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THE LEGENDARY Mafia superboss known as "The Tractor" ran out of gas yesterday as Italian cops capped a four-decade manhunt with an anti-climactic raid on his Sicilian hideout. Bernardo Provenzano ...
Bernardo Provenzano, the capo di capi of the Sicilian Mafia who had been sought by the authorities for more than 40 years, was caught yesterday morning in a farmhouse outside Corleone, his home ...
The group's rent-free headquarters are in an imposing condominium seized by the state from a local Mafia capo. Both the Sicilian provincial government and the European Union have provided grants.
Italian police in the southern region of Sicily recently discovered a cache of drugs plastered with the faces of well-known Costa Nostra leaders. Carabinieri police said Tuesday that authorities ...
In Sicily, Defying the Mafia ... Riina, the Cosa Nostra’s capo di tutti i capi, or boss of all bosses, from Corleone, who had masterminded the assassinations, ...
While the show and characters themselves are not directly based on true stories, Tulsa King was inspired by Sicily's bloody and violent mafia history, specifically the real-life Inzerillo crime ...
Two minutes off the airport bus and I realise that today’s Palermo, capital city of Sicily, is on another planet from the deathly, Mafia-ridden Palermo I visited as a student more than 40 years ago.
Fugitive's arrest like a 'quake,' but Mafia very resilient “What will happen in detail, we can't know,” Palermo Prosecutor General Lia Sava, said on Rai state radio about the future of the Mafia.