Number one in the cocaine market, earning more than 53 billion Euros a year, the Ndrangheta is the most powerful branch of the Italian mafia. Their members are enrolled young into this huge organization, seen as a family to whom you owe loyalty.
From extortion to drug dealing, the Ndrangheta is involved in many businesses around the world. Heavily armed, the organization has a stranglehold on the Calabrian economy.
We meet the rare and brave few that are fighting against the organisation and accompany the police on the raid of a port and the arrest of a ’Godfather’. A look at the Mafia which has a stranglehold on Southern Italy.
After the arrests of the Mafia godfathers, Italy hoped that it had put an end to organized crime. Instead, a new generation of mobsters has emerged.
More infoDecades of illegal dumping haven’t just poisoned the land and water. Child cancer rates are unusually high and the air is toxic.
More infoIn the ‘Ndrangheta, the largest and most feared of the Italian mafias, women never betray. Blood ties and ancestral ties still hold tight.
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