Italian police take on the Mafia in Calabria

Nigeria News.Net
Friday 9th May, 2008

The Italian police arrested nine people in a large-scale anti-Mafia operation in the south of the country on Friday.

Eight of the arrests were made in the province of Calabria.

A ninth suspect was detained in the northern city of Udine.

They include the wife and sister of Francesco Vottari, the head of a prominent Mafia family.

Last year a feud between the Vottari clan and a rival family led to the killing of six Italians in the German city of Duisburg.

According to the police, none of Friday's arrests are in connection with the Duisburg killings.

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