The ‘Ndrangheta mafia got their start kidnapping for money but now import billions of pounds worth of cocaine into Europe every year. A pan-European raid earlier this month led to the arrest of 155 people and the seizure of 23 tons of drugs. So could this finally break a crime organisation whose roots go back hundreds of years?
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Governments fall, but the mafia seems to grow no matter what. That is why they stay alive for hundreds of years. They evolve.
Terrorist shot dead in Canada https://youtu.be/liuOQlWEyNk
Instead of fattening the wallets of lots of greedy, corrupt lawyers you simply use special forces to take out these vermin, and instruct the police not to waste time and public money investigating their deaths.
Just send in Ukrainians. Done.
I am in calabria and it exists in all levels. They use laws hundreds of years old to take (steal) public owned lands. This prevents investment in towns frozen in time. Not even a shopping store in my town.
Quite an interesting and informative, and strangely familiar, story.
Totally fascinating, having read about them for years.
Should bring down the UK Conservative mafia.