The 'Ndrina Barreca is a Calabrian 'Ndrangheta clan based in Reggio Calabria, active in the southern area of the city since the 1980s. It split from the Ambrogio clan after the Pellaro feud in the late 1980s. The clan has been involved in drug trafficking, extortion, and violent conflicts, with several members becoming collaborators of justice. It has been targeted by multiple police operations, including Valanidi 2 and Barracuda.
CRIMENET has extracted 32 linkages for this organization, including 17 cooperative ties across 12 organizations, 11 conflicts across 10 organizations, 4 other connections and footprints in 1 country.
In 2013, Giovanni Franco, a high-ranking member of the Barreca 'ndrina, was arrested in Antibes , France . He was located in a residential neighborhood at the outskirts of Antibes, where he was found in the garden of a villa that served as his refuge.