The number of local authorities currently commissioned for mafia infiltration in Calabria rises to 23, after the Council of Ministers, last night, decided to put an end to the administrative experiences of the Municipalities of Cutro (Crotone) and Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte ( Reggio Calabria) .

These bodies include two provincial health authorities affected by similar measures: the general management bodies of the Reggio Calabria and Catanzaro ASP have in fact been dissolved. In Calabria, mafia infiltrations represent half of the cases that have led to an early termination of the council legislature, confirming the strong mafia pervasiveness.

The latest half-yearly report of the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate dedicated an analysis to the commissioners for mafia infiltration approved in 2019 and in the first months of 2020 and the reasons behind the strong interest of criminal organizations in local authorities.

Antonino Filocamo member of the Serraino clan is the latest pentito in Reggio Calabria. He is close to the boss Cortese.

https://www.corrieredellacalabria.i...gio-e-un-collaboratore-del-boss-cortese/

Tonino Filocamo and Cortese are still pretty young.

CORTESE Maurizio, nato a Reggio Calabria il 18.4.1980, ... FILOCAMO Antonino, nato a Reggio Calabria 1'11.2.1988,

When the mafia becomes a credit bank

This has little in common with the lurid image of a cinema “godfather” like Don Vito Corleone from the past; it is more about the type of bank manager with an interest calculator.

https://www.time24.news/2020/08/when-the-mafia-becomes-a-credit-bank.html

Pope Francis wants to end the questionable Mary worship by members of the Mafia.
It is about liberating the use of certain dubious rites, structures and deviations that do not correspond to Biblical values ​​such as justice, freedom, honesty and solidarity, he writes in a letter from which the Italian magazine 'Maria con te' quoted yesterday. The Pope is explicitly behind an initiative to free the Virgin from abuse by mafioso organizations.

The Pope is working on this together with a new working group of the International Marian Pontifical Academy, in which representatives of the church and police, as well as other experts, will develop strategies against the Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta, Camorra and Sacra Corona. Among other things, they want to prohibit the so-called tribute during religious processions, such as kneeling, bowing or striking a sign of the cross near statues of the Virgin Mary or caves in front of the houses of Mafia bosses.

If they can get that accomplished, it should be considered a miracle of the Madonna!

Haha it's impossible, but this pope knows the corruption in the Church is huge.

Cosenza, Manzini: "The 'Ndrangheta uses religion to control the territory and the people"

https://cosenza.gazzettadelsud.it/a...te-15bd8bac-4bca-4c88-8172-d93a06621e9d/

The former warden of Reggio Calabria prison, Maria Carmela Longo, was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of external conspiracy for mafia association.
Longo was placed under house arrest.
Prosecutors said they had found "systematic violation of the norms of penitentiary regulations and circulars from the penitentiary administration" in order to favour organised crime.
A preliminary investigations judge said Longo had "handed over Panzera Prison to mafia inmates".
Longo is currently director of the women's section of Rome's Rebibbia jail.

'Sons of Honour' (2020). The 'ndrangheta, or the Calabrian mafia is the main subject of this Dutch-Italian co-production, a traditional criminal organization born of poverty, in which skittish young men are forced to do the dirty work for the bosses. Those young men are Pierpaolo, Simone, Bader and Reda, and documentary maker Sophia Luvarà won their trust.

Last weekend, in Africo, the Hunters arrested 5 people, because they were caught cultivating a large marijuana plantation located in an inaccessible Aspromonte area near the old center of Africo.

Launched last July, the investigation made it possible to find and seize 7,500 marijuana plants as well as almost a kilo of the same drug already dried.

With long stalking and video shooting on the plantation identified, it was possible to identify the growers, including several subjects close, due to family ties, to the ' Ndrangheta clan “SPERANZA – PALAMARA – SCRIVA” of Africo.

