This World - THE MAFIA'S SECRET BUNKERS
BBC2 (not Scotland), BBC Two HD, Wed 1st May 9pm - 9:59pm
Repeat:BBC2 ScotlandToday 11:20pm Mafia historian John Dickie visits the tip of the toe of the Italian boot, otherwise known as Calabria, to tell the story of Italy’s most powerful crime network.
Born out of prison gangs in the 1880s, the Calabrian mafia, or ’Ndrangheta, has always extended its influence beyond its geographic heart. It cemented its power by dealing with South American cocaine-producing cartels in the 1980s, and this murderous criminal brotherhood is now Europe’s biggest cocaine trafficker. This is Dickie’s specialist subject and he has access to the bunkers members use as hide-outs, as well as the hi-tech investigation taken by the Italian authorities. Can ordinary people trust the state to bring down the ’Ndrangheta?
Author and Mafia historian John Dickie investigates the 'Ndrangheta, one of the most powerful crime syndicates in Italy and among Europe's biggest cocaine traffickers. He gains access to the underground bunkers in Calabria the gangsters use as hideouts, and learns about the hi-tech war being fought by the Italian authorities against them, despite a culture of fear and silence in which people simply do not trust the state to defeat the mafiosi. Part of the This World strand.
PresenterJohn Dickie
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