Jonic sending The local of San Luca (RC) has always been considered as the criminal epicenter of the 'ndrangheta in its territory as the symbol of the place of Sanctuary of the Madonna di Polsi, in the past historic seat of the summit52 mafiosi.

The one of San Luca is considered, among all the premises of 'ndrangheta, as the depositary "mamma" of the tradition, of the "saggezza" and of the rules establishing the "valoriale" heritage of all mafia clans.

Decree 38/21 Prov. Seq. (n. 88/21 RGMP) of 7.6.2021 – Tribunale di Reggio Calabria.

In the sense, the operation "Terramara-Closed" (proc. pen. 1253/2014 RGNR DDA - 4501/2016 RGNR DDA - 2087/2012 RGNR DDA - 1694/2014 RGNR DDA) concluded the 12 dicembre 2017 from Carabinieri and Polizia di Stato.

The 3 novembre 2016, the operation "Lex", led to the arrest of 41 affiliates to the two criminal joints.

Proc. pen. n. 1364/11 RGNR DDA of Reggio Calabria and pen. n. 422/10 RGNR - 3234/10 RGIP of the Court of Palms.

13 dicembre 2011 the Carabinieri of Gioia Tauro carried out 21 crime suspected stopping measures issued by the DDA regimen and 5 OCC issued by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Palms for mafia association, extortion, threat, usury, damage, cultivation and drug dealing,

To which they participated, On the occasion of the Marian celebrations that are celebrated the first of September of each year, the representatives of all the premises, where they decided business, they planned wars of mafia and remedied disputes.

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SEMETRAL REPORT TO PARLIAMENT In San Luca53 the mafia clans PELLE-VOTTARI-ROMEO54 and NIRTA-STRANGIO55 will be active, whose long and fierce contrast is vented in the now known Duisburg massacre of 15 agosto 2007.

Riguardo al recupero dei patrimoni mafiosi, il 7 luglio 2022, la DIA, nell'ambito di un'attività coordinata dalla Procura reggina, ha eseguito la confisca56 di 5 immobili, 8 aziende, di disponibilità finanziarie e orologi di pregio, per un valore complessivo di 15 milioni di euro, nei confronti di un imprenditore locale con interessi sviluppati non solo a Reggio Calabria ma anche a Milano, a Sezana (Slovenia) e a Londra (Regno Unito) in diversi settori di impresa al fine di reimpiegare i proventi illeciti delle cosche DE STEFANO, ARANITI e NIRTA-BARBARO.

At the same time as the confiscation, the decree in word has also laid down, on the subject, the application of the measure of personal prevention of special public security surveillance with obligation to stay in the Municipality of residence for the duration of 4 years.

The first, with which the GUP of Reggio Calabria, the 28 luglio 2022, condemned, at the outcome of the trial with abbreviated rite "Defender", 6 defendants to more than 14 years imprisonment for favouring the latitude of a boss of the mafia clan PELLE, arrested in 2018.

Still, the 8 novembre 2022, with the condemnation inflicted by the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria, at the end of the process "European 'ndrangheta connection" (filone "Pollino" of the DDA of Reggio Calabria) always with abbreviated rite, to 33 exponents of the mafia clans of the jonico mandate (PELLE-VOTTARI and ROMEINI Jonica), totalling over 300 years of recruitment for international drug trafficking along the Antwerp-Rotterdam route.

In Platì, the mafia clan BARBARO-TRIMBOLI-MARANDO would remain active.

Of particular importance still some convictions that have involved the northern projections of the mafia clans on the subject, such as that issued, the 17 ottobre 2022 to the outcome of the "Platinum" process, charged with 18 inns at the mafia clans of San Luca and Platì, active in Piedmont, for a total of over 150 years of imprisonment.

In Bovalino and Platì (RC), the 24 agosto 2022 the DIA has performed, the seizure57 of 4 properties, a company and 2 financial availability, for a total value of 200 thousand euros, to load of

In the territory of San Luca there are also additional families, variously linked to the two main areas and in particular:

PELLE alias "Vanchelli", GIAMPAOLO alias "Ciccopeppe", GIAMPAOLO alias "Nardo", GIORGI alias "Suppera", MAMMOLITI alias "Piantuni", NIRTA alias "Terribile", ROMEO alias "Terrajanca", STRANGIO alias "Fracascia"

Of this partnership is part the 'ndrina PELLE "Vancheddu", the 'ndrina ROMEO alias "Staccu", the 'ndrina VOTTARI alias "Frunzu", the 'ndrina GIAMPAOLO alias "Russello" and the 'ndrina PELLE alias "Gambazza" all tied by kinship and/or comparison.

Of this sodalizio is part the 'ndrina NIRTA alias "Scalzone", the 'ndrina GIORGI alias "Ciceri"; the 'ndrina STRANGIO alias "Jancu", the 'ndrina NIRTA alias "Versu", the 'ndrina MAMMOLITI alias "Fischiante", the 'ndrina GIORGI alias "Boviciano"

Decree n. 57/22 Prov (n. 47/20 Prov. Seq. and n. 43/20 RGMP) of the 2 febbraio 2022 of the Reggio Calabria Tribunal.

n. 43/22 Prov. Seq. (n. 50/22 RGMP) of 4 luglio 2022 – Tribunale di Reggio Calabria.

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a prominent representative of the mafia clan BARBARO of Platì, active in the field of public procurement. The order came from a targeted proposal for the application of a preventive measure formulated jointly by DIA and Procura of Reggio Calabria.

