Clans ‘smashed’
The police have said that they have smashed several Mafia clans when they arrested 834 suspected gangsters in southern Italy in a vast operation using 8700 paramilitary Carabinieri. Thev recovered 291 stolen cars and one billion lire ($NZ993.850) in stolen money, seized 175 shot-guns and military rifles and 140 hand-guns, and impounded explosives and drugs. The police, backed by dogs and helicopters, caught 548 people in the act of crimes and arrested 286 on existing warrants.— Palermo.
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