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A German engineer’s trial started Thursday, June 5 for his role in a global nuclear mafia which sold weapons technology to regimes in Iran, North Korea and Libya. Continue Reading »

The investigation into the Mafia shootings of six Italian men in Duisburg nine months ago netted eight arrests in Italy on Friday, according to reports in Italian media. Continue Reading »

ROME: ‘Italian and German police on Tuesday arrested four accused members of organized crime clans believed linked to the killings of six Italians in Germany earlier this year. Continue Reading »

Dusseldorf, Germany - German officials said Thursday they anticipated a revenge attack following the murder in Duisburg last month of six men linked to the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta organized crime group. Continue Reading »

Parents in Southern Italy Mourn Death of Their Children Gunned Down in Germany

Relatives react as the caskets of Marco and Francesco Pergola are carried outside the church after their funeral service in Siderno, on the eastern coast of Calabria, southern Italy, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007. Marco and his brother Francesco were killed last week in Germany in a mafia slaying that left four other Italians dead. (Pier Paolo Cito/AP Photo)

In the end, the parents had their way. They were granted permission to mourn their sons in public funerals and burials in their hometowns set in the rugged hills of Calabria in southern Italy. Continue Reading »

The refined Italian restaurant setting of elegant wooden tables decked with white tablecloths jarred with the meeting’s gruesome purpose – to condemn mafia killings in Germany. Continue Reading »

Blood feuds and settling of scores is not unusual among the mafia

In July 2007, Italian police arrested notorious mafia boss Giuseppe Bellocco in Calabria, southern Italy

DW-WORLD:DE: An expert on organized crime warned that Germany has to be alert about an expansion of mob activity within its borders after officials linked the killing of six Italians in Duisburg to the Calabrian mafia, ‘Ndrangheta.

Federico Varese is a professor of criminology and Official Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford University. Previously, he taught at Williams College and Yale University. His main areas of research are organized crime, corruption, Soviet criminal history, and the dynamics of altruistic behaviour. His book, “The Russian Mafia” won the Ed Hewitt Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Continue Reading »

The head of Italy’s anti-Mafia task force has said that the criminal gang behind the deaths of six men in Germany is now the most powerful crime syndicate in Europe.

Video: New Mafia murder theory

The ‘Ndrangheta, or Calabrian Mafia, is blamed for Wednesday’s murder of six Italians in Duisburg.

Pietro Grasso, Italy’s anti-Mafia commissioner, said the killings demonstrated that it was now operating globally. Other experts warned that the ‘Ndrangheta was also active in Britain, where it controlled the flow of Colombian cocaine. Continue Reading »

In this handout composite picture provided by the German Police, one of the possible killers in the recent murder of six Italians is seen. Police suspect Calabrian Mafia connections in the murders that took place at an Italian restaurant in Duisburg on August 15, 2007.

German police have issued a computer sketch of a man thought to be linked to the gangland-style killing of six Italian men in Duisburg this week, attributed to a mafia clan feud.

Police found the victims with gunshot wounds to the head outside an Italian restaurant near the northwestern city’s central train station in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Continue Reading »

German police have issued a sketch of a man they say could be linked to Wednesday’s execution-style killing of six Italian men in the northwestern city of Duisburg, blamed on a mafia clan feud. Continue Reading »