‘Hanger war’: How Italy's fast fashion hub became a Chinese mafia battleground

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Prato - When Zhang Dayong was found lying in a pool of blood on a sidewalk in Rome, hit by six bullets, there was nothing to suggest a connection with Prato, the heart of the Italian textile industry. But a "war of the hanger" rages in this city north of Florence, which transforms the largest clothing manufacturing centre in Europe, a pillar of Made in Italy, into a field of conflict between rival Chinese mafia groups. To such an extent that Pra…

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The Italian heart of fast fashion: companies that are quickly opened and closed.