Italian Mafias in Germany

Notorious Mobster to Testify at German Trial
Italian-German mobster Giorgio Basile killed 30 people before he was arrested
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Italian-German mobster Giorgio Basile killed 30 people before he was arrested

A German court will hear evidence Wednesday from infamous Italian-German Mafioso Giorgio Basile. For 10 years, his testimonies, in exchange for his freedom, have helped police crack down on organized crime.

If the three Italians on trial in Düsseldorf for cocaine-trafficking are found guilty, it won’t be the first time that evidence supplied by mobster-turned-police informant Basile puts suspected Mafiosi behind bars.

Before he was even 40, the man they called "Angel Face" had murdered up to 30 people. After being arrested in the Allgäu region of southern Germany in 1998, he was allowed to go free. In return for his new life in a witness protection program, he has helped police lock up over 50 criminals.

Mafia hotbed Corleone in SicilyBildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Mafia hotbed Corleone in Sicily

Now 47, Basile, who will testify Wednesday via video from a secret location in Italy, was once one of the most redoubtable top dogs within the Carelli clan, which belongs to Calabria's notorious 'Ndrangheta.

Among the most powerful and ruthless Mafia-like organizations in Italy, 'Ndrangheta cells are loosely based on blood relationships. The organization is believed to rake in some $30 billion (22 billion euros) annually, mostly from illegal narcotics, but also from ostensibly legal businesses such as construction, restaurants and supermarkets. Allegedly, it is also involved in counterfeiting, gambling, fraud, theft, labor racketeering, loan sharking, people smuggling and kidnapping.

The 'Ndrangheta‘s family ties are believed to be closer and their vows of silence more strictly observed than other Mafia clans, such as Cosa Nostra and Camorra. So when Giorgio Basile decided to break them, it marked a watershed in Germany's fight against the Mafia.

Becoming numero uno

Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in "The Godfather"

With all the ingredients of a classic "Godfather" film, it comes as no surprise that Basile's story has attracted the attention of a Munich film company which has worked in the past with German star movie director Oliver Hirschbiegel (The Downfall).

Born in Corigliano Calabro in 1960, Giorgio moved one year later to Mühlheim an der Ruhr in Germany, where his father made a living as a "guest worker." In 1966, his parents separated when his father realized his mother was having an affair. Her lover was Antonio de Cicco, local boss of the 'Ndrangheta in Corigliano and every bit the Latin stereotype in his sharp suits with slicked-back hair and gold chains. Giorgio spent two years in Italy with his new family, but returned to Germany when his mother got pregnant.

He lost touch with his adopted father until 1979, when at the age of 19, Giorgio was persuaded by de Cicco to leave the dull, industrial trappings of western Germany and work as his driver back in Corigliano. As a fledgling 'ndrinu, he enjoyed the attention his association with de Cicco afforded him and soon became versed in the ways of the clan. But when he discovered his adopted father had been abusing his sister, he resolved to avenge her. In 1973, he made his first killing, when he murdered de Cicco.

By now, he was one of the most powerful cocaine dealers in Tuscany, and a recognized uomo d' onore (man of honor). It was during these years that he met his wife, who bore him a daughter. He extended the business further afield, and in the 1980s, played a key role in building up Mafia influence in Germany.

Betrayed by the organization


Mafia boss Giuseppe Bellocco was arrested in Calabria on Tuesday

Arrested in 1998, he opted to break the Omertà, the Mafia‘s "code of silence". Within Mafia culture, this made him a "stool pigeon" -- a violation punishable by death.

According to Andreas Ulrich, author of "Angel Face," a biography of Giorgio Basile, he agreed to name names because "he felt betrayed by the organization."

"It never comes good on its promises," he said. "It lures young men with promises of power, money and women. It uses them, then kills them as though they were ants."

Basile has said he lives with the knowledge that the Mafia will hunt him down and kill him. "The Mafia bosses are behind bars because of what I did," he told Ulrich. "They can‘t do anything to me any more, but their sons will avenge them."

Eighteen months ago, he told the online version of German news magazine Der Spiegel that the Mafia's influence was stronger than ever.

"The Mafia will continue to expand," he said. "The enlarged Europe will allow it to spread even further. For someone with the same criminal energy as I had, it's even easier in Germany than it is in Italy. You can get away with anything."

Basile said the German authorities had failed to recognize the extent of the criminal energy that exists within the underground Italian community.

"I couldn’t put a figure to it, but Germany is home to many sleepers. Go in to any pizzeria and you might find the cook is a hitman just waiting for a call," he said.

The mob in Germany


Giorgio Basile

The extent of mob influence is definitely underestimated in Germany, said Mafia expert Jürgen Roth.

"When Berlusconi was in power there was very little information coming out of Italy," he explained. "The Mafia took the opportunity to get a foothold in Germany. There is now barely any knowledge of the Mafia's criminal structures here. It is active mainly in the area of money laundering, drug and weapons trading, protection racketeering and prostitution."

