In every historic conflict, from Garibaldi to the US landings, the mafia placed itself on the winning side - it even supported the fascists until Mussolini, too much of a mafioso himself to tolerate it, sent Cesare Mori to the island to do whatever was necessary to destroy it.
Some Albanians worry that the Socialists are a bit too popular in mafia-run places like Vlore.Once in government, the populists may turn pragmatic.
It began as a nonfiction book by the journalist Roberto Saviano, published in 2006, entitled "Gomorra"; one letter less gave more weight to the pun, yoking the Camorra, or Neapolitan Mafia, with a place of Biblical folly.
Di Matteo – who is currently chief magistrate in a major mafia trial taking place in the city – has agreed to significantly reduce his movements around Palermo, and has kitted out his bodyguards with equipment that can block mobile phones being used to remotely detonate bombs.
When as a university student I left my homeland in 1989, Italy was a mafia-ridden, traditionalist place, run by a corruptly efficient political class.
Usually, these cruises are said to be lively enough, but we were on the Hit The Deck Tour, celebrating the start of summer, where the revelry both on and off board was set to be several notches higher; to this end enormous speaker systems, booming out David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia, had been placed on all the boats.
The WHO wants to eliminate the disease all over the world by 2020, and Mafia is a good place to start.
The Maxiprocesso (Maxi-trial) is a famous criminal trial against mafia members that took place in 1986-7 athehe Tribunale di Palermo, thanks to the work of the "anti-mafia pool" made up of a team of prosecutors coordinated by Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
They concluded that through online chat rooms with exotic names such as The Bandits Club, The Cartel and The Mafia, traders colluded to place aggressive "buy" or "sell" orders - known in the business as "banging the close"- in order to distort the fix.
It was owned by the mafia, and was a place for all outcasts, including drag queens, butch lesbians, feminine boys and male prostitutes.
