Sweep of Spada-clan rivals in Ostia

(ANSA) - Rome, October 23 - Carabinieri police on Tuesday arrested 42 people in an operation targeting a criminal organization suspected of being rival to the Spada mafia clan in the Rome seaside district of Ostia. The suspected head of the organization is an elderly man who was in the past considered a senior member of other gangs, sources said.
    The operation took place in Campania, Tuscany, Lombardy and Marche as well as in Lazio, the region around Rome.
    Some two million euros in assets were seized from suspects.