While the biggest 'Ndrangheta presence is in eastern German states such as Thuringia and Saxony, Roth says Cosa Nostra has a higher profile in Baden-Württemberg, where CDU state premier Günther Oettinger has even been accused of ties to a leading 'Ndrangheta member. The state's premier between 1978 and 1980, Lothar Späth, was also accused of contacts to Mafia kingpin Vito Palazollo, Cosa Nostra's top money launderer.

Earlier this month, Italy’s leading Mafia hunter, Piero Grasso, warned Germany in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung daily that the mob was even beginning to penetrate legitimate business circles in Germany.

"The size and profit potential of German markets, as well as German law, makes the country highly attractive to organized criminals," he said. "Their goal is to infiltrate legal financial circles in order to invest illegally gained funds with a long-term aim of dominating price wars and creating monopolies."


Jane Paulick

this topic is very intersting...the four italian mafias wash huge sums of money in germany, they control some politicions and city mayors...a lot of drugs (turkish heroin) , light and heavy weapons are moving traught germany...the mafias act in germany like in their home in italy and more than that...

about this spacific case- it is very very rare to see ndrangheta member that became a police informer....i think all of you will agree with me that this man will not die naturaly....


x-man.

I disagree, I think he will die of natural causes, well maybe not, but he will not die at the hands of the Ndrangheta. Yes these organizations are powerful and rich, but with government protection and a very low profile he will be safe. The media creates very easily a myth around these organizations, when in fact certain things will always pop up: informers and dumb decisions. In the end they will fall. Cosa Nostra was the most powerful organization in the 1980s so why wasn't Buscetta hit?

hey david!


i think that this is a different story , unlike the cosa nostra the ndrangheta are based on family ties this is why it so hard to bring them down- i think the anti-mafia don't have enough informers from the ndrangheta, and their (ndrangheta) hands is deep inside the legale world....it is very hard to bring them down...but i trust on the anti-mafia..they will find the way....


by the way,about germany- i read a senior anti-mafia man said to the reporter- "if you think 80 % of the pizzaries (and italian resturaunts) in berlin are in mafia hands you will be wrong...it is 100% "

I agree with you that because of the exstensive intertwining family relations they are very hard to penetrate, but Cosa Nostra has similar families who have intertwined like that. I think that along the line several will fall, who in turn will make more fall, causing a nice wave of pentiti. It is a criminal world, honor is scarce.

In that book we discussed earlier of Fabrizio Calvi he devotes a chapter to Germany. I will post some tidbits of it

in the last 15 years ndrangheta spread to almost every part of the world...they are moving fast...very fast...anti-mafia stop from time to time fugitivs and big amount of cocain...but it is nothing ...the calabrians international activity is incrdible!...it will be very hard to stop them...honor and respect for them is a saint thing...they will die for this thing...that's why south americans trust them so much...there is a movie named: men of honor...and in this movie a ndrangheta fugitive said : "the honorble society take care of us! " ....so you can see that they take care all their pepole...even the small soldiers that are on the run and their families....they invest in calabria, they give work to pepole-so this pepole also won't speak to the police...it is hard..very hard...but not imposible....


waiting for your posts about the book! and the other members opinions and posts in this very intersting topic!!!

x-man.

The first wave of Italian immigrants came in South German village Kempten. They needed workers for their factories and so hundreds of men from Adrano came over. In the 1990s the Italian population in Kempten had grown to 1500. One tenth of those are allegedly involved in Organized Crime. Mafiosi who operated in Germany as bosses were Antonio Salamone, Vito di Stefano (owner of several pizza parlors in Germany and Belgium) and his brothers. These men extorted the Italian community and used money from that to pay for legal expenses.

Many mafiosi hide in Germany from Italian police. Antonio Egizzio, a Camorra boss, controls ten clothing and cosmetic stores in Germany which are allegedly front for drug trafficking (1993). Carmine Alfieri's men settled in Nuremberg where they operate weapons smuggling, and stolen vehicle businesses.

i like this kind of stuff!!!!!!!!

someone has more stuff about it???

Six Italians shot dead in Germany

The identities of the victims have not yet been revealed

Six Italian men have been shot dead near a train station in the western German city of Duisburg, police say.
Five bodies were discovered in two cars parked outside an Italian restaurant and the sixth man died as he was being taken to hospital in an ambulance.

The bodies were found at about 0230 (0030 GMT). A police spokesman said the victims, who were aged between 16 and 39, had all been shot in the head.

Authorities say the motive for the killings remains unclear.

Reports say the man who was taken to hospital did not say anything before he died.

Police appeal

Police spokesman Reinhard Pape said they had been alerted at 0200 after a woman passer-by heard gunshots and stopped a police patrol car that happened to be in the area.



About 30 minutes later, police officers found four bodies in a car parked near an Italian restaurant about 100m from the city's station.

The other two victims were found in a small van nearby.

Mr Pape said the van was registered in Duisburg, while the car was registered in the south-western town of Pforzheim.

