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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 »

Why are we asking this question now?

Six Italian men who worked at a pizzeria in the north German industrial city of Duisburg were shot dead outside their restaurant at 2 o’clock on Wednesday morning. They were affiliated to one branch of the ‘ndrangheta, the criminal organisation based in Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot. Investigators believe their killers belonged to another clan in the same organisation. The two clans, which come from the same village, have been engaged in a bloody feud since 1991. Continue Reading »

AN EGG thrown at a carnival 16 years ago led to the slaughter of six young men in a mafia execution in Germany yesterday.

The bullet-riddled bodies of five Italian men were discovered in cars parked near the main station of a German city.

A sixth victim was alive when police reached the scene but died on the way to hospital in what police believe was the result of a vendetta between two mob families. Continue Reading »