Rachel Donadio at the Atlantic offers a piece on the Italian organized crime group the ‘Ndrangheta.
The airport at Lamezia Terme, Calabria, in the toe of Italy’s
boot, was built in the 1970s and has not aged well. The cement facade is
punctuated by rows of round windows that resemble oversize portholes. The
parking lot is poorly paved. Beyond it rises an unfinished concrete tower, open
to the elements and
I was there one day last year
to meet Nicola Gratteri, the chief prosecutor for nearby Catanzaro, a small
city high in the hills of central Calabria. Gratteri has dedicated the past
three decades of his life to fighting a Calabria-based organization known as the
’Ndrangheta—the richest, most powerful, and most secretive criminal group in
Italy today. (Pronounced en-drahn-get-ta,
the word essentially means “man of honor”; it is believed to be derived from
the Greek andragathía, or “heroism.”)
Sicily’s Cosa Nostra has been romanticized by
the Godfather movies. The
Neapolitan Camorra has become widely known through the film and TV series Gomorrah. But the ’Ndrangheta, the least
telegenic and most publicity-shy of Italy’s Mafias, is the most aggressive.
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