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Authorities dismantle Jalisco New Generation Cartel’s ‘office’ in Spain

Juana Viúdez — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:33:04 GMT

Spanish Police on Tuesday announced the dismantling of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel’s (CJNG) “office” in Spain. The CJNG is one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal organizations and is considered a terrorist organization by the United States. The announcement coincides with a drug trafficking operation that resulted in 20 arrests, including two high-priority DEA targets and members of the Italian Camorra involved in international distribution.

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Roberto Saviano: ‘To be believed, you have to die, like Falcone, or risk dying. What kind of world do we live in?’

Íñigo Domínguez — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMT

Last Monday, Roberto Saviano partially healed a wound opened 17 years ago. The Rome Court of Appeal, the court of second instance, ruled that in March 2008, the Casalesi clan, the most feared Camorra clan at the time, had indeed threatened to kill him. The court convicted capo Roberto Bidognetti and the clan’s lawyer, Michele Santonastaso, who had read a text in the courtroom during a major Camorra trial requesting the transfer of the case to another court, and directly accused Saviano, who had published Gomorrah in 2006, and journalist Rosaria Capacchione of influencing the judges with their information. In other words, Santonastaso placed the responsibility for a possible conviction, which later actually arrived, on them.

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How new narratives are breaking the mafia’s code of silence

Tommaso Koch — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:39:07 GMT

The rule was never to say the word aloud. However, the film In the Name of the Law breaks that silence within the first three minutes: a baron utters the word “mafia” right after a murder. It was the first time in the history of Italian cinema — and presumably worldwide.

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The Italian mafia’s tentacles in Colombia: Cheaper cocaine and ties with the Gulf Clan

Diego Stacey — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:16:30 GMT

The presence of the Italian mafia in Colombia is no longer going unnoticed. The arrests of several leaders of groups such as the Camorra and the ‘Ndragheta in recent months have demonstrated the widespread activity and great interest of these criminal structures in the South American country, the world’s largest cocaine producer. Given growing international demand for the drug, the mobsters are seeking a more direct business, without intermediaries, to reduce their operating costs. They do this with the collaboration of local groups such as the Gulf Clan, which facilitates the transit of the drug to Europe and the rest of the world.

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‘You can’t die over a sneaker’: Armed teenagers terrorize Naples

Íñigo Domínguez — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:49:33 GMT

He shot him because he had stained his €500 Versace sneakers. That is what the 17-year-old boy said after he killed another teenager, 19-year-old Santo Romano, on November 1 in San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, near Naples. And the victim had only gone to make peace; it was not even him who caused the supposed slight. When the hearse arrived at the funeral on Wednesday, in a church in the Casoria district on the outskirts of the city, Romano’s friends from class and from his soccer team gathered around the white coffin, almost not knowing how to hold it, with a paralyzing respect, because of the impression of touching death so soon, so young. “You can’t die over a sneaker,” was repeated among the mourners, a crowd so large that it blocked traffic.

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The son of a mafia boss who rebelled against his destiny

Daniel Verdú — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:38:36 GMT

A few years ago, in the center of Naples, a stray bullet in a shootout between rival clans hit a four-year-old girl. She had been sitting with her grandmother on a terrace.

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Raid targets Madrid-based Camorra clan

Francisco Mercado — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:39:01 GMT

Spanish and Italian law enforcement authorities have busted a mafia clan that ran money laundering and drug operations in both countries.

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