In Calabria they always use The Hunters squadron, the Carabinieri are military police anyway.

Yeah well, then it’s the first time I see the “Cacciatori di Calabria” wearing Kevlar helmets matched with camouflaged gear. I’ve always seen footage of them wearing berets and regolar non-foreign war attire. During the recent prison riots, after some mobsters managed to escape, the “Cacciatori” were on it and none looked like they were about to go on patrol in Kandahar.

I’m not against it, the safer they are the better.

Yeah they wear the famous red berets more often, but sometimes it's necessary to wear full gear in particular during the night.

There is also the name of Francesco Ventrici on the list of 376 prisoners released for the Covid emergency and sent to house arrest because they have pathologies that would have endangered their life in case of coronavirus infection. Ventrici, 48 year old from San Calogero, Vibo Valentia, is one of the main cocaine brokers in Europe.

Carmine Alvaro (Sinopoli), Sebastiano Giorgi (San Luca), Rocco Morabito (Africo) and Demetrio Serraino (Reggio Calabria) have also been released.

Barbaro Family member on the run as fugitive in Australia....

https://aboutthemafia.com/manhunt-underway-for-ricky-barbaro-over-the-death-of-ellie-price

The video that frames the boss of the 'ndrangheta: the exchange of pizzini to command from prison
Pizzini passed to the children during the interviews, meetings with other bosses of the 'ndrangheta taking advantage of the visits of family members in prison, messages sent outside: here are the videos that frame Antonio Agresta of Volpiano, boss of the' ndrangheta in the North and detained under «High Security» in Turin.

https://video.lastampa.it/torino/il...per-comandare-dal-carcere/114337/114354?

COSCHE IN CRISIS
In Calabria the 'ndrangheta bosses trapped by "traitor" children
by Arcangelo Badolati - May 10, 2020

The "traitor" children. Never in the 'Ndrangheta would anyone have imagined that children would deny their fathers. That the offspring grown on bread and lead would have emptied the sack causing brothers, cousins, uncles and aunts to get in trouble, violating the inviolable principle of mafia silence that has always governed the things of organized crime in Calabria. And instead, in recent years, it has happened several times. Historical gangs of the most powerful mafia of the Old Continent entered into crisis discovering that the designated heir of the capobastone was incredibly emptying the sack with the magistrates and that his "cantatas" did not spare even the "august" parent.

The last to launch into the arms of the state is Dante Mannolo, male descendant of Alfonso Mannolo, charismatic character of the 'ndrina di San Leonardo di Cutro. Finished behind bars, the son of the feared and respected "Don Alfonso" did not hesitate to break the delivery of silence and tell all he knew just to leave that hell of bars, gates and chains in which the Dda di Catanzaro, directed from Nicola Gratteri, he had sent it. Trafficking, crimes, extortion, relations with politics and even "adjustments" of processes: Dante spoke about everything with the anti-mafia prosecutors Paolo Sirleo and Domenico Guarascio. Nobody in the "kingdom" that was of Nicolino Grande Aracri would have imagined such a catastrophe. Before him, a few kilometers away, two years ago, another "son of art" had started to make the "infamous": Francesco Farao,

As he, on the other side of the region, would have done, a year later, Emanuele Mancuso, of Limbadi, heir of Pantaleone Mancuso, first-rate star of Vibonese crime and known by all as "the engineer". None of the Mancusos had ever "betrayed" the family led by "Zi Luigi", who has recently been re-arrested as part of the extraordinary "Rinascita-Scott" maxi investigation. The last three singing "scions" went to keep company with Giuseppe Giampà, from Lamezia Terme, son of Francesco Giampà, intended as "the professor", superboss of the central area of ​​Calabria. Joseph has been repentant for five years now and is guilty of many blood events. In Cosenza, last year, the son of one of the historical leaders of nomadic crime has also chosen to collaborate with justice: his name is Celestino Abbruzese and everyone has always called him "kitten". His father, Fioravante, is serving final convictions for murder.

In the past, however, it was Pino Scriva, in the 1980s, who left the world of 'Ndrangheta, putting aside the history of his family which, on the other hand, he had long counted in the Plain of Gioia Tauro. After him, in the 1990s, it was Antonio Zagari, son of the Varese boss, Giacomo (originally from Rosarno) who revealed the secrets of the 'ndrine in Lombardy to the magistrates of the DDA of Milan. Then came a woman, Giusy Pesce, becoming the first repentant of a family never touched by direct "collaborations" with the robes.

Dear Friends,
here is the link:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TiQsmtGmEgqzlwjjsCYU13ThbrmXB4bK

to my last, unpublished paper, title: “‘Ndrangheta in Great Toronto Area: the latest developments of its governing body”.
It's the continuation of my previous one, published here:

https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profi...onto-area-canada-hit-but-still-too-power

I hope of your interest.

There's always something with the Barbaro's, since their grandfather became a turncoat an was shot dead in 1990.

