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Millions of euros of assets seized in Mafia probe
Palermo :: Italy | 8 hours ago
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Sicilian finance police seized 48 million euros worth of assets in a Mafia probe related to public tenders for methane gas conversion in Sicily. The assets included businesses, prime real estate assets and funds. Investigators believe notorious Cosa
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Turin book fair closes with record attendance
Turin :: Italy | 2 days ago
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Turin's 26th edition of the Salone Internazionale del Libro, the city's book fair, closed Monday with record attendance, organizers said. More than 329,000 visitors, 4% more than last year, flocked to the event since its opening May 16. Sales were
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Video from prison show Mafia's Provenzano looking frail
Rome :: Italy | 2 days ago
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New video showing Mafia kingpin Bernardo Provenzano looking old and frail behind prison bars has triggered new complaints about his case. The video clips, aired on a public affairs program on television network LA7, are raising doubts about the
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Prosecutors move to indict Riina for 1984 train bombing
Florence :: Italy | 12 days ago
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Prosecutors in Florence on Friday issued an indictment request to try Mafia 'boss of bosses' Salvatore Toto' Riina for a 1984 train bombing that left 16 people dead and 267 wounded. Riina, known as The Beast, is already in prison under maximum
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Camorra mafia underground hideaway discovered near Caserta
Villa Literno :: Italy | 29 days ago
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Carabinieri police discovered and seized on Tuesday a subterranean hideaway used by a faction of the Casalesi clan of the Camorra mafia in the outskirts of Caserta, north of Naples. The sophisticated refuge was located under a house belonging to a 51-
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Riina jr. 'proud' to be son of Mafia 'boss of bosses'
Rome :: Italy | 1 month ago
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Giuseppe Salvatore Riina, son of Salvatore 'Toto'' Riina, the most powerful Sicilian Mafia boss in the 1980s and early 1990s, on Friday defended his father and said he was proud to carry his family name. "It is a surname that was given to me by two
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Provenzano plea to escape top-security regime turned down
Palermo :: Italy | 1 month ago
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Justice Minister Paola Severino on Tuesday turned down a plea from former Cosa Nostra head Bernardo Provenzano to remove him from a top-security prison regime due to his declining health. "Having examined the documentation presented by the lawyers, I
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Goods valued at 30 million euros seized in Mafia probe
Agrigento :: Italy | 1 month ago
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Authorities on Tuesday said they seized six companies with property valued at about 30 million euros from two men allegedly linked to a fugitive Mafia boss. The companies, controlled by entrepreneurs Francesco Morici and his son Vincenzo Morici, are
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Riina to remain under 41-bis prison regime
Rome :: Italy | 1 month ago
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Mafia 'boss of bosses' Salvatore 'Toto' Riina is to remain under the maximum-security prison regime even though he is suffering from heart disease, the Supreme Court of Cassation ruled on Monday. The sentence came in response to an appeal by his
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Boy stabbed to death in fight with fellow teen near Caserta
Aversa :: Italy | 1 month ago
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A 15-year-old boy died early on Monday after being stabbed in the heart by a fellow teen in the southern Italian town of Aversa, near Caserta. Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy who is suspected of the homicide. Four other teens were also injured
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