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The best-known Italian organized crime group is the Mafia or Sicilian Mafia (referred to as Cosa Nostra by members). As the original group named "Mafia", the Sicilian Mafia is the basis for the current colloquial usage of the term to refer to organized crime groups. It along with the Neapolitan Camorra and the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta are active ...
The First Mafia War was the first high-profile conflict between Mafia clans in post-war Italy (the Sicilian Mafia has a long history of violent rivalries). In 1962, mafia boss Cesare Manzella organized a drug shipment to the United States with the help of two Sicilian clans, the Grecos and the La Barberas.
In Southern Ontario there are two types of Italian organized crime Cosa Nostra (Sicilian) and 'Ndrangheta (Calabrian). [16] In the 2018 book, The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia , Alex Perry reports that the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta has, for the past decade, been replacing the Sicilian Cosa ...
The webpage provides a list of Sicilian Mafia members categorized by city.
The Camorra (Italian:; Neapolitan:) is an Italian Mafia-type [4] criminal organization and criminal society originating in the region of Campania.It is one of the oldest and largest criminal organizations in Italy, dating to the 18th century.
Italy's mafia rarely dirties its hands with blood these days. Just 17 people were killed by the mob in Italy in 2022, according to the latest official data, versus more than 700 in 1991.
An Italian court has sentenced more than 200 crime gang members to a total of 2,200 years in prison, following the country’s largest mafia trial in three decades.
Within Europe, Italy is placed at 8th in terms of law enforcement per 100 thousand people, surpassing the continental average of 335 units. [2] Italy is known for being a country with a higher number of regional differences than some of its fellow nations; for example, the southern region has much higher activity of organized crime, whereas the northern regions of Italy have had relatively ...