(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 7 - Italian police on Thursday made 59 arrests in a blitz against Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia clans.
    The Carabinieri of the Catanzaro Provincial Command carried out an operation Thursday morning, in the district of Lamezia Terme, to execute precautionary custody orders issued by the investigating judge at the request of the Catanzaro DDA anti-mafia investigative directorate against the 59 people, 50 of whom were detained in prison and the remaining nine placed under house arrest.
    The suspects are accused to varying degrees of 'Ndrangheta-type association, criminal association aimed at drug trafficking, also aggravated by mafia methods and purposes, as well as numerous crimes, also aggravated by mafia methods and purposes.
    'Ndrangheta is Italy's richest mafia thanks to its virtual control of the European cocaine trade, and also its most powerful and dangerous having eclipsed Sicily's Cosa Nostra.
    (ANSA).