Police across Europe make 150 raids in anti-mafia swoop

(ANSA-AFP) - BRUSSELS, MAY 3 - Police in eight European countries raided 150 addresses Wednesday in a vast, coordinated swoop targeting the notorious Italian 'Ndrangheta mafia, Belgian prosecutors said Wednesday. "It is likely the biggest operation ever carried out in Europe against the Calabrese mafia," a spokesman for the federal prosecutors' office, Eric van Duyse, told a news conference. He said 1,400 police officers in Italy were involved in the raids, revising down a figure of 3,000 prosecutors had given earlier in a statement. He said also that more than 1,000 police officers in Germany took part. Van Duyse said the European raids were triggered from a Belgian prosecutors' investigation opened five years ago "under the greatest secrecy". (ANSA-AFP).

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