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Jun 2023
27m 22s

Inside the operation to bring down Italy...

THE TIMES
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The ‘Ndrangheta mafia got their start kidnapping for money but now import billions of pounds worth of cocaine into Europe every year. A pan-European raid earlier this month led to the arrest of 155 people and the seizure of 23 tons of drugs. So could this finally break a crime organisation whose roots go back hundreds of years? 

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Guest: Tom Kington, Italy correspondent, The Times.

Host: Luke Jones.

Clips: ABC News, Al Jazeera, DW News, Reuters, NBC News, Euronews, AP, VIC.



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