According to Italian media, the local police managed to decipher the text, which is certainly used when initiating newcomers into the ranks of one of the largest and oldest criminal organizations in the country.
Earlier this year, as part of the investigation into the murder of one of the mafia leaders, Vincenzo Femia, a special raid was carried out on one of the streets of the Italian capital. As a result, his Roman carabinieri found in the apartment of a member of the San Luca clan, a member of the mafia group Ndragheta, several sheets of paper with handwritten text on them. For some time, the police tried to find out what the meaning of the paper message was, but their attempts were unsuccessful.
Later, the text fell into the hands of two law enforcement officers who are keen on solving crosswords and puzzles. It was they who managed to understand what secret the obscure cipher hides, somewhat reminiscent of the hieroglyphs of Ancient Greece or Ancient Egypt. As soon as they correctly deciphered the symbol "C", they gradually realized what the unusual scripture was all about. It turned out that on three sheets of paper the text of the initiation into the ranks of one of the most influential and wealthy criminal organizations was written, which gained authority and status through drug trafficking, extortion, and other types of fraud. The find of the Roman police suggests that Ndrageta uses special ancient rituals and language in its “work”. For example, in the text there are such lines: "Walking along the seashore, I noticed three sailors in a boat."
One of the group’s members, who was detained by the police in Rome during one of the raids, noted that law enforcement officers absolutely accurately translated obscure characters, and also said that if a newcomer is supposed to take his blood to join Ndrageta, he’s given it three attempts.
If he doesn’t succeed, the initiation is postponed for at least six months. In this unusual kind of sacrament, which should be held in a “sacred and secret place”, the presence of five members of the group is necessary, but the detainee remembered that when he joined the ranks of the mafia, only two were at the ceremony.
The "Ndrageta" grouping today represents a real threat not only to Italy, but also to all of Europe, the country's authorities say. More than once, representatives of the Italian government have been negotiating with EU leaders on the need for urgent measures aimed at combating an influential criminal structure.
Originally originated in the south of the country, Ndrageta has spread throughout the country today, as evidenced by the murder of one of its leaders in Rome.
Moreover, there is evidence that representatives of this group were seen in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and other European states. Some sources claim that the criminal organization’s annual income is tens of billions of dollars, some of which the heads of mafia clans invest in a very legal business - garbage collection.
