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Mafia waste victims in Italy’s ‘Land of Fires’ seek justice
AFP, Published on 30/01/2025
» CASERTA, Italy- After years of feeling “invisible” as she managed her daughter’s cancer, Antonietta Moccia said she hopes a European court on Thursday will recognise the Italian government’s failures to protect her from toxic waste.
Major Italian mafia trial kicks off with hundreds in dock
AFP, Published on 13/01/2021
» LAMEZIA TERME (ITALY) - Italy's largest mafia trial in more than 30 years is set to begin on Wednesday, as prosecutors hope to strike a blow to the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate, whose tentacles reach worldwide.
Italy marks 30th anniversary of murder of anti-mafia judge Falcone
AFP, Published on 18/05/2022
» ROME: Thirty years ago, the Sicilian mafia killed judge Giovanni Falcone with a bomb so powerful it was registered by experts monitoring volcanic tremors from Etna on the other side of the island.
France arrests suspected Italian mafia killer after 16 years on run: Interpol
AFP, Published on 03/02/2023
» SAINT-ÉTIENNE, France: A convicted Italian killer, believed to belong to one of the country's most powerful mafia organisations, was arrested on Thursday in France after 16 years on the run, Interpol said.
Govt draws up list of 'dark' figures
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/10/2023
» A list of "influential figures" -- people described as wielding dark influence across the country -- has been completed for review by a committee today, Deputy Interior Minister Chada Thaiset said yesterday.
Govt supplied guns
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/09/2023
» Re: "Mafia blitz spurs gun amnesty", (BP, Sept 14).
Italy mafias eye virus-weak businesses
AFP, Published on 23/10/2020
» MILAN - Italian entrepreneur Gabriele Menotti Lippolis can still hear the threat ringing in his ears: "Pay up, or we'll slit you from gullet to gizzard."
Shadow looms over captured mobster's home town
AFP, Published on 20/01/2023
» CASTELVETRANO (ITALY) - Killer mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro may have been captured this week after 30 years on the run, but his shadow still looms large over his Sicilian hometown.
Grave injustice: Not even the dead rest easy in Pakistan megacity
AFP, Published on 14/04/2022
» KARACHI - In the teeming metropolis of Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, graveyards are filling up and the dead are running out of space to rest.
Hundreds of mobsters face hard time after Italian 'maxi-trial'
AFP, Published on 13/11/2023
» ROME: Hundreds of alleged members of the 'Ndrangheta -- Italy's most powerful organised crime group -- and their white-collar collaborators face sentencing this week following a historic, nearly three-year trial.