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The former head of the armed forces and president of Guinea-Bissau, Antonio Indjai, in a 2012 photo. Photo by Andre Kosters/Epa (via Ansa)

Drug trafficking, the importance of Guinea-Bissau for the mafia

In 2021, a referent of the Italian mafia-type association 'ndrangheta met with the son of the former president of Guinea-Bissau. The country has renewed importance in drug trafficking from Latin America to Europe, thanks to "figures at the top of …

Rosita Rijtano

Rosita RijtanoGiornalista

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The Italian antimafia association Libera sheds light on crime in ports: "Politics still timid"

Libera, the italian Anti-Mafia Association, has prepared "Diario di bordo," a study on the activities of criminal groups in Italian ports. Criminal gangs don't just do drug trafficking: focus on counterfeiting, smuggling and waste trafficking.

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A technical shoe made using Pfoa, a substance capable of waterproofing the fabric. Photo by Noel Oviedo/Unsplash

An IARC study confirms that PFOAs are carcinogenic and toxic

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has published a document confirming the hazardous nature of perfluorooctanoic acid, which is used as a waterproofing coating for technical sportswear, leather and paper, among other things

Laura Fazzini

Laura FazziniGiornalista

'Ndrangheta, local roots and global opportunities

'Ndrangheta, local roots and global opportunities

The Calabrian Mafia remains rooted in tradition, but it is surviving and adapting in the Old Continent, as the Eureka investigation shows.

Anna Sergi

Anna SergiProfessoressa in Criminologia, University of Essex (Uk)

2007, San Luca. A group of women wait in the church for the coffins of Francesco Giorgi, Sebastiano Strangio and Marco Marmo, three of the victims of the Duisburg massacre in Germany (P. Cito/Ansa)

The Eureka investigation reveals the borderless business of the 'ndrangheta

The 'ndrangheta's business is mainly related to drug trafficking, and the dirty money is then used for economic activities in Italy and abroad

Francesco Donnici

Francesco DonniciGiornalista

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