Numerous gun cartridges were found at the crime scene, but the victims appeared to be unarmed, Mr Pape added.

Witnesses said they saw two people in the area at the time.

Police have now sealed off the station at Duisburg and say they are exploring all lines of inquiry.

The BBC's Tristana Moore in Berlin says there is speculation that an organised crime gang such as the Italian Mafia may have been responsible.

The killings are a shocking development in the relatively peaceful city of Duisburg, where shootings are rare, our correspondent adds.

6 Italians fatally shot in Germany
ERICH REIMANN

Associated Press

August 15, 2007 at 5:23 AM EDT

DUISBURG, GERMANY — Six Italian men were fatally shot in the head near a train station in the western German city of Duisburg early Wednesday, police said.

The six victims were found in two vehicles near the main train station. One of the men died while being taken by ambulance to a hospital, police spokesman Hermann-Josef Helmich said.

Mr. Helmich said the men, between the ages of 16 and 39, were Italians, but gave no other information on their identities.

Police did not know who might have committed the killings or what the motive might have been, he said.


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Police and emergency services watch as a body is wheeled to a coroner’s vehicle outside the main train station in the northwestern German town of Duisburg on Wednesday. (Ina Fassbender/Reuters)

In Italy, news reports said the killings were the result of a fight between two rival clans of a criminal organization active in Italy's southern Calabria region.

The incident apparently happened around 2 a.m. About a half hour later, police officers found the two vehicles. The van was registered in Duisburg and the car in Pforzheim, in southwestern Germany.

Another Duisburg police spokesman, Reinhard Pape, said a pedestrian heard a noise and stopped a police patrol car that happened to be in the area.

Numerous gun cartridges were found at the crime scene — about 100 metres from the train station, and close to an Italian restaurant.

"There must have been more than one person involved," Mr. Pape said.

Police said the two vehicles, a car and a van, had collided in a narrow passage between two office buildings. It was unclear whether the collision occurred before or during the shootings.

The victims appear to have been unarmed, Mr. Pape said.

Police were due to hold a news conference at 2 p.m.

Italy's ANSA news agency said the victims appeared to be from the 'ndragheta's Pelle-Romeo clan. The killers, ANSA said, were suspected of coming from the Strangio-Nirta clan. It didn't identify its sources, saying only that they were Italian investigative sources.

"It's an unprecedented settling of scores, also because it took place in a foreign country for the first time," ANSA quoted the deputy head of the Regio Calabria police, Luigi De Sena, as saying. "The presence of Calabrians in Germany is very strong, but until now they always kept a low profile, trying not to attract attention."



This post has been edited by Hollander on Aug 15 2007, 03:54 AM

Link to article about this topic, along with part of the article itself, appears below:

http://www.canada.com/cityguides/hamilton/...1bfa85a&k=94680

Six Italians shot in Germany in mafia feud
Petra Wischgoll
Reuters

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

DUISBURG, Germany, (Reuters) - Six Italian men were shot dead in the German city of Duisburg early on Wednesday in an execution-style killing linked to a mafia feud.

[snip]

The victims, all shot in the head, were aged between 16 and 38 and some were related to each other.

The brazen attack in a foreign country is unprecedented and Italian investigators said they feared a bloody riposte by victims' relatives in keeping with the tradition of vendetta.

"We are now trying to prevent a similar tragedy (in Calabria)," Amato told a news conference.

German police in the run-down northwestern city of Duisburg confirmed the victims came from the Calabria area and did not rule out the possibility of a mafia connection.

They are looking for two men spotted running from the scene.

[snip]

The shootings took place close to an Italian restaurant called Da Bruno where a birthday celebration had taken place. All the victims either worked at the restaurant or had some connection with it, said Sprenger.

The victims belonged to one of two rival clans based in the town of San Luca. Their simmering feud began in 1991 and has escalated in the past eight months. Overall 15 people have been killed.

[snip]

Italian investigators said the 'Ndrangheta was well established in Germany but has traditionally kept a low profile.

Police found the six in, or lying next to, two vehicles near the city's train station after a passer-by heard shots at about 2:30 a.m. (0030 GMT). Five were already dead and the sixth died on the way to hospital.

"There were many shots and shot wounds," said Sprenger. German television showed pictures of a distraught middle-aged woman arriving at the scene shouting "Sebastiano!"

[snip]

Italians are Germany's second biggest immigrant group after Turks. Many from the poor south came to Germany as "guest workers" after World War Two and helped fuel the country's economic boom.
About 540,000 Italians live here and are mostly well integrated.

At the end of 2006, about 3,500 Italians lived in Duisburg, a city in Germany's industrial heartland, the Ruhr, that has been hit by high levels of unemployment.

Antonio Pelle aus San Luca über die Mafia-Morde

http://www.wdr.de/themen/panorama/24/duisb...ew_070816.jhtml

Pizzerias fight mafia stigma

August 22 2007 at 11:23AM

By Florian Oel

Berlin - After the mafia-style murder of six Italians in a working-class city on the Rhine last week, Germany's many Italian restaurants are living in fear - for their image.

