Photo: DPAGerman intelligence agencies believe that the Italian mafia have clearly increased their presence in the Bundesrepublik since 2008. Mafia activities in Germany first came to the public's attention in 2007 when a shoot out between two mafia groups in front of an Italian restaurant in Duisburg left six people dead. The number of investigations of mafia groups has also been small when compared to how often the state goes after jihadists. Over the past 10 years, 102 investigations have been opened against Italian mafia groups, a number dwarfed by the 900 investigations of jihadists that are expected to take place in 2017 alone. “The low number of investigations into the Italian mafia can be taken as an indication that there are not enough detectives available to investigate organized criminality,” said Mihalic.

Source: The Local August 16, 2017 07:41 UTC