Ndrangheta Members Arrested; La Santa Induction Rite Videotaped
A video of one conversation between clan leaders and Italian transcription can be seen here . Italian anti-mafia police arrested 40 Ndrangheta members in northern Italy this week, and even filmed a "series of initiation rites," according to IBT . The video clip above contains reference to La Santa, a "secret society within a secret society." According to Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style by Letizia Paoli, the santista rank was established at the end of the 1960s by Girolamo Piromalli, leader of the Piromalli family in Gioia Tauro, along with bosses of other families, to create a way around traditional Ndrangheta rules forbidding drug trafficking.