'Ndrangheta: dozens of arrests. A mayor is also in handcuffs

Maxi-operation of the police against the 'Ndrangheta in Rome and its province and also in Calabria .

The blitz led to dozens of arrests: 43 are the precautionary measures signed by the investigating judge of Rome at the request of the Roman DDA .

Some are accused of being part of a local 'Ndrangheta, rooted in the capital and aimed at acquiring the management and control of economic activities in various sectors , fish, bakery, pastry, the withdrawal of skins and exhausted oils.

As part of an investigation related to the operation conducted in the capital, the mayor of Cosoleto , Municipality of Reggino, Antonino Gioffré was arrested .

His name, according to investigators, appears in the list of 34 subjects reached by a custody order issued by the investigating judge at the request of the Dda Reggio against the Alvaro-Penna clan of Sinopoli. The investigation is linked to that of the Rome DDA.

In the Calabrian strand of the investigation, 29 people ended up in prison and 5 under house arrest. Gioffré is accused of electoral exchange between the political and mafia, as according to the accusation he would have favored the recruitment of another subject under investigation.

(Unioneonline / lf)