The Covid-19 containment measures put in place in Italy have led authorities in the country to nab a senior mafioso belong to the ‘Ndrangheta clan which based in the south of country.
The ‘Ndrangheta is an Italian Mafia-type organized crime syndicate based in the region of Calabria, dating back to the 19th century. In recent decades they have overtaken the Sicilian mob as the most powerful, wealthy and feared Italian mafia clan.
Cesare Cordi (42), described by police as a “leading figure of the ‘Ndrangheta of Locri” in southern Calabria, had been on the run since August when a when a judge issued a warrant for his arrest.
Italian police were tracking Cordi for days and found him at a house in the town of Bruzzano Zeffirio, a small town on the Southern Italian coast in an operation made far easier due to the lockdown restrictions imposed in the country due to the deadly Covid-19 outbreak.
After China, Italy is the hardest hit nation in the world by the Covid-19 outbreak with close to two thousand people having died as on Monday and at least 25,000 other cases of the disease having been confirmed.
In a statement the police of the province of Reggio Calabria, who staged the raid said
“The faint glow of a cigarette — caught through the crack of a shutter — was enough to give the carabinieri the certainty that in that house was the wanted man.”
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