Sanne de Boer

And also, yeah, I would say at least an Italian problem or a problem that is a little bit of the past.

And the main difference is that that's only around that time is exactly when

The drangata, like in the 90s, what they also became known for was their horrible bomb attacks and killings of many state figures.

That had a great impact on Italy, of course, and that created a reaction of the state.

They became law enforcement, really targeted the Sicilian clans, and the drangata took advantage of that.

And they had been clever enough to stay under the radar, to not really engage openly in such killings.

And they took over the cocaine business basically from the Sicilian clans and were very smart about keeping a lower profile.

They became very big in the cocaine smuggling into Europe.

The Netherlands was a big part of that.

We have a lot of ports that have allowed the cocaine to enter, in a sense, into Europe.

So that was their success story in a sense, yeah.

Yeah, I could, you could say more serious, more, they're very strategic in that sense.

They really found out the sneakiest way to be, I guess, to be a Mafia.

They're especially cruel to their members.

A lot of the membership, well, the membership in principle is passed on from father to son.

So it's all these men in families.

Then you can, there are arranged marriages between women in the clans.

with other clans that they might want to collaborate with or they might have to sort of have a peace offering with after a feud.

So it's a very family-based, which helps them, of course, to keep all the criminal information safe and sound within the family walls.

Very important.