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The Barbaro 'ndrina is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina belongs to the locale of the town of Platì. According to the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA - the Italian Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate), the Barbaro 'ndrina is one of the most powerful 'Ndrangheta ...
All the Money in the World (2017) – American-British crime thriller film depicting the events surrounding the actual 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III in Italy and the refusal of his grandfather, The multi-billionaire oil tycoon, J Paul Getty, to cooperate the extortion demands of the Italian organized crime group known as ‘Ndrangheta [18]
The Good Mothers is a 2023 British-Italian crime drama television mini-series directed by Julian Jarrold and Elisa Amoruso. Based on a true story and adapted from the eponymous novel by Alex Perry, the series depicts how three courageous women inside the notorious Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia worked with a female prosecutor to bring down the criminal empire.
What is known as the Papalia family began as the group headed by Rocco Perri and his common-law wife Bessie Starkman in the 1920s. [8] Antonio Papalia was a bootlegger with early Picciotteria values, [9] who immigrated to Canada from Delianuova, Calabria, Italy, in 1912, through New York City before moving on to Montreal, Quebec then New Brunswick in the coal mines, before finally settling on ...
Last year Italian courts convicted 207 people and sentenced them to a combined 2,100 years in prison on charges related to their membership in Italy's 'ndrangheta organized crime syndicate.
The 'Ndrangheta hierarchy, labeled in Italian The 'Ndrangheta structure, detailed, labeled in Italian Both the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and the 'Ndrangheta are loose confederations of about one hundred organized groups, also called cosche or families, each of which claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village, though without ever ...
The Luppino crime family, (Italian: [lupˈpiːno]) also known as the Luppino-Violi crime family, [2] is an 'Ndrangheta organized crime family [3] [4] [5] based and founded in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in the 1950s by Giacomo Luppino.
Hunting members of Italy's mafia, 'Ndrangheta It may not look like "The Godfather" or "Goodfellas," but Southern Italy is in the grips of a crime syndicate much bigger than the Cosa Nostra, the ...