Duisburg / Reggio Calabria --
The mafia killings of Duisburg. Six people were on the 15th August 2007 outside a restaurant "Da Bruno" shot.
Now, sit, or at least believes Italy's Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, all offenders behind bars. And a courageous prosecutor has brought there - also thanks to the help of Duisburg colleagues.
Giuseppe Lombardo, anti-mafia prosecutor in Reggio Calabria. Because he was so brutally determined in the secretive clan, he must fear for his life. At the beginning of the year, a bomb exploded outside his official residence.
Then a parked car was found with explosives, while Italian President Napoletano visited the city. Last Lombardo found in his mail a letter with no return address with a pistol bullet. In the cover letter read: "Take care of your own." Otherwise he would end up like the judges Falcone and Borsellino, who were murdered in 1992 by Sicilian Mafiosi.
The Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, within Italy, now the most dangerous Mafia organization with assets worth an estimated 7 billion euros, threatening their fighters. However, Lombardo's authority has struck again. There were seven arrests on Thursday. And two new arrest warrants for direct involvement in the massacre of Duisburg.
The warrants there was for Sebastiano Nirta (38), the brother of Maria Strangio (33). It was on 1 Christmas Day 2006 in Calabria by members of warring clans Pelle-Votari been shot - gave rise to the bloody feud. Sebastiano Nirta said to have left traces in Duisburg. In wiretapped conversations, he was so from clan members as an "imbecile" insulted.
An arrest warrant was also Giuseppe Nirta (36). He had been sitting since November 2008 but is now a convicted murderer from Duisburg, boasted to Mafia-outs as a real planners of the killings. Third, the alleged assassin Kaarster pizza maker Giovanni Strangio (31), who was caught in March 2009 in Amsterdam. When a process starts, is still unclear.
