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Priest refuses to pay Mafia's Christmas tax
Naples :: Italy | about 4 hours ago
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Don Mario Ziello, the priest of the Santa Maria del Carmine alla Concordia parish, used his weekly sermon to denounce Mafia extortion attempts. During work to repair fire damage to his church, in Naples' Spanish quarter, at least two men approached workers...
Tags: christmas tax, Naples, Italy, Mafia, Crescenzio Sepe
Suspect arrested in Murcia as Italian police move against the Sicilian mafia
Palermo :: Italy | about 13 hours ago
Credibility A further 9 people were arrested in Palmermo for links to the Sicilian mafia's former boss of bosses A suspect has been arrested in Murcia in connection with an operation by police in Italy against the Sicilian mafia which saw nine people taken into custody...
Tags: sicilian mafia, Murcia City, Italy, Palermo, Pentiti, Giuseppe Guttadauro, Mafia, Bernardo Provenzano, Vito Vitale, Law Crime
Italian police say they broke up major mob clan
Rome :: NY :: USA | about 15 hours ago
Credibility Italian police have broken up a major mafia clan, issuing 83 arrest warrants and seizing businesses, land, race horses and a London-based online betting company, officials said Tuesday. Local politicians and businessmen in the southern Italian city of...
Berlusconi hits out at claims of Mafia inquiry
Florence :: Italy | 3 days ago
Credibility Mafia one of its clearest and coherent goals, it is my government," he said. Evidence from a Cosa Nostra mobster who has turned state witness has prompted prosecutors to reopen an inquiry into the Sicilian Mafia's bomb attacks in 1993 on Rome, Milan and...
Tags: Silvio Berlusconi, Mr Berlusconi, Cosa Nostra, prime minister, Italy, Florence, Mafia, A.C. Milan, Marcello Dell'Utri, Forza Italia, Vittorio Mangano, Fininvest, Pentiti, Politics, Giuseppe Graviano, Salvatore Cancemi, Mediaset, David Mills, Renato Schifani, Editto Bulgaro, Law Crime, Italian politicians, Mangano
The Garbage Problem of Naples, Italy - Is the Mafia to Blame?
Recently Naples, Italy has gotten a great deal of press time on account of their garbage issue. Debris is piled outside people’s homes, on the street, seemingly everywhere with no definite pickup schedule in sight. A visitor might perceive Naples...
Reputed Mexican Mafia leader charged in extortion scheme
La Puente :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Ralph "Perico" Rocha, 42, was ordered held in lieu of $4-million bail at the Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles. Rocha was arrested without incident Nov. 19 as he was about to leave his Moreno Valley home, said Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve...
Tags: Ralph 'PePerico' Rocha, mafia leaders, extortion scheme, federal prison, Norwalk, La Puente, Mexican Mafia, Mafia, Extortionists, Sureￃﾱos, Law Crime
Dec. 4 set as new trial date for Berlusconi corruption case; new judges to be appointed
Milan :: Italy | 4 days ago
Credibility A new panel of judges will formally open Premier Silvio Berlusconi's bribery trial on Dec. I am confident that if we have a new, impartial judge, Berlusconi will be acquitted," the premier's defence lawyer, Niccolo Ghedini, told reporters after a brief...
Tags: Silvio Berlusconi, Mr Berlusconi, Italy, Milan, David Mills, A.C. Milan, Law Crime, Trials involving Silvio Berlusconi, Marcello Dell'Utri, Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Giuseppe Graviano, Forza Italia, Tessa Jowell, Vittorio Mangano, Prime Ministers of Italy, Mafia, Mediaset, Tessa Jowell financial allegations, Perjury
Police release suspect photo in string of Italian cafe firebombings in Montreal
Montreal :: Canada | 4 days ago
Credibility Police have two suspects in a string of firebombings of Montreal's Italian coffee shops...A handful of cafes have been hit with Molotov cocktails in recent weeks, although nobody has been hurt in the overnight attacks. Continued Below Police recently...
Tags: Canada, Montreal, Gangs, Sociology, Crime, Mafia, Urban decay, Criminology, Police, War Conflict
The holiday that helps fight the Mafia
Brussels :: Belgium | 5 days ago
Credibility The holiday that helps battle the Sicilian mafia Once a stable, this building in Corleone sits on land seized from Cosa Nostra's "boss of bosses", Salvatore Riina Francesco Galante throws open the shutters, revealing a view of fields of bright green...
Tags: Cosa Nostra, Mr Galante, Salvatore Riina Francesco Galante, Corleone, ones land, Belgium, Brussels, Pentiti, Pizzo, Mafia, Antonino Calderone, Corleonesi, Sicily, Salvatore Riina
Italy: Senate leader target of 'mafia death threat'
Palermo :: Italy | 5 days ago
Credibility Italian police have stepped up security for senate president Renato Schifani and his family after he received suspected mafia threats. The government's top official in the southern city of Palermo, Giancarlo Trevisone, revealed the security measures in...
Tags: Renato Schifani, Italy, Palermo, Mafia
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