It's a part of globalization.
Key quote from this story about an apparent Italian mob hit in Germany: |
The slayings in Duisburg, an industrial city in Germany's Ruhr region, marked the first time a southern Italian crime syndicate has exported a vendetta, according to Italian officials.
The syndicate, known as the 'ndrangheta, is based in Italy's Calabria region, linked to crime around the world, and today considered even more dangerous than the Sicilian Mafia
| This incident would be mostly a curiosity here, were it not for the fact that there's good evidence that the boundary between organized crime of various sorts and terror groups is growing increasingly tenuous. Leaving aside hard drugs, which have financed the Taliban and others for some time, the Pentagon is concerned about street gangs morphing into urban insurgencies. When you stir in large immigrant slums, as with the French muslim banlieus, the mixture is more dangerous than authorities are admitting.. |
| My community newspaper (not WaPo or WaTi) reported the local synagogues are finding swastikas and MS-13s spraypainted on their buildings... |
| MS-13 is a huge example on our side of the Atlantic. And they're making alliances with Islamists. |
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