Nebrodi mafia operation nets 23 arrests

(ANSA) - Messina, May 30 - Police executed arrest warrants for 23 people on Monday in relation to investigations into mafia clans operating in Sicily's Nebrodi national park.
    Seven people were put under house arrest while the others were taken to jail.
    Monday's operation was part of a wider crackdown after Nebrodi nature reserve chief Giuseppe Antoci survived an assassination attempt on May 18.
    Antoci had been sent bullets in the mail for trying to stop mafia farm businesses illegally using protected park land for grazing.
    On Friday some 80 finance police officers searched the premises of 30 farm assistance centers that manage public financing requests.
    Among the people arrested on Monday was Antonio Foraci, considered by investigators to be an emerging boss in the Tortorici area with business relations with powerful families belonging to Calabria's 'Ndrangheta mafia.