Italian justice on Saturday sentenced 70 members of the ‘Ndrangheta, Italy’s most powerful mafia group, and others to 10 years or more in prison for 30 of them, in the biggest trial against the mafia since the late 1980s.
Judge Claudio Paris read the verdicts against 91 defendants in the large courtroom in the city of Lamezia Terme, southern Calabria, where a major trial has been taking place since January against hundreds of alleged members of the ‘Ndrangheta and their collaborators.
There are still 355 defendants to try and the process is expected to take more than two years. The investigations took years and culminated in search operations in December 2019.
‘Ndrangheta, which operates in Italy’s poorest region, Calabria, controls most of the cocaine that arrives in Europe. The famous anti-Mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri – whose efforts to defeat the ‘Ndrangheta forced him to live under police protection for more than 30 years – said everything “went very well” today.
“Of the 91 accused, 70 were convicted,” Italian news agency AdnKronos reported, noting that those acquitted had fewer responsibilities. Some of the most dangerous received the maximum 20-year sentence requested by prosecutors.
About a third of the group was sentenced to 10 years or more and 21 people were acquitted, according to Gratteri.
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