Son of Italian family dubbed The Barbarians ‘found dead in burnt out van’

A bloody Mafia feud could beryllium reignited aft the assemblage of the lad of a crime brag was discovered successful a burnt retired car.

Antonio Strangio, 42, was missing for a week earlier his assemblage was recovered successful a burnt retired SUV successful San Luca, Italy – the ‘spiritual home’ of the deadly ’Ndrangheta, which dominates the planetary cause trade.

The mob’s roots are successful the Italian portion of Calabria, but they person reportedly expanded to much than 40 countries worldwide and proceed to turn astatine a dependable rate. 

They are progressive successful a wide scope of organised transgression activities, from cause trafficking and wealth laundering to extortion and the rigging of nationalist contracts.

Michele Albanese, a section writer who has lived nether constabulary extortion owed to his reporting connected the Mafia, warned that the concern could go ‘hellish’ if Strangio’s decease was related to a long-running feud with different family.

Strangio’s father, Giuseppe, runs a subdivision of the household known arsenic the ‘barbarians’ for their convulsive tendencies.

Antonio Nicaso, a prof of organised transgression astatine Rome university, told section media: ‘If this was an onslaught connected the Strangios, repercussions would beryllium inevitable.

‘We volition cognize soon enough. The ‘Ndrangheta has ever known however to pass efficaciously without utilizing galore words.’

Giuseppe Strangio, the begetter of the slain Antonio, kidnapped Cesare Casella successful 1988 and held him captive for 2 years earlier releasing the teenager.

The ‘Ndrangheta mafia had 19 of their members arrested earlier this year, after a transgression ringing was recovered to beryllium down extortion, battle and cause trafficking.

Unlike different mafia syndicates, ‘Ndrangheta run arsenic a escaped conferate of hundreds of groups alternatively than 1 unified ‘family’.

There are estimated to beryllium astir 10,000 members worldwide, with astir operating successful the confederate Reggio Calabria region.

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