The police in Italy are cracking down on the mafia. Just recently, 18 Mafiosi were arrested – now the Carabinieri has cracked down again.
Palermo – Investigators have arrested twelve suspected members of an influential mafia clan from Palermo on the Italian island of Sicily.
The judiciary accuses the suspects of Cosa Nostra, among other things, of mafia association and cultivation and trafficking of drugs, as the carabinieri announced. On July 6, they arrested 18 suspected mafiosi from the Porta Nuova clan, named after the neighborhood in Palermo.
This was preceded by a murder at the end of June this year within the clan and knowledge of tensions among the mafiosi, which is why the investigators assumed that there could be an escalation of violence, it was said. The investigating judge therefore also prevented the forthcoming release of a suspected mafia member who had already been arrested, as information was available that he could take revenge for the murder of his son at the end of May 2021.
The mafia in Palermo earns their money with drug trafficking, among other things. During the arrest on Saturday night, four suspected criminals were jailed and eight remained under house arrest. dpa
