Italian police decipher code believed to detail mafia initiation ceremony
Italian police believe they have decoded a document written in a secret language that they hope describes the secret initiation process for one of the most notorious mafia crime syndicates of the past two decades.
Police found the document while investigating the murder of Vincenzio Femia, who was shot in the streets of Rome last January. They say that it was written by members of the ‘Ndrangheta, the criminal organization based in Calabira in southern Italy that is believed to be the most powerful cocaine smugglers in all of Europe.
Detectives found the document in Rome last year alongside guns and ammunition when they were investigating the murder of a high-ranking ‘Ndrangheta member. It consists of three notebook pages covered in what at first appears to look like Ancient Greek.
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In the century and a half since then, the ‘Ndrangheta has usurped the Cosa Nostra as the most influential mafia group in Italy, spawning approximately 160 cells throughout the world with 6,000 members, according to the FBI.
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