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The Story

Inside the operation to bring down Italy's most feared mafia clan

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The Times

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3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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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Guest: Tom Kington, Italy correspondent, The Times.

Host: Luke Jones.

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0:00.0

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0:43.0

Today we're looking at the mafia,

0:45.0

but not the good ol' glamorous fellers you see in the films,

0:48.0

all action and honor, and Robert De Niro cheekbones.

0:51.0

In real life, in Italy,

0:53.0

the authorities have been trying for decades

0:55.0

to take down the different organizations

0:57.0

who've essentially created a parallel criminal economy.

1:01.0

In the late 80s, it was Sicily's cosonostra.

1:19.0

Whilst the policing focus was there, other groups gained momentum

1:22.0

and stepped up their drug trafficking,

1:24.0

kidnapping, protection, racketeering,

1:26.0

like southern Italy's Andragator.

1:29.0

They're being described as bigger than the mafia,

1:32.0

and more lethal than terrorists.

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