"My customers have been asking me: 'So how much protection money do you have to pay?'" Pino Bianco, the owner of Berlin's chic A Muntagnola restaurant, said indignantly.

Bianco and others in the German capital are not taking lying down what they see as the fast-spreading assumption that where there is pizza and pasta there must be mafia.

'Restaurants are small fry for the mafia'
They have joined a campaign launched by the German chapter of the worldwide Italian expatriate group UIM (Unione Italiani nel Mondo) to combat negative press that followed the killings outside an Italian restaurant in Duisburg and are putting up window signs reading "Mafia? No thanks!"

The posters insist that "only those who have no self-respect bow to the mafia".


Bianco believes that smart restaurants are less likely to suffer "Godfather" stereotyping than smaller, cheaper pizzerias but everybody is concerned that they could lose business following the Duisburg bloodbath.

"Obviously the murders hurt us, but what hurt us even more are the things that were written by the tabloid press afterwards," he said, referring to dark hints that it may no longer be safe to go for a pizza in one of the 300 Italian-owned restaurants in Berlin.

Last Wednesday, six members of the Vottari/Romeo/Pelle immigrant families were gunned down in two vehicles outside the upscale Da Bruno restaurant near Duisburg's central railway station.

'We must not be blind to this danger'
The men, who had been celebrating one of the victims' 18th birthday at the restaurant, originally hailed from Calabria in southern Italy, a sun-baked region that is home to the notoriously violent 'Ndrangheta organised crime clan.

The Italian government rapidly attributed the killings to an internal feud within the 'Ndrangheta clan.

Italian Justice Minister Clemente Mastella has said the 'Ndrangheta has annual assets totalling €40-billion, property on five continents and occasional investments in the Frankfurt stock market.

If the link is proved, it would be the first time that 'Ndrangheta members have carried out a vendetta killing outside Italy and German statistics suggest that Italian crime rackets have not yet become a widespread phenomenon in the country.

Last year, the German police investigated 26 instances of organised crime believed to have been committed by "Italian groups" and linked only half of those to the Sicilian mafia and similar organisations.

"Restaurants are small fry for the mafia. Blackmailing them does not bring in a lot of money," said Bernd Finger, the head of the Berlin police's organised crime unit.

But Gino Tuddu, the owner of the Cafe Aroma in Berlin, said his compatriots living in Germany should not be naive about the long reach of Italy's legendary crime bosses.

"We must not be blind to this danger," he warned.

The UIM organiser in Germany, Laura Garavini, estimates that up to 10 percent of Italian restaurants in Germany pay protection money or are being used in money-laundering operations.

She urged Italian-owned businesses here not to allow the culture of silence that reigns back home in Italy and makes it easier to blackmail their counterparts there, to take root here too.

"They get away with it because people keep quiet when it happens to them or quietly watch it happening to others."

Bianco too called for solidarity.

"We want to tell all of those who are being threatened that they are not alone," he said.

The UIM has been encouraged by the strong response in Berlin and will next week take the "Mafia? No thanks!" initiative to Cologne, which lies 60 kilometres down the Rhine river from Duisburg. -
Sapa-AFP

German police search dozens of homes in probe of Italian killings as 6th burial takes place
The Associated Press

Published: August 24, 2007

BERLIN: Police in western Germany searched dozens of homes on Friday in their investigation of the killings of six men believed to have been members of an Italian crime syndicate, as mourners buried one of the victims in his German home town.

"Several buildings were searched in different cities," said a statement from police in the western city of Duisburg, where the slayings took place. "The evaluation of the objects we found there is continuing and persons (that were at the searched homes) are being questioned."

In a later statement, police said that investigators had concluded two firearms were used in the shootings, They continued to follow up on more than 400 tips from the public, but have made no arrests.

Meanwhile, some 120 mourners gathered in nearby Muelheim for the funeral of 18-year-old Tommaso-Francesco Venturi, who died together with the five other men in a hail of gunfire after a pizzeria celebration of his birthday — a Mafia-style attack that officials said grew out of a long-running feud between two organized crime clans in southern Italy.

"It was a very moving funeral service, full of solidarity for the family that lost a son who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Father Antonio Lucato, who conducted the service in Italian.


Police stood guard outside the chapel entrances during the mass for Venturi, who was born in Muelheim and had been an apprentice at the pizzeria, Da Bruno, near the scene of the killings.

"It's so terrible that I just can't believe he's dead, and on his birthday too," said close friend Hakan Akyuez. "He was just a great guy who wouldn't hurt a fly."

Venturi was the only victim to be buried in Germany. The bodies of the five other victims were buried Thursday in southern Calabria in Italy amid high security as police feared more violence between the feuding Pelle-Romeo and Nirta-Strangio crime clans.

