Mafia
Eleven members of Rome-based mafia clan face trial over electricity theft
Suspects accused of evading bills totalling €60,000 after allegedly plugging in to neighbours’ supply
Angela Giuffrida in Rome
07, Jun, 2022 @4:20 PM
Letizia Battaglia, photojournalist who documented mafia crimes, dies aged 87
Anti-mafia journalist from Palermo scoured Sicilian alleyways in 1970s and 1980s to expose brutal violence
Lorenzo Tondo in Catania
14, Apr, 2022 @7:01 AM
Beatle v mobster: the day John Lennon put paid to a shady record label boss
Lawyer’s book reveals the inside story of the musician’s 1976 court battle with Morris Levy, a mafia-affiliated music mogul
Dalya Alberge
10, Apr, 2022 @9:00 AM
Little compassion for US inmates with organized crime ties seeking release
In spite of advanced disease and the threat of Covid, judges’ mercy tends to stop short of aging dons and gangsters
Victoria Bekiempis
25, Mar, 2022 @10:00 AM
This thing of ours: why does The Godfather still ring true 50 years on?
From Succession to the real-life drama of the Tory government, the influence of Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia film is everywhere
Danny Leigh
04, Mar, 2022 @11:00 AM
‘They torched our clubhouse’… but Sicilian rugby team won’t let mafia win
Librino’s amateur players have to guard their new pitch and facilities every night – but it’s worth it to keep children out of the clutches of Cosa Nostra
Lorenzo Tondo
19, Feb, 2022 @5:45 PM
Neomelodica: the Italian pop loved by the mob and hated by the law
Streaming has allowed the genre, sometimes sung by people with ties to the mafia, to become a national craze. Is a crackdown necessary, or merely kneejerk censorship?
Giorgio Ghiglione
04, Feb, 2022 @10:00 AM
Heavily armed police launch bid to reclaim control of Rio de Janeiro favela
State governor says surprise operation against drug gangs and mafia groups is start of ‘transformational’ occupation
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
20, Jan, 2022 @12:14 AM
Italian mafia fugitive arrested in Spain after Google Street View sighting
Convicted murderer Gioacchino Gammino tracked down in Galapagar, where he had lived undetected for 20 years
Angela Giuffrida
05, Jan, 2022 @6:05 PM
‘She understood her power’: the death of mafia boss Pupetta Maresca
Naples authorities refuse a public send-off for the convicted murderer known as Lady Camorra
Clare Longrigg
31, Dec, 2021 @5:39 PM
Assunta Maresca, first female boss in Camorra mafia, dies aged 86
Maresca, known as Pupetta, or ‘Little Doll’, found fame when she shot dead her husband’s killer in Naples at the age of 18
Angela Giuffrida in Rome and Clare Longrigg
30, Dec, 2021 @2:54 PM
FBI searches for Jimmy Hoffa’s body in New Jersey landfill after deathbed tip
FBI confirms search for the Teamster boss, who disappeared in July 1975, had begun again after a 2020 death-bed tip from landfill worker
Edward Helmore
20, Nov, 2021 @4:08 PM
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