Drug deals between Naples and Calabria, the role of the 'ndrangheta in the fratricidal war of the Camorra

https://calabria.gazzettadelsud.it/...ra-ba0d4c91-6e49-4085-b5bc-ba678c92b5fc/

They caught him!

https://aboutthemafia.com/ricardo-barbaro-arrested-after-a-10-day-manhunt

'Ndrangheta: unpublished revelations of the repentant Arena against the Piscopisani clan

https://www.ilvibonese.it/cronaca/69554-ndrangheta-vibo-piscopio-bartolomeo-arena-rimpiazzo-mancuso/

according to what he said it seems to open a ndrangheta locale is by far easier than a cosa nostra family

41 bis to the boss of Legnano Vincenzo Rispoli. The hard prison order was notified to the head of the Leganese 'locale'. Rispoli from Livorno, who is in the prison of Tolmezzo in Friuli Venezia Giulia has been the subject of numerous investigations into the 'Ndrangheta for years . Investigations which revealed his role as the boss of the 'ndrangheta.
A leader who would have been recognized as such not only by the 'ndrine of the area, but also and above all at the regional and interregional level. Bad Boys, Inifinito, Crime and Krimisa are the names of the main operations of the police that have seen the fifty-seven year old involved in the last eleven years. Eight of whom spent in prison. In 2017 Rispoli had returned to freedom in Legnano,where he also opened a fruit and vegetable shop. But where he had also begun, according to investigators, to make his power felt in the violent ways that would have distinguished him.

Carmine Alvaro, a leading expression of the Sinopoli clan of the same name, is back in prison, among the 498 prisoners for mafia and serious crimes ended up at home since the coronavirus emergency began. Sixty-one years old, but suffering from various pathologies, he had been considered among the subjects statistically at risk in case of contagion by Covid19, for this reason on April 21 last the judges had sent him back to "his" Sinopoli, with the absolute ban on having contacts with anyone who was not one of the cohabiting family members. Not even twenty-four hours later, Alvaro was caught violating the prescriptions.

Contracts rigged in Reggio, agreement between bosses, entrepreneurs and public managers: 19 suspects

External competition in association of the mafia type, criminal association aimed at disrupting the auction, as well as fictitious header - aggravated by the mafia method - corruption, environmental crimes and abuse of office. These are the crimes contested by 19 suspects in Reggio Calabria who received the provision of "Notice of conclusion of preliminary investigations".

The police operation - called "Rupes" - is based on the results of the investigations conducted by the Gico GICO of the Economic and Financial Police Unit of Reggio Calabria, against "colluded" entrepreneurs with representatives of the city gangs and corrupt public officials who, by associating between them, they determined favorably - between 2009 and 2013 - for companies attributable to subjects contiguous to the families "Condello", "Libri", "Tegano", as well as "Paviglianiti" of San Lorenzo and "Iamonte" of Melito di Porto Salvo , the results of various tenders for public works.

Carmine Il Grande , 61 years old, alleged boss of Parghelia, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for mafia association in the process born from the "Costa Pulita" operation of the DDA of Catanzaro, returns in total freedom. Il Grande is considered one of the main exponents of the Vibonese 'ndrangheta and one of the main condemned in the Costa Pulita trial.

There are 101 exponents of the 'ndrangheta, organic to the major gangs of the province of Reggio Calabria, with different hierarchical roles within them, who have requested and obtained the citizenship income.

Among them, also prominent exponents of the best known families of 'ndrangheta operating in the plain of Gioia Tauro or the powerful ndrine of the Tegano and Serraino families. Others, on the other hand, are capibastone of the major gangs of Locride, including the 'ndrina Commisso-Rumbo-Figliomeni of Siderno, the' ndrina Cordì of Locri, the 'ndrina Manno-Maiolo of Caulonia and the' ndrina D'Agostino di Canolo.

Even the children of the "Italian Pablo Escobar", known to the "cronies" of the 'ndrangheta as "Baby", Roberto Pannunzi , unanimously considered by Italian and American investigators as one of the world's largest cocaine brokers and who boasted of weigh the money instead of counting it, they are among the undue earners of the measure.

One of them, the eldest son Alessandro, in addition to being married to the daughter of one of the world's largest Colombian cocaine producers, was also definitively condemned for the importation of several tons of narcotic drug into Italy.

Operation Mala Civitas shows over 100 ‘Ndrangheta bosses and members collected welfare cheques http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...ows-over-100-ndrangheta-bosses-and-membe

Dozens arrested in 'Ndrangheta contract-rigging case
'Criminal cartel' of businessmen, public officials across Italy

(ANSA) - Rome, May 28 - Italian police on Thursday carried out dozens of arrests across Italy against a "criminal cartel" composed of businessmen and public officials that allegedly rigged contracts in favour of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia. The probe targeted "the business and entrepreneurial profiles" of the Piromallis, a clan operating in the Piana di Gioia Tauro. Finance guards also seized assets and companies worth some 103 million euros.
Some 500 finance guards sprang into action in Calabria, in the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Catanzaro, Cosenza and Vibo Valentia, in Sicily between Messina, Palermo, Trapani and Agrigento, in Campania - at Benevento and Avellino - in Milan and Brescia in Lombardy, as well as in Alessandria, Gorizia, Pisa, Bologna and Rome.
'Operation Waterfront' netted functionaries of the motorway maintenance group ANAS and municipal technicians, who were among those who steered contracts worth over 100 million euros into the hands of the Piromallis.
An MP for the opposition League party, Domenico Furgiuele, was placed under investigation for suspected complicity in bid rigging in the probe.
'Ndrangheta is Italy's richest and most powerful mafia, controlling the European cocaine trade.