- VERSACE Domenico Antoni or, born in Locri (RC) on 05.11.1983, resident in Africo;

- STRANGIO Francesco , born in Locri on 11.15.1976, resident in San Luca (RC);

- MOLLICA Arcangelo , born in Bova Marina (RC) on 22.07.1962, residing in Africo;

- MOLLICA Leo , born in Melito Di Porto Salvo (RC) on 03.10.1962, resident in Africo;

- MORABITO Rocco , born in Locri (RC) on 03.01.1983, resident in Africo.

I've been to Africo Nouva and surrounding areas. In the mountains mostly Zingari squatters. They either tipped someone off or the police got real lucky finding whatever you say they did.

See the name of Francesco Strangio in there. Strangio-Nirta is a well known clan from San Luca. They're active all over Western Europe.

Yes, they are very similar to groups of Roma and Traveller origins. Gioacchino Bonarrigo, arrested in Holland three years ago, was known as “the gypsy” to his friends.

The Strangio-Nirta clan members themselves are not Romani, as far as I know.
There was another clan over here active who were originally from Torano Castello, which is Abbruzzese/Rango-Zingari territory (a clan of Roma origin).

It's a bit difficult to determine who's Romani and who's not in Calabria. They seem to be very integrated over there and regard themselves as Calabrian first and foremost.

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Italian police on Thursday arrested 11 suspected members of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia in an operation spanning Milan and Reggio Calabria.
The arrests were made in the provinces of Milan, Varese, Pavia and Reggio Calabria.
Milan's anti-crime unit was backed by special units, sniffer dogs and helicopters.
The 11 have been charge with corruption, extortion, robbery, drug pushing, illegal possession of weapons that had been altered, including a large explosive device, aggravated threats, arson, and aiding and abetting mafia activities.
These activities were aimed at boosting the 'locale' (chapter) of Legnano-Lonate Pozzolo near Milan, police said.
Thursday's operation was the culmination of a probe that began in April 2017 and led to 43 arrests in July last year, police said.
Several 'locali' had managed to penetrate the local economy and infiltrate local elections in the area north of Milan, police said.
A consultant for the local prosecutor's office helped the locali, police said.

Can Italy Defeat Its Most Powerful Crime Syndicate?
A prosecutor takes hundreds of mobsters to court.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/italian-mafia-ndrangheta/615466/

Drugs in Reggio and the agreements with the 'Ndrangheta, two gangs stopped: 17 arrests

Raid at dawn between the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Milan and Verona. Operation of the carabinieri of the provincial command of Reggio, in execution of precautionary custody measures against numerous people accused, for various reasons, of being part of two associations aimed at illicit drug trafficking, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated personal injury, attempted extortion, illegal possession and carrying of weapons, receiving stolen goods.

The organizations, based in the Sbarre district of Reggio Calabria , had started a thriving business of dealing, also with branches in Veneto, and with connections with the local 'Ndrangheta.

On wiretaps two guys arrested yesterday were heard talking about Toto Riina. They wanted to turn Sbarre in a Corleone and from there take over the whole city of Reggio Calabria, like Riina in Palermo. "he was just 5 feet 2 and had 100 killed he killed top judges, he was a true 'Ndranghetista!" they said.

Scott Rinascita, the maxi trial against the 'Ndrangheta has begun: 200 people in the courtroom
11 September 2020



Just before noon, in the Rebibbia prison in Rome, the preliminary hearing against the 452 suspects involved in the maxi-blitz Scott Rinascita launched last December against the 'Ndrangheta Vibonese and which exposed the relations between the clan and White collars.

Over two hundred people present in the bunker hall of the Roman prison where they tried, but without much success, to respect the distancing, practically zero. Discomfort also due to the absence of air conditioning.

Ten hearings scheduled in the Roman penitentiary, waiting for the construction of a bunker room in Lamezia Terme.

In the courtroom also the chief prosecutor of Catanzaro, Nicola Gratteri: "The fault lies with all of us men of the institutions who have not taken with due seriousness and rigor what has happened before our eyes for decades".

