The Catalan police (Mossos d'Esquadra) and the National Police launched an operation Monday morning against a drug trafficking ring based in Catalonia. Following an investigation coordinated by Europol, the police are seeking to dismantle a Turkish gang involved in trafficking marijuana and cocaine, but which also trafficked in weapons, according to sources consulted by ARA. The police have made 19 arrests, 14 of them in Catalonia. The investigation began a year ago, and the operation is now in full swing. Arrests have been made in Barcelona, ​​Teià, Sabadell, Tordera, and Lloret de Mar. In addition, two people have been arrested in Málaga, and six others are under investigation in Greece. Specifically, the accused are allegedly responsible for receiving the drugs in Catalonia—they did not produce them—and distributing them to other parts of Europe, where they fetch much higher prices. One of the police raids was at a bar in Poble Sec. In total, more than 200 officers are involved.

In the early hours of July 2, 1994, Italian judge Paolo Adinolfi said goodbye to his wife and two children with a "I'll be back later, see you for lunch" and left home. However, that midday, no one sat down at the table. The 52-year-old judge parked his BMW in front of the Church of San Valentino in northern Rome and disappeared without a trace. Since then, his family has not heard from him again. Thirty-one years later, Italian police are searching for his remains in the basement of the former mansion of Enrico Nicoletti, considered the "treasurer" of the "Banda della Magliana," a now-defunct mafia that took hold in Rome between the 1970s and 1980s. Financial and canine units have been excavating the cellars of this residence, now the Casa del Jazz, a well-known concert hall, for days. The mansion, surrounded by a garden of over 25,000 square meters and near the Baths of Caracalla, had been seized from the Mafia. A week after excavations began eight months ago, investigators discovered a 500-meter underground tunnel and a hidden shaft beneath the current recording studio, equipped with ground-penetrating radar, thanks to the identification of an access door to the tunnel. According to several local media outlets, two underground chambers were identified during the investigation in an area adjacent to the house. However, Italian authorities are maintaining absolute secrecy. The reopening of the case comes after a complaint filed with the Public Prosecutor's Office by former judge Guglielmo Muntoni, who has never stopped searching for clues about Adinolfi's disappearance. "We will not stop until we get to the bottom of this and clear the tunnel," Muntoni declared this week. The former magistrate had suspected for 29 years that Adinolfi's body might be found beneath the House of Jazz.

The Court of Appeal of Rome has confirmed this Monday the convictions of one of the bosses of the Camorra –the Neapolitan mafia–, Francesco Bidognetti, and his lawyer, Michele Santonastaso, for the threats made in 2008 against the writer Roberto Saviano and against Rosaria Capacchione, a journalist for the newspaper The Morning of Naples. These threats changed the life of the author of Gomorrah, who has since lived with a bodyguard.

The Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's most influential mafia group, has officially informed the police of its intention to end a period of bloody internal conflict that has lasted more than ten years. In a letter sent on April 7, the Yakuza leaders pledged to cease hostilities with the factions that splintered in recent years. However, the Japanese authorities have received this announcement with caution, knowing that control over mafia groups remains a delicate issue.

Vittorio Boiocchi, the long-time leader of the Curva Nord, the Inter Milan ultras collective, was shot five times in October 2022 outside his home near Milan. He was 69 years old and had known links to the Calabrian Facchineri clan and the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. On April 11, two and a half years after the events, Italian police arrested six men linked to a murder that investigators believe was linked to a rivalry to control lucrative activities around the Giuseppe Meazza stadium (the name of San Siro when Inter plays) on match days and over the hierarchy.

Vittorio Boiocchi, the long-time leader of the Curva Nord, the Inter Milan ultras collective, was shot five times in October 2022 outside his home near Milan. He was 69 years old and had known links to the Calabrian Facchineri clan and the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. On April 11, two and a half years after the events, Italian police arrested six men linked to a murder that investigators believe was linked to a rivalry to control lucrative activities around the Giuseppe Meazza stadium (the name of San Siro when Inter plays) on match days and over the hierarchy of the Curva Nord.