In a story coming out of Rome, less than an hour ago, a mob syndicate, that is more brutal and more powerful than the Cosa Nostra has struck at some of its' enemies in the heart of Germany.
The bullet-riddled bodies of six young Italians who had just dined at a pizzeria in Germany's industrial heartland told the world last week what Italian authorities already knew: The clannish 'ndrangheta crime syndicate had come of age as an international force.
It seems that as the Italian authorities were cracking down on the Cosa Nostra, during the 1990's, this new syndicate was gaining power through the control of heroin and then cocaine, and now control the cocaine supplies in all of Europe.
The story relates how these clans from the Calabria area of Sicily have through pacts, marriages, and other tight associations, made it almost impossible to penetrate by the Italian law enforcement authorities.
The clans live in a very small area of the Aspromonte mountains, but their reach is world-wide, as their relatives have emigrated to Canada, South America, Australia, and the United States, and provides them with a huge support network.
They have been around for quite awhile, but have only made such huge moves to take over everything in the last decade or so. This looks like one more group, that our law enforcement personnel will have to worry about, behind the regular mob, latino violent gangs like MS 13, and other home grown criminal gangs.
I am sure we will be hearing a great deal more about this group, as they expand their criminal empire, and more blood is spilled.
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