Gratteri also referred to the precautionary custody order issued by the investigating judge of Salerno against the former president of the Court of Assizes of Catanzaro, Marco Petrini, a magistrate under investigation for corruption in judicial acts, (he would have joined a Masonic lodge and allegedly revealed confidential information): "I saw what the Salerno prosecutor is doing: it is a signal that is grafted on to today's trial and with the others already celebrated", underlined Gratteri, given that Rinascita-Scott is the process of 'Ndrangheta with "the highest percentage of unfaithful white-collar and state men".

The prosecutor of Catanzaro also rejected the accusations of "manettaro" that someone made to him: "This delegitimization campaign against the Catanzaro prosecutor's office is perfectly clear, because they have perfectly understood that I am only the advanced point of a great team that has broad shoulders and nerves of steel and that certainly won't make reaction fouls ", he concluded.

Ambush in Lombardy against two Calabrian brothers, one dead and one wounded
By editorial staff 13 September 2020
At the base of the murder there could have been a dispute with the wounding of a young man which took place last night in the center of Lecco where the victim resided

Far West scenes in the heart of Northern Italy, to be exact in the Santa Maria hamlet in Olginate, in the province of Lecco. Two brothers were shot at just before 2pm today. To fall under the blows of the killer Salvatore De Fazio, 47, a native of Belcastro but living in Lombardy for years.

In the shooting, his brother Alfredo was also slightly injured, who found refuge in a building and from there he called for help, then arrived to provide first aid to both. He is hospitalized.

From the first rumors it seems that the aggression matured following a dispute that took place last night and culminated in the wounding of a 25-year-old, who ended up in hospital for a head injury.

Two new repentants among the Vibonese clans emerged at the maxi-trial. The official status is still missing but according to rumors they have already started to collaborate. According to what was leaked, these would be two exponents of the Vibonese 'ndrine who in recent months and years have already registered the defections with the start of the collaboration of characters of the criminal caliber of Andrea Mantella and Bartolomeo Arena.

Huge French-Italian Police Raid Nets 46 Mafia Arrests

https://www.barrons.com/news/huge-f...ets-46-mafia-arrests-01600191604?tesla=y

The have a strong foothold on the French Riviera's property sector. Several locali based in southern france in Toulon, Marseille, Nice, Clermont Ferrand.

they probably have links also with corsican mob, in the blitz there are 'french gangsters' involved but no names

Yeah, the 'ndrangheta turncoat Giovanni Gullà said the Italians have been located in southern France since the 1970s, so they have longstanding links to autochthonous groups. The now mentioned Magnoli family is a great example very influential on the Riviera.

Scott Rinascita, a repentant: "The suspects knew in advance of the blitz"

Gaetano Antonio Cannatà , 46, alias Sapituttu , already involved in the “Insomnia” operation on a usury circuit , also appears on the scene of the new Vibonese repentants . Arrested in the context of the maxblitz Scotti Rinascita of last December 19 Cannatà in the Tolmezzo prison would have learned news about the operation of the Vibonese 'ndrine, confirming the reports of some members of the clans with unfaithful representatives of the state ,
With his statements, moreover, Cannatà reinforces the thesis of a war between clans ready to break out in the Vibonese, but stopped by the Scott Rinascita operation. Triggering the fuse and then trying to set fire to the powders - dusting off an old project of the repentant former boss Andrea Mantella - would have been the expansionist aims of the Ranisi aimed at a "progressive emancipation from the 'Ndrangheta of Vibo from the hegemony of the Mancuso" .

Sapituttu

’Ndrangheta drug trafficking network operating in France and Italy busted, 46 people arrested http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profil...ng-network-operating-in-france-and-italy via @Europol #Europol #Ndrangheta #Mafia

According to the first half-yearly report of 2017 of the DIA, the following crime families are recorded at :

Antibes : the Palumbo , the Italiano
Cannes ; the Stanganelli
Grasse : the Molè, the Piromalli
Menton : the Pellegrino
Nice : Pesce - Bellocco , Italiano- Papalia -Palumbo
Ollioules : the Morabitos
Pégomas : Pesce
La Seyne-sur-Mer : the Morabito family