This 2007 event often plays out in German newspapers or documentary pieces with five key features to the story.
1. Duisburg is a German city in the north of the country and has (since the Wall came down) been a growing empire location for mafia groups (not just Italian).
2. Somewhere in Italy in the early 1990s....in absolute mafia-territory....a carnival was held in some small town. In the midst of partying, drinking and local celebration....two mafia guys tied to one single family are accidentally killed. There are various ways this story is told, but the chief feature is that by the end of that evening's events....they lay dead. In retaliation....the family reacted and avenged the killings. This event is often called the 'San Luca Feud'. These families eventually made their way into Duisburg and the escalation followed.
3. In late summer of 2007....six guys of one particular mafia family sat in their cars....in front of a local pizzeria there in Duisburg. Within a space of maybe a minute....they were all shot dead. No German on the street that day around the pizzeria....was harmed.
4. It took German police (working with Italian police) almost a year to find and arrest the chief parties responsible for the six dead guys in Duisburg.
5. The court case? Never held in Germany....oddly enough. Somewhere in the spring of 2011....they complete the case....convicting eight folks of murder and they received life in prison.
The Duisburg cops? What they've come to admit to the general public in past five years is that there is a major significant crime situation brewing....with more than a dozen mafia groups (including Arab clans, Turkish clans, Serbian clans, etc).
Classified as a mass shooting? Yes. But if you sit and really read through the whole story (worthy of a movie script).....it's just a clan on clan murder situation.....based on a misunderstanding at some local fair in Italy in 1991.
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