Italian investigators have found a link between Islamic terrorist groups and the Camorra, one of Italy’s main organised crime groups, a top anti-Mafia investigator said on Monday. “We have evidence that groups of the Camorra are implicated in an exchange of weapons for drugs with terrorist groups,” Pierluigi Vigna, Italy’s national anti-mafia prosecutor, told reporters at the foreign press club. Asked what kind of terrorist groups, he said: “Islamic terrorist groups.” Vigna, whose Rome-based office coordinates the work of magistrates investigating organised crime in Italy, said he could not give more details. Pressed further, he suggested the cooperation came about after a member of the Camorra, the Naples-area version of the Sicilian Mafia, converted to Islam and met in prison with Muslims who had been arrested in Italy. Full Story
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