Rome, May 21 -- Italian military police, the Carabinieri, said on Wednesday they had issued warrants to 97 people as part of a nationwide operation targeting the notorious Ndrangheta mafia group.
"Some of the most important 'Ndrangheta clans are affected, whose members are accused of mafia-type crimes, aiding and abetting the mafia, drug trafficking, including international drug trafficking, drug possession and trafficking, extortion, kidnapping for extortion, mafia-type political election collusion, and possession and carrying of weapons," the statement read.
The operation focused on the southern region of Reggio Calabria. Its goal was to dismantle an alliance of drug-trafficking gangs forged by provincial clans to establish monopoly ove...