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Mafia deeply entrenched in Australia
DAYS after police smashed a multimillion-dollar drug ring with alleged mafia links in Sydney and Mildura, a new report by Italy’s top anti-mafia investigators has named several Calabrian mafia clans...
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Italy: Mafia attack blamed for halting Easter procession
Vibo Valentia, 6 April (AKI) – Prosecutors in the southern Italian town of Vibo Valentia are investigating the alleged intimidation of a local priest by Calabrian mafia gunmen which led to the...
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Italy: Southern mayor’s killer allegedly hiding in Colombia
- Angelo Vassallo - Salerno, 29 Nov. (AKI) – The alleged killer of southern Italian mayor Angelo Vassallo is a suspected mafia extortionist and drugs trafficker believed to be hiding in the Columbian...
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Italy: Suspected mafia thugs ‘threaten to decapitate Sicilian senator’
- Carlo Vizzini - Thugs in the Sicilian capital, Palermo on Monday threatened to decapitate conservative Italian senator Carlo Vizzini and an anti-mafia campaigner who he works with. Thugs in the...
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Mafia assassination threat forces Brazil MP into exile
- The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, where more than 300 areas are believed to be controlled by mafias. - Rio human rights activitist Marcelo Freixo and family to leave after credible...
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Anti-mafia campaigner draws on gay struggle
Champion of the south … Rosario Crocetta is congratulated as the results of the election come in. Photo: AFPROME: A gay man who shrugged off three mafia plots to kill him is poised to become Sicily’s...
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Brother of jailed Casalesi boss Michele Zagaria arrested
Antonio ZagariaAntonio Zagaria nabbed in street of home town (ANSA) – Caserta, November 20 – Italian police on Tuesday arrested the brother of jailed Casalesi clan boss Michele Zagaria, Antonio, in an...
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Anti-mafia campaigner Roberto Saviano sues gangsters who ordered his death
Roberto SavianoGomorrah author confronted Camorra bosses Francesco Bidognetti and Antonio Iovine via video link Italy’s most prominent anti-mafia campaigner has appeared in court to sue the mobsters...
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Italian council chief blocks filming of anti-mafia TV series in Naples suburb
Antonio Mennetta, described by police as the head of the powerful Girati clan of Scampia, is arrested after months on the run. Photograph: Ciro Fusco/EPAAngelo Pisani refuses to allow cameras into...
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