Cosa Negra

They deal with drugs and women, are considered "extremely brutal" and control their victims through voodoo. In Italy, the Nigerian mafia competes with the classic mafia, from where it spreads throughout Europe. The authorities were in the dark for a long time. Until they found the "Green Bible". Weltwoche has obtained a copy of this secret set of rules of the Nigerian MAPHITE and sketches the dimension of its potential for violence in Europe.

The discovery by Italian police of  "The Green Bible" was crucial to their biggest break-through yet in the struggle to free Italy of the Nigerian Mafia which in less than a decade has infested the country - thanks to mass illegal immigration across the Mediterranean.
It led to the arrest of 33 Nigerians in July this year in Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna accused of being not just common or garden criminals but key members of a brutal Mafia clan called the MAPHITE. The clan's boss of bosses who lives in Parma was due to be arrested as well but remains at large probably in Cologne in Germany where his wife and children live and where thanks to the EU sacred principle of free movement h ...