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Italian police arrest over 30 in Mafia raids

The police operatives seized items worth more than €4 million ($3.8 million).

• September 28, 2022
Italian police

Italian police have arrested more than 30 people suspected of being members of the Mafia or their accomplices in a series of nationwide raids.

The Carabinieri’s early morning raids targeted a Cosa Nostra gang, police in Catania said on Wednesday.

Some 250 police officers were involved in the operation.

Those arrested were suspected members of a mafia organisation involved in extortion, drug trafficking and illegal weapons possession.

The police also arrested one of the bosses of the Santapaola-Ercolano clan.

The police operatives seized items worth more than €4 million ($3.8 million). 

(dpa/NAN)

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