Police dealt a fresh blow to the
Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia in Emilia Romagna Tuesday
arresting several people including the chair of the city council
in Piacenza, Giuseppe Caruso.
Caruso was one of several people linked to 'Ndrangheta
families linked to the Grande Aracri family, police said.
Caruso, a member of the nationalist Brothers of Italy (FdI)
party, is considered to be an "integral part" of the criminal
organisation that operated between the provinces of Reggio
Emilia, Parma and Piacenza, police said.
Top 'Ndrangheta figures were at the head of the
organisation, police said, including Salvatore Grande Aracri,
Francesco Grande Aracri and Paolo Grande Aracri.
Police also carried out around a hundred or so raids across
Italy against individuals who, while falling short of being
worthy of an arrest warrant, were still linked to the clan,
police said.
'Ndrangheta is Italy's richest and most powerful mafia,
having outstripped Sicily's Cosa Nostra.
It controls the European cocaine trade.
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