about setting up a major transport to Barcelona.

The Sicilians and ndrangheta have so many different families but are so organized. Why can’t the Camorra follow their lead?

They don´t need to, but through the years the Camorra has always passed through structural transformations.

Police arrested 35 members of the 'Ndrangheta 'locale' based in the town of San Leonardo di Cutro (Crotone) led by the boss Alfonso Mannolo on charges of mafia association, drug trafficking, extortions, loansharking and illegal possession of weapons.

There are some families that are as organized as any other family. The casalesi, nuvolettas etc.

In 1992 Carmine Alfieri attempted to construct a unitary organization, according to Sicilian plan. He named that new organization
“Nuova Mafia Campana” (New Campania Mafia).
According to the Anti-Mafia committee, “The Nuova Mafia was more aspiration than realization”.

https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch...tains-35-suspected-mafiosi-seizes-assets

Italian Police detains 35 suspected mafiosi, Seizes Assets

What family is the gold standard in Sicily would it be the cuntrera-caruana? They clearly had a lot of money and power in both Italy and Venezuela. Had strong ties to the ndrangheta too.

Police arrested 28 people across Italy and Germany; the San Luca clans produced marijuana in the Aspromonte in order to sell it in the central region of Lazio, several plantantions worth million euros were seized. The organization had intensively and industrially structured the production of marijuana, creating irrigated fields, hidden by vegetation and monitored with video recording systems, to then take care of the transport and marketing.

Mafia threats and sexting: Two Italian priests face trial over ‘Ndrangheta claims http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...-two-italian-priests-face-trial-over-ndr

Organogram of the Calabrian mafia based on Operazione Crimine 2010 and DIA 2012.

link

https://twitter.com/DAProcopio1/status/1134528754594865153

May 31,2019 :Ndrangheta clans

You never hear about the families in Sinopoli and Delianuova except some of them in Canada.

Did Canada still answer back to the ndrangheta or were they completely independent?

I think the groups in Australia and Canada are more or less independent.

What did you think of the recent developments with the Piscopisani clan trying to oust the Mancusos from Vibo Valentia?

In particular, the fact that they had backing from the Commissos, the Aquinos, Tripodi and other clans.

I saw this, and was kinda surprised to see them exercise this level of influence DIRECTLY in Calabria....

Did not know this. I have heard from people on here that the Mancusos are one of the stronger families too so that is surprising to hear.

@Cabrini very interesting emerging group until 2018/2019 they flew pretty much under the radar. The Locale of Piscopio or Society of Piscopio, sometimes also called Clan of the piscopisani is a criminal organization belonging to the 'ndrangheta and born in 2009 or 2010 in the Piscopio fraction of Vibo Valentia and is operative in the Vibonese area in particular at Piscopio and Stefanaconi, in the province of Bologna and in the city of Palermo.
They established links with the international cocaine broker Vincenzo Barbieri, one of the leading cocaine importers in Europe from South America, killed in March 2011.
The group is mostly composed of young elements ready to take the crime scene in the province together with other clans, all united by the desire to oust from power the powerful family of Mancuso of Limbadi.

The Ndrangheta has clans that operate in Palermo?

https://youtu.be/-6tppkEkigk

I have been trying to watch this video but I can’t find a way to translate the subtitles to English. Seems interesting.