The slayings in Duisburg marked the first time the 'ndrangheta syndicate had exported a vendetta, Italian authorities said. The organization, based in Calabria, is heavily involved in drug trafficking and extortion, and earlier this year officials described it as even more dangerous than the Sicilian Mafia.

Prosecutors have described the feud as a reflection of ruthless determination by 'ndrangheta clans to expand control of the European cocaine market as well as of long-simmering bad blood between the families.

The syndicate is alleged to run extortion and loan-sharking rackets, and arms and drug trafficking.

some one have more info about camorra activity in germany????? pepole say they are very active in consruction industry in east germany...also pizzerias...coffe shops,hotels etc' ...the misso family...mazarella family and all the other big and heavy families of the notorious camorra.

in these days who is the most active organiztion in Berlin?

it is just the camorra and the Ndrangheta? or there is also sicilian activity over there?

about other areas in germany there is good information in the web ,but from some reason no such information about Berlin activities...so some one knows something?

thanks


x-man.

My English is verry Bad, but i have comment. I come from Germany.

First i think the internet have not good information about the Mafia / OC in Germany.

In Berlin i believ the most Italy organiztion are Ndrangheta. money laundering,money laundering, money laundering this is the mayor point of all Italy Organiztion where active in German. Little Crews make racketing but that does not dominate the field of racketeering. weapons ,Theft,Robbery,Drugs,protection money from other Italien immigrants other fields.

So i think the costra nostra,comorra,Ndrangheta is active in berlin too but not on the street. And he are not the big Players in the German OC today.

ciao,


the italians are not the big players in german o.c?? or you mean the cosa nostra are not the big players.... all the investigtions shows that Ndrangheta are the one's that are the most powerful in germany...it is of course money laundering but they use german ports for their cocain empire , arms dealing and for turkish heroin...

and about berlin-what kind of business they owned? i read that about 30 pizzerias in berlin are in the calabrians hands and the camorra have two big outlets (from roberto saviano book).

what you can add about it?

thanks

x-man

Sorry for the late Posting but i have not enought time last days.


I mean the Italians are not the big Players, this is TV and TV love this Guys.

Of course this Guys are Powerfull but real believe me this Guys are not Kings in Germany.

The First Lie is the cocain Empire maybe in Italy but not in Germany. Maybe we

have in Germany Italy Distributor and handful larger dealers (1kg - xxkg).

But the dominated peopel of cocain market are

Serbian, Croatian (Jugos) absolutly big player
Germans (for exampel Ronald "Blacky"Miehling 1 Tonne,)
Turks and maybe Albania have in my opinion the same level like italian guys.

South american peopel and guys from Netherlands in the backround, maybe Isrealis

In the Years between 1990 and 1996 the east Germany was like wild west. And all kind of peopels( fortune hunter,criminals,young politicians, businessmans) going to Rostock,Leipzig,Dresden,east Berlin and search quick money. In this time figuers from the OC buying buildings appartments, skyliners for money laudering and to transact business. The Ndrangheta have buying many buildings. So the Ndrangheta was the most time who he activ in Germany legall or Grey Business.

Cosa Nostra Camorra, Ndrangheta controlled or better take a part of fruit business, receiving,blackmailing of other guys from italy, illegal immigrants for building site, robbery, but this is verry small. the Italion organisation is active in the italion immigrand scene and white dollar crime. The Pizzerias in Germany pay (all)(80%) to the Mafia (Cosa Nostra Camorra, Ndrangheta usw). The Owen Pizzerias and stors its important for money laudering.

But the Italians have alliance with other groups
Example grand theft auto and to move
stolen cars in other countys. In Gemrany we have case who german and polen thief stolen cars and over car dealership with a german stooge in realy this is a car workshop for the Camorra the car come to italy oder other countys.

German Underworld have no Godfathers he have big Players but no to be an absolute ruler.

Over German Underworld not realy good informations in the TV oder English media. In german we have not mutch but more great journalist like Jürgen Roth.

yea -but the ndrangheta don't get their hands dirty...they control the shipments of the cocain until spacific point...from that point and on big drug dealers buy it (Serbian, Croatian ,german) and then it goes to the smaller street dealers....
the calabrians don't get involved in all of this..even the shipments made by albanians ,nigerians etc'.....off course they have their capos and soldeirs make sure everything goes well....and in germany their main target exept the german ports is money laundering.....and my question was about their money laundering activities in berlin.......

x-man

I Don't belive that ndrangheta control the Shipemts have you evidence ?

ordinarily the Cocain traffic thusley.

First in South America
Cartel buy Coca from farmers (mostly native)
Cartel have labors and make cocain
Cartel shipments her cocain to harbours (exampel :amsterdam) and to his guys mostly south americans and now sells to other groups or guys.
or
Cartel sells (in america) his cocain to local Dealers and other groups dealers. This guys bring the cocain to different places.

and now say me who control the ndrangheta the cocain traffic ? Yes of corse in Italy and maybe other regions and maybe few harbours whos in the hand of the Ndrangheta. But Global ? Never.

