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Five life sentences confirmed for boy's Mafia killers
Palermo :: Italy | 2 months ago
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A Palermo appeals court on Monday upheld five life-sentences meted out in the lower court for the kidnapping, detainment and murder of the son of a Mafia criminal turned government witness. Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 13-year-old son of mobster-turned-
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Italy: Key turncoat to testify at general's mafia trial
Rome :: Italy | 8 months ago
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A key Sicilian mafia informant will testify at the trial of an Italian general accused of helping jailed mafia 'boss of bosses' Bernardo Provenzano avoid capture in 1993. Gaspare Spatuzza, who admits having murdered dozens of people, will on 5
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Italy: Police 'make arrest' over anti-mafia judge's 1992 murder
Palermo :: Italy | 2 years ago
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Police have arrested a member of the Sicilian mafia over the 1992 assassination of judge Paolo Borsellino in the southern city of Palermo, investigative magazine L'Espresso reported on its website Tuesday. The man arrested is Fabio Tranchina, a
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Italy: Journalists receive 'death threat' in Palermo
Palermo :: Italy | 3 years ago
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Journalists at the Palermo bureau of one of Italy's biggest newspapers has received a threatening letter containing a bullet. The letter also targets anti-mafia investigators, an informant and prominent Italian TV journalists. The letter complained
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Stiffer Mafia term sought for Dell'Utri
Palermo :: Italy | 3 years ago
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An appeals prosecutor on Friday asked for an 11-year Mafia jail term for Marcello Dell'Utri, a senator in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PdL) party and the architect of the media magnate's reincarnation as a politician in the early
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Italy: Govt moves to curb mafia witnesses
Palermo :: Italy | over 3 years ago
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The Italian government has announced measures to limit the admissibility of evidence given by witnesses in mafia trials. Under a bill tabled by a key senator from Italy's ruling People of Freedom (PdL) party, evidence given by witnesses at mafia
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Minister in Berlusconi's cabinet ordered to stand trial on corruption charges
Palermo :: Italy | over 3 years ago
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A minister in Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's government has been ordered to stand trial on corruption charges. The Ministry for Regional Affairs said Raffaele Fitto was indicted Friday by a court in Bari, southern Italy...Prosecutors allege he
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Former neo-Fascist is Berlusconi's rival
Rome :: Italy | over 3 years ago
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He has emerged from the fringes of a neo-Fascist party to position himself as the heir apparent to Premier Silvio Berlusconi. Gianfranco Fini, a chain-smoking politician who once called Benito Mussolini the 20th century's greatest statesman, has
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Italy: Justice minister claims mafia 'on its knees'
Palermo :: Italy | over 3 years ago
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The conservative Italian government has brought the mafia "to its knees," Italy's justice minister Angelino said on Wednesday, urging prosecutors to work even harder to defeat it. His comments followed the arrest last Saturday of the Sicilian mafia's
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Berlusconi neglecting job: Italians
Paris :: France | over 3 years ago
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Are Italians finally getting tired of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose repeated gaffes, conflict of interest and entanglements with the law have brought shame and opprobrium upon his countrymen's heads? An estimated 3,50,000 people marched
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