Sep 25 2008
Palermo — Italian Mafia bosses were given at least 100 free ticket to football games whenever Sicily’s professional team, Palermo, played at home, according to police prosecutors.
The seats were given to the Mafia bosses and divided among members of the Mafia ‘families’ of Palermo, reported Italian daily La Repubblica on Thursday. Continue Reading »
Sep 24 2008
• Defense Minister: Majority of the troops would be sent to Naples area
• This follows the murder of six people by local Camorra clan last week
• Second time since 1990s that army has been sent in to combat Mafia crime
The Italian government has approved the creation of a new task force of 500 soldiers who will be deployed to combat the recent wave of Mafia crime in the country. Continue Reading »
Sep 24 2008
Explosive Palermo President Maurizio Zamparini has stressed that his club is completely clean from any association to the Mafia, and has boasted that any such crime organizations cannot touch the Rosanero while he is in control.
The city of Palermo, as the capital of Sicily, has always had its inevitable links to the Mafia, with the Italian island widely regarded as the birthplace of the Cosa Nostra. Continue Reading »
Sep 24 2008
Prison escapee was ‘unrecognisable’, police say
Milan — A convicted mafia killer who changed his appearance after escaping from prison has been nabbed by police at a Milan beauty parlour.
Salvatore D’Avanzo, 46, was caught while getting a tattoo of a Samurai warrior – one of many treatments since he absconded from jail in April that investigators said had made him ”unrecognizable”. Continue Reading »
Sep 24 2008
Six African immigrants were killed last week in a suspected Camorra drug feud north of Naples.
ROME — The Italian government Tuesday ordered the deployment of a military task force to fight a wave of violence by the Neapolitan mafia, which culminated last week in the slayings of six African immigrants in a suspected feud over drug turf. Continue Reading »
Sep 23 2008
The centre-right Cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi today approved the deployment of 500 troops for three months to take on the Mafia in Caserta, close to Naples, where six African immigrants were gunned down last week.
The Government, which took office in May, deployed 3,000 troops during the summer to patrol alongside police in Italian cities as part of a crackdown on street crime and illegal immigration. Continue Reading »
