Pope condemns organised crime group for destroying fabric of society
The Pope, in a homily yesterday for tens of thousands of people from all over the region that forms the “toe” of Italy, said the area seemed to be in a constant state of emergency and that he wanted to encourage the people’s efforts to improve their condition.
“This is an area … where problems exist in acute and destabilising forms, where crime groups that are often ferocious tear at the social fabric, a land that seems to be in a constant state of emergency,” he said.
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Hide AdCalabria is home to the Ndrangheta, considered among the most dangerous and powerful crime syndicates in western Europe. Investigators believe the highly secretive Calabrian group has overtaken the Sicilian Mafia to dominate drug trafficking and extortion rackets.