Climbed on a rocky wall like a daring fly climber, from the slopes to the peaks. He climbed the heart of the Aspromonte and that of the 'Ndrangheta. The beating heart of one of the largest criminal organizations in the world. San Luca, the extreme point of Calabria, is not a country like the others. Here, as the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate writes, «the 'Ndrangheta is breathed, the' Ndrangheta is inherited. The 'Ndrangheta families ensure control of the territory through generational continuity ”. A village of three thousand souls, from an altitude of 36 meters above sea level up to an altitude of 1,955. From here they control the neighboring territory like no other, they sight the horizon, from Germany to Sardinia. In these steep houses on the land of Calabria there are all the districts and clans of the Ionian side: the 'Ndrina Nirta, the' Ndrina Pelle, the 'Ndrina Strangio, the' Ndrina Romeo and the 'Ndrina Giorgi.
From eggs to slaughter
It was February 10, 1991 when a group of young people linked to the Strangio and Nirta clans, called "Versu", threw eggs at a "recreational" club run by Domenico Pelle, one of the "Gambazza" men, in the middle of the carnival. In the collision of the eggs on the walls, the sketches reach the car of one of the Vottari. It is the beginning of the end. Those eggs first become the feud and then the massacre of San Luca. The escalation is an endless crescendo. They kill each other in clusters, until the showdown in a foreign land. The massacre takes place in Duisburg. It is mid-August 2007. At the hands of the Strangio clan, 6 people are killed in front of an Italian restaurant in Duisburg, on German soil. It is the advanced point of the criminal war between the bloodiest clans in the history of 'Ndrangheta.
From San Luca to Sardinia
From San Luca to the shores of Lake Constance, in the German Land of Baden Wuerttemberg, from Brazil to Sardinia, the step is short. The criminal history of 'Ndrangheta is boundless, the only passport that is recognized is that of shady deals, to be consumed with blood and the most bloody unscrupulousness. To think that the Isola dei Nuraghi, mistakenly considered impenetrable and repellent to organized crime, could become the protagonist of this universe, long ago, would have been a prediction to be branded as cheap alarmism.
