More than 100 people arrested in raids against the Calabrian mafia in several European countries

() — The European Police carried out raids in several European countries in the early hours of this Wednesday, as part of an investigation into the Calabrian mafia, according to the Belgian federal prosecutor.

“This morning, a large-scale European operation took place in several countries. This is a case opened by the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office, in collaboration with the Limburg Prosecutor’s Office, the Federal Judicial Police, Eurojust, Europol and several countries, in particular Italy,” the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

Italian authorities arrested 108 people in Italy as part of an investigation on charges of “mafia-like association,” the Italian Carabinieri said in a statement on Wednesday.

The arrests were made by Carabinieri Ros and the Reggio Calabria Provincial Command in Italy in conjunction with raids carried out in Germany, Belgium, France, Portugal, Romania and Spain, the Carabinieri statement said.

In a joint statement on Wednesday, German city prosecutors said “forces from Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland” were involved in the “large-scale operation,” which took place across Europe.

In Belgium, more than 20 raids were carried out as part of the operation, the federal prosecutor’s statement says.