Italian police have arrested 63 people in raids in the southern Calabria region aimed at the ’ndrangheta organised crime gang.

The leader of a mob that killed six people in Duisburg, Germany, in 2007, that shed international light on the ’ndrangheta organised crime syndicate, has been jailed for life today.

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Some 300 people were arrested today as Italian police carried out a major crackdown on a powerful crime gang in a pre-dawn swoop, news reports said.

A VETERAN mobster was arrested after 17 years on the run, but a sympathetic crowd cheered him yesterday as he was escorted out of a police barracks and taken to jail.

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Italian police today arrested a wanted gang leader believed to be part of an organised crime clan involved in the massacre of six people in Germany last summer.

Italian police have captured the top boss of the powerful 'ndrangheta organised crime syndicate whose clan feuds have bloodied the southern region for years.

POLICE arrested 32 suspected mafiosi yesterday and were hunting for eight others linked to a mob feud blamed for the execution-style killings of six Italians in Germany.

Italian police were arresting scores of suspects today in a crackdown on organised crime clans believed to be involved in a feud that claimed the lives of six Italians in Germany earlier this month.

The bodies of three of the six victims of last week’s Mafia killings in Germany have arrived in Italy, as authorities debated how to handle security at the funerals amid fears of new mob violence.

WE quote him all the time but many people don’t seem to realise that Neil Armstrong went all the way to the moon only to fluff his lines.

Police today captured one of Italy’s most dangerous mob fugitives as the state pressed its war on the ’ndrangheta, the Calabrian crime syndicate believed to be overtaking the Sicilian Mafia in dominance.