"Never let a good crisis go to waste" - the Italian Mafia in Germany, apparently

Explanation:

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 opened another fundamental chapter in the history of the expansion of Italian mafia organisations in Germany, and especially for ‘ndrangheta. This event, with the consequent reunification of East and West Germany, opened a new frontier and new spaces for the conquest of the Italian mafias in Europe. Mafias had a fundamental role in the start-up of business activities in the East of the country, essentially for one reason: they controlled a lot of liquidity obtained with drug trafficking and enterprises started in West Germany.

https://mafianeindanke.de/en/why-ndrangheta-is-a-problem-for-germany-as-well/