Three indictments for an "excellent" ambush that on 9 July 2003 risked disrupting, more than they were at the time, the internal structures of the powerful Mancuso gang in Limbadi and sowing chaos.

For the attempted murder of the boss Ciccio Mancuso (aka Tabacco), 63 years of Limbadi and for the murder of his lieutenant Raffaele Fiamingo, 44 years of Rombiolo (known as Lele the Viking), next 14 July - as ordered by the gup District - the 71-year-old boss Cosmo Mancuso (called Michelina or Cannuni) must appear before the judges of the Assize Court of Catanzaro ; Antonio Prenesti (aka Yo-yo), 54 years of Nicotera, and Domenico Salvatore Polito , 56 years of Vibo.

Cosmo Mancuso would have come into conflict with his nephew Ciccio Mancuso and hence the decision to ambush him while he was in the company of his "shoulder guard" Raffaele Fiammingo.

'Ndrangheta in Veneto, the hands of the Arena-Nicoscia gang on Verona: 23 arrests for mafia association, fraud, money laundering, extortion, drug trafficking, corruption and other crimes. An autonomous structure but attributable to the Arena-Nicoscia gang in Isola Capo Rizzuto, in the province of Crotone.

A supercosca made up of nomadic criminals - the so-called mafia clan of the "gypsies" - and Ndranghetists attributable to the traditional partnerships of the Calabrian mafia active in Sibaritide , would be responsible for the bloody events and the repeated intimidations and incendiary attacks carried out in the last two years against agricultural entrepreneurs, tourist structures, construction and construction companies, commercial and catering companies.

The criminal group would also be behind the ambush with AK-47s of Francesco Elia on Wednesday. He was a reputed member of the 'Ndrangheta clan Forastefano. His father the boss Alfredo Elia was also murdered decades ago.

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The group is suspected of 6 other murders since 2018 to present.Leonardo Portoraro, Pietro Longobucco, Antonio Sanfilippo, Vito Sposato, Pietro Greco and Salvatore Romano.

Police arrested 20 members of a 'Ndrangheta branch based in Trentino-Alto Adige in the north-east of Italy linked with the Italiano-Papalia clan of Delianuova, on charges of mafia-type association, extortions, kidnapping, drug trafficking, illegal possession of weapons, fraudulent bankruptcy and counterfeiting documents.

You can't miss reading:

https://www.cosanostranews.com/2020/06/latest-developments-of-ndrangheta.html


"... in-depth analysis of the ‘Ndrangheta in the Greater Toronto Area ..."

Not all of them are linked to the Italiano-Papalia Clan, but are members of other clans as well. I am still under the impression that Bolzano is still an open city since the end of the Second Ndrangheta War.

Criminal synergy and mutual favors between Calabrian bosses and top of Cosa Nostra. An ancient agreement that re-emerged yesterday in the Court of Assizes in Reggio Calabria in the "'Ndrangheta massacre" trial from the words of the collaborator of justice, Giuseppe Di Giacomo, the Catania man who has always affirmed the iron pact between the Palermo mafia and the in the years of the continental massacres, of the bombs detonated in Rome, Florence and Milan on the order of Totò Riina to blackmail the state that did not intend to move back on hard prison and confiscations of property.

Answering the questions of the deputy attorney of the DDA of Reggio, Giuseppe Lombardo, the collaborator of justice remarked: "Yes, the 'Ndrangheta was part of the massacre strategy wanted by Riina".

Neofascists and Ndrangheta united by business: the investigation that reveals the traffics in the North
The maxi-investigation of Verona reveals the ever closer relationships between the ultra-right and the mafia environments. Who get rich at the expense of the state by taking advantage of the complicity of politics

"In the Mafia network there is no lack of "invisible" masonry, as in Calabria. When Professor Vallone boasts of being "master of the Mediterranean loggia of Crotone", Toffanin replies that the Calabrians have also opened "a loggia in Verona, in Borgo Trento", the neighborhood-good. And to act as a Masonic "temple guardian", who "has been controlling access for years", is a "marshal of the carabinieri", still unknown. The investigations would instead have identified another carabiniere, already in service to the anti-mafia, who warned Toffanin of the first stalking of the boss Antonio Giardino, even passing him a photo of him taken by the police. The same vigilante, in June 2016, had allowed the entire Mafia family to escape the first arrests for extortion and usury: they all ran away the night before."

https://espresso.repubblica.it/plus/articoli/2020/06/15/news/verona-ndrangheta-neofascisti-1.349936