*Mafia raids: Police in Italy and Germany make 169 arrests*
Police in Italy and Germany have made 169 arrests in an anti-mafia swoop, Italian police say.
Assets worth €50m (£44.06m; $59.79m) were seized in the operation targeting the 'Ndrangheta organised crime group.
As part of the group's activities, German restaurants were forced to buy wine, pizza dough and pastries made in southern Italy, police say.
The 'Ndrangheta network is based in southern Italy but has expanded its reach into the rest of Europe, the BBC's James Reynolds reports from Rome.
Nicola Grattari, the Italian prosecutor in charge of the investigation, described the arrests as the most important step taken against the 'Ndrangehta in the last two decades.
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