{"id":87499,"date":"2023-11-14T11:38:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T11:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/?p=87499"},"modified":"2023-11-14T11:38:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T11:38:57","slug":"inside-the-life-of-the-mafias-most-wanted-man-who-cant-move-without-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/world-news\/inside-the-life-of-the-mafias-most-wanted-man-who-cant-move-without-escort\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the life of the Mafia’s most wanted man who can’t move ‘without escort’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A man dubbed the Mafia\u2019s most wanted is forced to live a life of secrecy and security in a bid to avoid assassination.<\/p>\n

    Mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, 65, has spent much of his life taking on one of the most powerful crime syndicates in the world \u2013 the \u2018Ndrangheta.<\/p>\n

    He\u2019s from Calabria in the south of Italy which is, funnily enough, also where the Ndrangheta call home.<\/p>\n

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    Sky<\/u>News reports that Mr Gratteri is forced to regularly mix up his routes to work at the public prosecutor's office in the regional capital of Catanzaro in a bid to outfox potential threats. <\/p>\n

    Mr Gratteri goes to work in an armoured car convoy \u2013 one vehicle of which is fitted with a signal jammer that is designed to stop bombs from being remotely activated.<\/p>\n

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    He has survived multiple assassination attempts and as such has to have police protection at all times.<\/p>\n

    He has been forced to operate in this way for 30 years and is understood to be more security dependent than the prime minister of Italy.<\/p>\n

    Speaking to the outlet he explained: "I can't do anything without a police escort\u201d.<\/p>\n

    He added: "Inside my house, it's like Big Brother. There are security cameras everywhere, even in the garden where I feed my chickens."<\/p>\n

    Some 300 Mafia victims are on his list of people he is working with, people for who he is the \u201clast resort\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    He has been a lawyer since the 1980s and has since made it his mission to fight organised crime.<\/p>\n

    Talking about growing up, he said: "I saw so many people killed, I saw such violence. The sons of the 'Ndrangheta bosses behaved like little mafia bosses at school. They were violent like their fathers".<\/p>\n

    He noted that his pal's father was killed when the lad was only 11 and never spoke again after that.<\/p>\n

    The boy, plotting to get revenge, was later killed too as he got out of his car.<\/p>\n

    Within a few years on the job, Gratteri explained: "I felt the 'Ndrangheta breathing down my neck\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    Bullets were fired into the door of his fiancee\u2019s home and then she received a call at 2am telling her she was going to marry a \u201cdead man.\u201d<\/p>\n

    He said: "I've lost count of the threats, the anonymous phone calls, the media pressure\u201d.<\/p>\n

    In 1993, he escaped three assassination attempts in three weeks and in 2005 a police bust found weapons and bombs planned for use on him.<\/p>\n

    There has even been an underground bunker courtroom in Lamezia Terme built for an ongoing \u201cmafia maxi trial\u201d, a location he deems \u201cone of the safest places\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    He is forced to live apart from his wife and they only meet up in safehouses.<\/p>\n

    The sacrifices he has to make are huge, adding: "I see my children for half an hour every two months but ours is a strong relationship. It's not the time we spend with our children, but the intensity of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

    He continued: "I haven't taken a dip in the sea for 30 years, even though it's very close\u201d.<\/p>\n

    But despite this, he explained: "I never think of stopping, I always want to do more."<\/p>\n

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