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The defendants had been charged with crimes that include drug and arms trafficking, extortion and mafia association, a term in Italy’s penal code for members of organized crime groups. Others were charged with acting in complicity with the ’ndrangheta without actually being a member.
Italy on Monday opened its largest trial in decades against organised crime as hundreds of people stand accused of membership in the 'Ndrangheta, one of the world’s most powerful, extensive and wealthy drug-trafficking groups. The proceedings revealed countless examples of the mafia's stranglehold on the local population including carrying out violent ambushes, shaking down business owners, stockpiling weapons and leaving dead dolphins on the doorsteps of people who oppose them.
Italy's largest mafia trial in more than 30 years opens, as prosecutors seek to strike a blow against the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate, whose tentacles reach worldwide. More than 350 alleged members of the mafia and the politicians, lawyers, businessmen and others accused of enabling them face a judge in a specially converted courtroom.
The family and lawyers of two US students arrive for court in Rome on the first day of their trial over the fatal stabbing last year of a policeman during a botched drugs bust. Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth have been charged with killing newlywed Mario Cerciello Rega, 35, who was stabbed 11 times during the attack last July.
After close to a three-year-long trial, hundreds of accused individuals associated with one of the country's most influential organised criminal groups, the 'Ndrangheta', face sentencing.
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