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2007-08-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Six Italians shot dead in execution-style killing in Germany

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#2 Six Italian men were shot dead in a western German city on Wednesday in an execution-style killing. Italy's interior minister said it appeared to be part of a feud between two Italian organised crime clans.

The six victims were found in two vehicles near the main train station in Duisburg. One of the men died while being taken by ambulance to a hospital, police spokesman Hermann-Josef Helmich said. All had gunshot wounds to the head. Helmich said the men, aged between 16 and 39, were Italians, but gave no other information on their identities.

In Rome, Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said the killings apparently were part of a feud between two rival clans involved in the 'ndrangheta crime syndicate, which is based in Italy's southern Calabria region and believed to have international involvement in drug and arms trafficking, extortion and other crimes.

Amato said one of the victims in Duisburg apparently was involved in the original feud, known as the "San Luca feud" for the Calabrian town where it began in 1991. The shootings in Germany were "an unprecedented settling of scores because it took place in a foreign country for the first time," Italy's ANSA mews agency quoted the deputy head of the Regio Calabria police, Luigi De Sena, as saying. De Sena said: "The presence of Calabrians in Germany is very strong, but until now they always kept a low profile, trying not to attract attention."

Duisburg police said there had not previously been Mafia activity in the city, located at the western end of the Ruhr industrial region.

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