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Italy's Fast Fashion Hub Becomes Chinese Mafia Battlefield
PRATO, ITALY, AUG 3 – The Chinese mafia exploits cheap migrant labor and controls 5,000 apparel businesses in Prato, with workers earning as little as €3.40 per hour, prosecutors say.
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Italy's fast fashion hub becomes Chinese mafia battlefield
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When Zhang Dayong lay in a pool of blood on a sidewalk in Rome after being shot six times, few suspected a link to Italy's storied textile hub of Prato. But a "hanger war" is raging in the city near Florence -- turning Europe's largest apparel manufacturing centre and a pillar of Made in Italy
The Chinese mafia war in Italy is intensifying. Chinese immigrants who have infiltrated the garment industry have established an underworld and expanded criminal networks of tax evasion and drug trafficking. The turf war is unfolding across Europe, and investigations are beginning to take hold. The epicenter is the ancient city of Prato in central Tuscany.
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