cocaine sold in the UK goes to a secretive paramilitary crime syndicate few Brits have ever heard of. There are three main organised groups based in Italy.
While we might describe them all as "The Mafia," that name properly belongs to the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia. That immensely powerful clan has formed a second shadow government of Italy since the 1900s.
It even negotiated with the Americans before the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War 2. A second grouping, the Naples-based Comorra, is well known to Netflix viewers through the gripping crime series Gomorrah, which drew a devoted audience before its shock cancellation in May this year.
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