A public art campaign in Palermo, Sicily, is reminding residents of the city’s grim Mafia years, and is encouraging them to resist creeping organized crime influence.
By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) - Upcoming mayoral elections in the Sicilian capital of Palermo are being overshadowed by the involvement in the campa.
Rome, May 23 (EFE).- Italy remembered renowned anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone Monday, 30 years after he and his wife were brutally killed. Dozens of Italian cities will observe a minute’s silence at 5:57 PM (3:57 PM GMT), the time when on 23 May 1992 the mafia placed 500 kilos of explosives on the highway that …
By Marta Rullan Palermo, Italy, May 21 (EFE).- Thirty years after Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were murdered on the order of mob boss Salvatore “Toto” Riina (1930-2017), virtually every corner of the Sicilian capital holds reminders of the judges who embodied Italy’s struggle against the Cosa Nostra. While the crusading magistrates could not put …