Facts about Italy's most powerful mafia group, 'Ndrangheta
Police on May 3, 2023 guide an arrested person out of a residential house in Hagen, western Germany, as part of a "wide-scale" operation against the notorious Italian 'Ndrangheta mafia across Europe. Similar operations also took place in Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. PHOTO | ALEX TALASH | AFP
The arrests across Europe Wednesday of 132 operatives linked to the 'Ndrangheta mafia underscores the international tentacles of this powerful and wealthy Italian organised crime syndicate.
Rooted in the southern region of Calabria, 'Ndrangheta has surpassed Sicily's better-known Cosa Nostra to become Italy's most powerful mafia group now operating across the world.
