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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.
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.
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.
Journalists gather outside the courtroom in Italy's southern Calabrian town of Lamezia Terme, where the largest mafia trial in more than 30 years is set to begin. IMAGES outside the court
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