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(ANSA-AFP) - BRUSSELS, MAY 3 - Police in eight European
countries raided 150 addresses Wednesday in a vast, coordinated
swoop targeting the notorious Italian 'Ndrangheta mafia, Belgian
prosecutors said Wednesday. "It is likely the biggest operation
ever carried out in Europe against the Calabrese mafia," a
spokesman for the federal prosecutors' office, Eric van Duyse,
told a news conference. He said 1,400 police officers in Italy
were involved in the raids, revising down a figure of 3,000
prosecutors had given earlier in a statement. He said also that
more than 1,000 police officers in Germany took part. Van Duyse
said the European raids were triggered from a Belgian
prosecutors' investigation opened five years ago "under the
greatest secrecy". (ANSA-AFP).
