A Milan review court on Monday
recognised the existence of a 'consortium' of Italy's three main
mafias - 'Ndrangheta of Calabria, Cosa Nostra of Sicily, and
Camorra of Campania - in the affluent northern region of
Lombardy.
The three-way alliance was recognised and 79 arrests ordered in
the so-called 'Hydra' case in which a year ago a preliminary
investigations judge had dismissed 142 arrest warrants out of
153, ordering only 11 arrests, while turning down Milan and
Varese prosecutors' accusation of the three mafias forming a
consortium dubbed "the Lombard mafia system".
The Ndrangheta's alleged Lombardy pointman, Massimo Rossi, may
now be arrested along with the Cosa Nostra alleged chief in the
region, Giuseppe Fidanzati, and the Camorra's alleged regional
head Gioacchino Amico, although the arrest warrants will not be
immediately actionable because the trio can appeal to the
supreme Court of Cassation.
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