200 held in anti-Mafia sweep
20/03/2007 14:51  - (SA)  

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Rome - Italian police said they arrested nearly 200 suspected members of the Neapolitan Mafia, the Camorra, in a dawn sweep on Tuesday involving about 1 000 officers.

"Prosecutors issued about 200 arrest warrants and we acted on 180," said a spokesperson for the press service of Italy's financial police.

"Most of these people were accused of drug dealing but some are also accused of trafficking. In some cases we arrested whole families," added the spokesperson.

The arrested people belong to the two historic clans of the Camorra, which control the drug trade in central Naples, the Guiliano and the Mazzarella clans.

 

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