Daughter of Judge Murdered by the Mafia addresses a vigil in memory of assassinated journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia

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Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated on October 17, 2017

Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated by a car bomb on the 17th October 2017. Repubblika and Occupy Justice, two non-profit organisations pressuring the government to ensure her killers are all brought to justice, organized a vigil in memory of the journalist on the fourth anniversary of her death.

Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Wife Indicted in the US

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Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of jailed Cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested at Dulles International Airport in Virginia in February 2021. It is alleged that she was heavily involved in running the cartel with her husband and also of helping him escape from US and Mexican authorities.

Camorra ‘Van Gogh boss’ arrested in Dubai

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Van Gogh’s “View of the Sea at Scheveningen,” (1882) was one of the two paintings stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002. (Photo: Van Gogh Museum, Wikimedia)

Raffaele Imperiale, one of the top drug traffickers of the Camorra, was arrested in Dubai. The Camorra mafioso was linked to the 2002 theft of two early Van Gogh paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

The ‘Ndrangheta, Cryptocurrencies and the Dark Web

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The Italian Anti-Mafia Directorate (DIA) report that the ‘Ndrangheta is becoming increasingly tech-savvy, using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Monero to transact anonymously on the dark web.

Mexico sues the US Gun Industry for causing 17,000 Mexican deaths a year

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The lawsuit accuses the American government of being responsible for 17,000 Mexican deaths, and names Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Glock and others.

In Mexico there is very strict gun control. There is only one gun store in the entire country, and the government issues less than 50 gun permits a year. However it is estimated that half a million guns are smuggled into Mexico from the US annually. According to the lawsuit in 2019, 17,000 Mexican citizens were murdered with guns manufactured in the U.S.