In the premises of Africo, it would work the mafia clan MORABITO-PALAMARA-BRUZZANITI in respect of, the 6 luglio 2022, the Tribunal of Reggio Calabria, within the process "Bellu Lavuru 2", pronounced 4 convictions, 9 absolutions, totaling 24 years of recruitment with representatives of the mafia clans of the low jonio bra of the Municipalities of Africo, Bova Marina and Palizzi (BRUZZANITI-PALAMARA, MAISANO, RODÀ, VADALÀ and TALIA) with reference to the modernization of the SS 106.

In the Jonian side is the local of Siderno with the mafia clan COMMISSO, opposite that of the COSTA.

Also in the Municipality of Marina di Gioiosa Ionica would be active a 'ndrangheta locale within which the mafia clans AQUINO-COLUCCIO and MAZZAFERRO, mainly dedicated to the traffic of drugs that extends, through qualified criminal welds, also to the Centre-North and abroad, in particular, in the north Europe, South America and Australia.

In the area of Gioiosa Jonica (RC) will operate the mafia clans JERIN and SCALI-URSINO-URSINI, federated with the COSTA of Siderno, whose core business consists of the traffic of weapons and narcotics.

In Monasterace (RC) and in the neighboring ones of Stilo, Riace, Stignano, Caulonia and Camini would operate the mafia clan RUGA-METASTASIO-LEUZZI, having links with the mafia clan GALLACE, active in the nearby Guardavalle (CZ).

In the Municipality of Stilo (RC) the operation of a new 'ndrangheta locale, confederated at the "locale" of Gerocarne (VV) 58. In the context of Caulonia the mafia clan VALLELONGA59 would be active.

Di Caulonia sono originarie anche le famiglie MAIOLO e MANNO colpite, il 12 dicembre 2022, dagli esiti dell'operazione "Caino"60 coordinata dalla DDA meneghina ed eseguita dalla Polizia di Stato di Milano con l'arresto di 10 esponenti delle succitate famiglie, attive nel milanese "locale di Pioltello", responsabili di associazione mafiosa, traffico di stupefacenti, estorsione, tentato omicidio, usura, armi ed altri reati.

The territory of Locri would still be divided between the two mafia clans CORDES and CATALDO, which, after forty years of bloody feud, would have reached a stable agreement for the division of illicit affairs. The 6 luglio 2022, in Locri (RC) and in the provinces of Catanzaro, Pavia, Terni

The results of the operation "Double Sgarro" - Proc. pen. n. 4442/14 RGNR DDA (here the proc. pen. n. 2094/18 RGNR DDA) - 2791/15 RGIP DDA – 9/21 ROCC.

These consorteries have been affected by the operation "Confine" (Faida of the woods – proc. pen. No.

3190 RGNR DDA - 2438/10 RGGIP – DDA) the 8 agosto 2012 and the process results of this investigation, which led, the 8 gennaio 2014, to the conviction of 8 defendants, for a total of 42 years of imprisonment.

With this judgment has been recognized the existence of an operating mafia association between Caulonia (RC) and the Stilaro valley.

N. 13979/19 and n. 10106/20 RGNR RG GIP issued by the Milan Court the 22 novembre 2022.

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RELAZIONE SEMESTRALE AL PARLAMENTO ed Udine, l'Arma dei carabinieri, all'esito dell'operazione "New Generation - Riscatto 2"61, ha dato esecuzione ad un'OCC emessa dal GIP di Reggio Calabria a carico di 29 imputati, a vario titolo, di associazione mafiosa, traffico di stupefacenti, detenzione di armi e dimunizioni, danneggiamento, estorsione pluriaggravata, traffico e spaccio di banconote false.

Development of the previous "New Generation" (started in 2016 after the fire of the buses of a public transport company) and "Riscatto" (which involved the illicit management of the cemeteries of Locri from the mafia clan CORDES until 2019), the investigation documented the strong regenerative capacity of the "new levers" of the mafia clan in replacing the vertices repeatedly affected over time by numerous judicial measures.

The rise of young people within the mafia clan CORDES has been highlighted, even in the most recent investigations, with the renewed control of the territory implemented through the management of the drug and extortion, as well as with the commission of numerous intimidating acts.

D'interesse anche la decisione adottata dalla Corte di Cassazione il 15 settembre 2022, all'esito del processo con rito abbreviato "Arma Cunctis", con la quale è stata confermata la condanna già emessa a carico di 18 esponenti delle cosche COMMISSO e CATALDO di Siderno e Locri, per oltre 40 anni di reclusione, responsabili di associazione per delinquere finalizzata al traffico di armi clandestine, traffico di sostanze stupefacenti, detenzione e porto illegale di armi.

Operation "Mevolution Jonico" (July 2017)62 would document the operation in Locri also of the AVERSA-ARMOCIDA, URSINO and FLOCCARI, satellites of the two main mafia clans CORDES and CATALDO.

In the municipality of Sant'Ilario dello Jonio (RC) is active the mafia clan BELCASTRO-ROMEO, while in Municipality of Careri (RC) are active the CUA-RIZIERO, IETTO and PIPICELLA families, linked to the nearby mafia clans of San Luca and Platì. In the Municipality of Bruzzano Zeffirio (RC) the mafia clan TALIA-RODÀ would be active.

In the Municipality of Antonimina (RC) would operate the mafia clan ROMANO, ad Ardore (RC) the mafia clan VARACALLI, in Canolo (RC) the mafia clan RASO, in Ciminà (RC) the mafia clans NESCI and SPAGNOLO and in Cirella di Platì (RC) the mafia clan FABIANO63.