The Mafia’s most wanted man
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
One prosecutor of the ‘Ndrangheta, Nicola Gratteri, cannot travel without a heavy police escort, nor see his children for more than a few hours every couple of months.
On the Sky News Daily, host Niall Paterson is joined by our Europe correspondent Siobhan Robbins, who has visited the court where hundreds of ‘Ndrangheta collaborators will be tried, to hear more about what it takes to put this powerful mafia behind bars.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Promotions Producer: Jim Farthing
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:04.2 | I'm Neil Patterson and on this edition of the Daily, we're taking you to Mafia Land. |
| 1:10.6 | One of the biggest trials in Italian taking you to Mafia land. |
| 1:15.7 | One of the biggest trials in Italian history is expected to deliver verdicts in the not-too-distant future. Hundreds of defendants are facing sentences totaling more than 4,000 years. The police |
| 1:22.4 | and prosecutors hoping to bring them to justice will they face intimidation and threats |
| 1:26.9 | to their lives. |
| 1:27.7 | This is no mere criminal gang, but an organisation working on every continent with a turnover |
| 1:33.6 | in the tens of billions. And here's the thing. You might not even have heard of them. |
| 1:40.4 | They are the Ndrangetta, and our Europe correspondent, Shavon Robbins, is behind a special |
| 1:44.8 | Sky News investigation. And of course, Chavon joins us on the podcast. |
| 1:49.8 | When I started this investigation, I haven't heard of the Ndrangetta, despite the fact that they |
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