In Spain (one of the main ports from cocain)we have South American Peopels and Galicier,guys from spain,france,east european, British dealers and of courese italion too.


Amsterdam we have Guys from Netherlands,South American, British,german......... from all country.

Nigeria okay maybe i have not enough information about the nigerian system.

But I know that Italion guys controlled cocain in east Africa.


Ndrangheta make more money on other Businiss.


In Berlin this guys use the Pizzerias 100%, maybe slot machines,fruits companys, IMMOVABLES.

REPLAY The TV push this guys. Yes of course verry powerfull but he not the Kings not in Berlin.

it's not me saying these things on ndrangheta..it's the anti-mafia..it's the german police , it's mafia experts and so on.....colombian cartel prefer work with ndrangheta -they trust on them more then on others...80 % of europe cocain pass traught the calabrian port first.

latest report said that ndrangheta make 50 billion euros now.....30 billion from drugs.......



x-man

Germany and Italy set up anti-mafia task force

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/157551.html

of course hundrends of gangs deal drug on the streets, but the 'Ndrangheta according to the most important organized crime expert control today the european market because it is strongly linked with the colombian paramilitary groups, especially with the AUC led by Salvatore Mancuso and it has several "families" who are based in Colombia like the Maroso; when they say it controls the market it means that it controls the biggest operations, but smaller gangs can buy drug without intermediation the same if they have good contacts in Colombia or Bolivia, but to buy an huge quantity of cocaine you must have a great capacity of earnings and the colombians trust especially the 'ndrangheta nowadays; of course it is not a monopoly like Cosa nostra had in 1970s and 1980s when the heroin was refined directly in Sicily

yea , this is what i have tried explaining to our friend nitro.

there are a lot of street gangs in germany that deals with cocain...but the biggest players in this business is the Ndrangheta (that keeps their hands clean ) .
80% of europe cocain past traught the calabrian coasts first.
the colombians trust the calabrians because they are true men of honour and keep their mouths quiet.


x-man

yes the colombians trust the 'ndrangheta because it always pays the drug deliveries, but the 'ndrangheta controls the market because it owns lands in Colombia and it produces a part of cocaine itself and because there are two members of the 'ndrangheta directly related with the AUC leader of south italian origins Salvatore "El Mono" Mancuso (they got married with two his cousins) and according to the colombian police the AUC controls about 50% of the cocaine produced in Colombia, the 40% is controlled by the "guerilla" (FARC) and the 10% by the Cartels and cartelitos, the AUC and the guerilla took almost the whole cocaine control after the Escobar's murder in 1993

VENDETTA ON THE RHINE

A Mafia Wake-Up Call
Following the recent bloodbath in Duisburg, investigators have concluded that the Italian mafia is now using Germany as more than just a place to take time out. The mafia set up drug-dealing and money-laundering operations throughout the country years ago.


AP
The bodies of Italian men shot in Duisburg. No one believes that the hail of bullets that killed the six men last week marks the end of the vendetta.
Even mafia thugs take a break when it comes time to paying respect to the Madonna of the Mountain. In early September, mafia bosses and their foot soldiers will come together at a shrine to the Virgin Mary near San Luca, a village of 4,000 inhabitants in the Aspromonte Mountains in Italy's Calabria region, to worship their patron saint. The annual ritual includes a procession, a church service and the traditional tarantella dance.

What may seem like a quaint folk festival to tourists in fact reveals the current power structure among gangsters to those in the know. Whomever the clan leader invites into the dancing circle, and when, speaks volumes about rank and status in the mafia.

This year German investigators will also be showing a keen interest in traditional rituals at San Luca. Most of the men who will be dancing the tarantella there are members of the 'Ndrangheta, one of the most vicious mafia organizations. Italian mafia investigators estimate that its 7,000 members rake in at least €35 billion ($47 billion) a year in revenues from worldwide cocaine, weapons and counterfeit money deals.


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Find out how you can reprint this DER SPIEGEL article in your publication. It was probably mafia hit men from the village who mowed down six Italians (more...) at Da Bruno, a restaurant in Duisburg, last Wednesday. The murders serve as evidence of something that German investigators have long refused to acknowledge: that the mafia has been active in Germany for years.

Giuliano Amato, the Italian interior minister, promptly named the warring clans and their motives. Italian investigators complained that German prosecutors have been far too hesitant to proceed against the types of gangsters believed to be behind the Duisburg killings. In fact, experts with Germany's Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) had already identified the Da Bruno restaurant as a "base for criminal drug and counterfeit money activities" a full 15 years ago, but it apparently never took any action.

A Birthday Party Turns into a Bloodbath

On Tuesday night, the restaurant was the scene of late-night festivities to celebrate the 18th birthday, at midnight, of Tommaso-Francesco Venturi, a new trainee. Restaurant manager Sebastiano Strangio, 38, locked the door at 2:15 a.m. Then he and five other men walked to their parked cars. These would be the last steps for Strangio, trainee Venturi, the two waiters (Marco and Francesco Pergola, 19 and 21), and two visitors from Italy (Francesco Giorgi, 16, and Marco Marmo, 25).

