Oct 20 2008
Turncoats leaving as police and army up pressure
Naples — The Camorra clan Italy has sent the army against is feeling ”hunted” as turncoats desert it, Italian anti-Mafia police said on Monday. Continue Reading »
Oct 20 2008
THE Vatican has defended Pope Benedict’s decision to avoid direct condemnation of organised crime during a trip to an area infested by the Camorra, one of its most ruthless manifestations. Continue Reading »
Oct 17 2008
Rome — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said the Mafia would be ‘erased’ from the country, amid reports of several Mafia-linked arrests in Italy on Friday. Continue Reading »
Oct 16 2008
Rome - Italian police arrested Thursday the boss of a mafia family which, with another criminal clan, is involved in a long-standing, bloody feud, including the so-called 2007 “Duisburg Massacre” in Germany, officials said.
The 46-year-old Antonio Pelle was captured in what police described as a specially-built underground bunker hideout on a farm near the southern town of Locri in the Calabria region. Continue Reading »
Oct 15 2008
Even Italy’s crack Folgore paratroopers could not save 60-year-old Stanislao Cantelli from the Mafia.
Two days after Silvio Berlusconi, centre-right prime minister, sent 500 troops to reinforce police in the Naples area after a spate of killings, the Mafia delivered their blunt response. Continue Reading »
Oct 14 2008
ROME — Police in Italy are looking into reports that the Naples mafia plans to carry out its threat to kill the author of the best-selling book “Gomorra,” which has been made into a hit movie about mafia brutality, by Christmas. Continue Reading »
Oct 13 2008
Italian police have carried out a raid on the shadowy Calabrian mafia, arresting three government officials and two suspected mafia leaders. Continue Reading »
Oct 13 2008
Police are investigating a break-in at the home of an Italian journalist who has been threatened with death by the Mafia for writing hundreds of articles on organised crime. Continue Reading »
Oct 11 2008
ROME — Police in the Naples area arrested seven alleged mobsters on Saturday, including an actor who played a boss in an award-winning movie denouncing the mafia. Continue Reading »
Oct 07 2008
Italy’s Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, has described it as a civil war – and 18 bullets pumped into an innocent man playing cards on a Sunday morning proved him right.
Stanislao Cantelli was the uncle of two supergrasses and distantly related to another local mafia boss but he had led a blameless life. Having recently retired from his job as a technician in a mozzarella cheese factory, he was often seen pottering around the town of Casal di Principe in his battered Fiat Punto. For relaxation, he repaired to the Circolo Sociale Ricreativo, a shop converted into a social club on Via Umberto I, to play poker. Continue Reading »
