International Organised Crime
Thirty years ago, on the 21st July 1991, Fabio De Pandi and his family were getting into the car to return home. They had been visiting some friends who lived in Rione Traiano, Soccavo district, on the western outskirts of Naples. Suddenly all hell broke loose. A mafioso from the Puccinelli Camorra clan unleashed a … Read more
Domenico Paviglianiti, the alleged “boss of the bosses” of the ‘Ndrangheta , one of Italy’s most wanted fugitives, was arrested on the 10th August in Madrid.
7th August 70-year-old Maria Licciardi, the head or “Madrina” (Godmother) of the Licciardi Camorra, was arrested by the paramilitary Carabinieri’s special operations unit as she attempted to check in her luggage at Rome Ciampino airport.
19th July the Italian National Magistrates Association organized a meeting at the Valley of the Temples in Sicily, to honour the memory of Paolo Borsellino, who was killed by a car bomb in Via D’Amelio, near his mother’s house in Palermo on the 19th of July 1992.
The Camorra is going strong. It is trying to vanish into the background, giving the false impression that is has been weakened, but this is far from being the case.