Police investigators presume that there were probably two killers waiting for the men in an alley. As soon as the six victims were sitting in their cars, the killers fired at least 70 shots at them with automatic weapons. The bullets pierced windshields, metal and the heads, abdomens and lower bodies of the victims -- until all six were dead. Then they shot each victim once in the head for good measure.

Although the authorities insist they are following many leads in their investigation, by late last week, German police were clearly focusing on the connection to San Luca and wading into the midst of a bloody gang war between two warring family clans, the Vottari-Pelle-Romeo and the Strangio-Nirta, both part of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta.

Police speculate that Marco Marmo was the principal target of the Duisburg attack. Italian investigators say that Marmo was a mafia killer who killed a woman in San Luca last Christmas. The 33-year-old victim, Maria Strangio, was the wife of a man who authorities believe heads the family clan, Giovanni Luca Nirta. According to investigators, Marmo fled to Duisburg, where he had relatives, to escape the clan's vendetta.

Tentacles across Germany

'Ndrangheta men are all too familiar with the journey northward. By 2000, some 160 members of the group, including close relatives of clan leaders, were officially registered in Germany. According to an internal BKA document from 2000, the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta has already expanded its operations from its original base in Duisburg to points throughout Germany.

One of those places is the eastern city of Erfurt, another base for the 'Ndrangheta in Germany since the mid-1990s. According to Italian and German investigators, members of Calabrian mafia families now own various properties in the capital of the German state of Thuringia. They also operate a number of restaurants, some in prime downtown locations.


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Graphic: Centers of 'Ndrangheta Activity in Germany
According to investigators' documents, some of the mafiosi are already established members of the upper-middle-class in Erfurt, where they have long sponsored the local football club, FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt, and donated money to orphanages and cultural institutions. Indeed, the mafia's roots in the eastern German city go back many years. When police stormed the Paganini Restaurant in 1996 as part of the investigation of a mafia murder, they encountered their boss, Richard Dewes, the state's interior minister at the time, and even his boss, then-state Governor Bernhard Vogel.

A noticeably large number of the staff at the Erfurt Italian restaurant is of Calabrian descent. Many waiters share the same last names as known mafia families whose members figure prominently in Italian police investigation files. Some of the Italian employees previously worked in the Da Bruno pizzeria or in other Duisburg restaurants, which Italian authorities say are controlled by the 'Ndrangheta clan.

Investigators believe that the mafia's bases in Germany are used primarily for clandestine financial transactions. In 1999, the state Office of Criminal Investigation in Stuttgart investigated an Italian from San Luca who had allegedly laundered millions through a local bank, the Sparkasse Ulm. The man claimed that he managed a profitable car dealership, and authorities were unable to prove that the business was not the source of his money.

The BKA concluded -- seven years ago -- that "the activities of this 'Ndrangheta clan represent a multi-regional criminal phenomenon." But despite their certainty, they have done little since then to address the problem.



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THE ANTIMAFIA GERMAN PACT

BERLIN, Jan 14 – Germany has been living for years with the folkloristic idea “where there is pizza there is mafia”. But today, when the Italian Antimafia Commission members meet the local police in order to do a point of the situation, they will find a different reality. The whole country is keeping in its mind that the Italian organized crime is a phenomenon well structured and with profound roots in several German cities. The Duisburg slaughters, six Italian men killed by the ‘Ndrangheta, shocked people and authorities who understood how the mafia could become a much more dangerous problem in the next future. The federal procurator Hermann von Langsdorff explained as “the Italian organized crime is very active in Germany and it doesn’t use it just for transitory operations; a brother of the sicilian boss of bosses Bernardo Provenzano has been living there for several years and the sons of the boss speak German better than Italian”. In the latest months there was a new and stronger cooperation between the Italian and German criminal police (BKA) in order to fight the mafia in Germany. One of the biggest problem is that the Germans don’t know the real nature of the problem at all. Just a few years ago, when the killer Giorgio “Angel Face” Basile was arrested, the procurators wrote that he was part of an organization called Trangeda instead than ‘Ndrangheta; this kind of criminality is impossible to understand for a German policeman and the cooperation with the more expert Italians is ultimate. Nowadays the German authorities are making a national map about the presence of ‘Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra across Germany, where they have been present for decades and they are the hard core of the Italian organized crime, in Munchen, Koln, Wiesbaden, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Bochum, Blaustein, Dortmund, Stuttgard, since 1989 they were present in East Germany where they laundered billions. Last December the extortion racket, frequent in other cities, arrived for the first time even in Berlin where three Italians, linked with the Camorra, were arrested after they burned an Italian restaurant. But the real worry of the German authorities is that the Italian mafia could become a structural phenomenon as it happened in other countries like United States or Canada. The number of the Italian immigrants, mostly from the southern regions, grew up strongly in Germany since 1955, but although they are the oldest foreign community and the second largest with about 530.000 citizens, according to the social scientists except the little Berlin community they are not still well integrated even compared to more recent immigrants like Turkish or Serbians.



