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The Big 'Ndrangheta Boss - Antonio Macrì

‘Ndrangheta Bosses Profiles - Antonio Macri' There have been several well-known names in the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta that have marked the history of this segment of Italian organized crime-and not only during the 20th century. And we have started to profile them. These included Antonio Macrì, a criminal born in 1904, head of the aforementioned group and head of the Commisso 'ndrina. It was he who gave birth to the Macri’ cosca or gang during the 1930s, which he led for more than four decades, until his demise in 1975. The influence of this criminal group was based in the towns of Gioiosa Ionica and Siderno, both located in the province of Reggio Calabria. The latter, especially, would later be the actual headquarters from which the Commisso-Macrì family would begin to expand its business worldwide. Macrì can be described as one of the most impressive bosses of the 'ndrangheta precisely because of his ability to get his criminal group far beyond local and national borders, so much so that he was later also called "The Boss of Two Worlds", thanks in part to the particular influence he had overseas. Many of you will recall that that is the same name of an older sicilian mafia boss, Tommaso Buscetta, whom be profiled in another video you should check out. It was Antonio Macri himself who sent Sidernese baker Michele Racco to Canada, so that he could continue his business via the opening of a new bakery in Toronto and also make him the main icon of the expansion of this criminal group in the North American country starting in the 1950s. If we step back to a few decades prior, well before he began the worldwide expansion of his 'ndrina, Macrì made himself a major player in his own right. At only twenty-seven years old, in 1929, he was given his first conviction for illegal possession of a gun. Fifteen years later, in 1944, he was first defined as the head of a criminal organization based in Siderno that was also active around the town of Reggio Calabria. It was only at the end of World War II that Macrì was also accused of leading a group that instilled terror in that same region of Reggio Calabria. As mentioned, his influence was such that he was able to slowly expand both in different parts of central and northern Italy and abroad, with particular concentration in North America - the United States and Canada- as well as South America, thanks to his contacts with various drug trafficking groups there. He did not limit the international expansion just to the Americas, but was able to reach the remote continent of Australia too. Macri remained closely connected to the world of Cosa Nostra, and in particular to two of the most representative bosses of the Sicilian Mafia: Salvatore "Totò" Riina and Bernardo Provenzano. Our channel has a lot of content on Riina and Provenzano, so make sure to check those out. Moreover, thanks to his strong relationships with various members of the sicilian underworld, it can be said that he was also particularly close to the activities of the sicilian mafia. Specifically, his ties with the head of the Corleone Clan in Sicily - Michele Navarra - in the first place, and with Luciano Leggio later led him to be one of the main actors of what came to be known as the 1967 Locri Massacre. The Locri massacre took place on June 23, 1967; it was a shootout that occurred in the course of the morning and resulted in the death of Domenico Cordì, a member of the Cordi’ 'ndrina, Vincenzo Saracino, a member of the same family, and Carmelo Siciliano, an innocent victim who was unrelated to the criminal dispute. In the course of the investigation, in addition to referring to a possible settling of accounts between the two dead men, it was also thought of a possible involvement of Antonio Macrì from whom, Cordì himself, took 1,700 of the 2,000 cartons of smuggled cigarettes sent by Cosa Nostra to the boss of the Sidernese cosca. For this he was arrested in 1968, but in 1972 both Macri’ and the two alleged hitmen involved in the massacre were acquitted for insufficient evidence. Macrì himself died prematurely, at the age of 70 because his decisions regarding the management of the 'ndrangheta did not align with the broader interests of the organization. If Macrì in fact still wanted to limit himself to traditional criminal activities, the other cosche were planning to expand their business, starting to deal with other areas such as drug trafficking which the Siderno Group in Canada, the United States and Australia had been exploiting to its advantage for so many years. In addition, it appears that the Siderno boss was trying to thwart the rise of new bosses.... Doesn’t this remind you a bit of the Godfather??