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German police charge Italian organized-crime trio

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/17...crime-trio.html

MAFIA FUGITIVE GARGANICA ARRESTED IN GERMANY
(AGI) - Foggia, 13 Nov. - The police of Foggia, in collaboration with Interpol and German police forces, have arrested Giuseppe Manzella, 46 years old from Manfredonia, believed to be an important mafia member and the last of the fugitives from the 2004 blitz against the Gargano mafia families, carried out by the police of Foggia and coordinated by the anti-mafia district of Bari. A European arrest order had been issued for Manzella because he is believed to be responsible for attempted murder and the possession of illegal weapons. The details of the arrest will be explained in a press conference this morning.

FUGITIVE OPERATION 'TSUNAMI' ARRESTED IN GERMANY
(AGI) - Ragusa, 31 Dec. - The fugitive Gaetano Mantello, 36 years old, wanted since October 16 when he escaped from anti-drugs operation ''Tsunami'', has been arrested in Germany.
The man, born in Palagonia (Catania) had lived for two years in Stuttgart where he was captured. The investigating judge of Catania, Laura Benanti, had issued a warrant for his arrest for criminal association and drugs trafficking, mainly cocaine and hash. The arrest was carried out by the German police in collaboration with the flying squad of Ragusa. According to the investigation, coordinated by assistant Fabio Scalone of the Local Anti-Mafia Investigation Department, Mantello would be member of a criminal organisation that managed drugs transports in the whole Ragusa district. He has been taken to a German prison, waiting to be extradited to Italy

Schlag gegen die Bau-Mafia

hey angelo,

can you tell me what the video is about? i don't understand german...it's about cosa nostra money laundering????

I can't explain it in english very well but it's about Construction, Tax and benefit fraud in Cologne and around the Area...

yea i got it...it's a sicilian brothers that are the heads of a clan opreat in cologne,
they run their business from local resturaunt...they have a construction company that it suspect of trying to evade 20 million euros of tax....the 2 brothers arrested...one more suspect is fugitive.
the italian mafia (especially ndrangheta and also camorra) control the construction sector in large parts of germany...and almost monopolized the construction in east germany.


x-man

This book has been translated into Dutch!

http://www.nieuwamsterdam.nl/boekUitgave.a...liate=crimesite

ndrangheta camorra mafia giorgio basile (in German)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qwLoB7kPIc

German police seize suspected mafia member
The 'Ndrangheta is Italy's most powerful and ruthless mafia, best known in Germany for the murder of six men in Duisburg, in an internal feud two years ago.
Berlin -- German police said Friday they had arrested a suspected member of the powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia group, following a major raid on the clan in Italy.

The man, a 37-year-old identified only as Fabio F., has been in Germany since 2008 and "is suspected of taking part in several homicides," police said in a statement.

He was seized in Frankfurt in the early hours of Thursday morning following a joint German-Italian operation, the statement added.

Also on Thursday, Italian police launched a raid in the Cosenza region, arresting 18 suspected 'Ndrangheta members and seizing property worth 20 million euros (28 million dollars).

Villas, apartments, farms, cars and bank accounts were confiscated in the raids after a former member of the clan gave evidence to the police.

Those held were suspected of homicide and unauthorised possession of weapons as well as belonging to the mafia.

The 'Ndrangheta is Italy's most powerful and ruthless mafia, best known in Germany for the murder of six men in Duisburg, in an internal feud two years ago.

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’Ndrangheta Mafia seen firmly established in Germany
Published: 13 Aug 09 07:33 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090813-21217.html

The dreaded ’Ndrangheta clan of the Italian Mafia has established a growing foothold in Germany, according to a report from the Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BKA) obtained by weekly newspaper Die Zeit.

The officials believe there are 229 family clans of the Calabria-based ’Ndrangheta active in Germany. Many of the 900 members are found in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

The paper reported on Thursday that much of the criminal activity carried out by the German-based Mafia members includes arms trafficking, murder, money laundering, drug trafficking, toxic waste disposal and extortion. The 400-page report also lists hundreds of German restaurants under Mafia control.

The ’Ndrangheta Mafia clan is based in the Calabrian region of Italy, located right on the country’s “toe.” Despite its geographical proximity to Sicily, the ’Ndrangheta clan operates separately from the Sicilian Cosa Nostra clan.

The ’Ndrangheta first made its presence in Germany known almost two years ago when six Italians in Duisburg were shot dead in front of their restaurant. The apparent motive was a feud between the family that owned the restaurant and a family of the clan. Giovanni Strangio, who operated two pizzerias in the area, and his brother-in-law Giuseppe Nirta have both been arrested for the crime.

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