Peace, goodwill and mafia murders mark Christmas in Italy
Mob bosses ramp up their activities during the festive season, often with deadly results

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...nd-mafia-murders-mark-christmas-in-italy

A 47-year-old carpenter, Francesco Paolo Lombardino , was killed overnight in the Cep district of Palermo. The victim was shot and wounded in the home, shot in the leg, and died after being transported to hospital.

The ambush took place in via Zumbo. Lombardino's relatives were heard by the Palermo mobile team investigating the case: they told investigators that the victim, around three in the morning, would go down from home to check the car when he was hit by a bullet in the leg.

According to indiscretions, the story provided by the carpenter's relatives would not have convinced the investigators who are listening to other neighbors to seek confirmation of the version of the facts provided.

The Palermo Prosecutor's Office, recently reopened the case relating to the Mattarella murder. This article suggest the neo-fascist terrorists and possible the rulers in Rome were involved.

Almost forty years have passed since the murder of Piersanti Mattarella (the sad anniversary will fall on January 6), the then Christian Democrat president of the Sicily Region, and there are still dark points that could give new directions to the history of Italy. In fact, the investigation has reopened and according to advances there are also potentially new elements on the weapons that were used. With assumptions that are also found in Giovanni Falcone's minutes, in particular that which examines a possible "black runway".

The Anti-Mafia Commission published the full hearing of the judge who at the time investigated the political attacks committed by Cosa Nostra. In 1988, Giovanni Falcone said: "It is an extremely complex investigation because it is a question of understanding whether, and to what extent, the" black runway "is an alternative to the mafia one, or it interpenetrates with the mafia one". An investigation was underway into the two black terrorists Fioravanti and Cavallini who were suspected of murdering the brother of the current President of the Republic.

Just Falcone argued that that possible convergence of interests between black extremism and Cosa Nostra "could mean other welds, and above all the need to redo the history of certain events in our country, even from very distant times". In the court of assizes Fioravanti and Cavallini were acquitted at the request of the same Prosecutor, because the elements collected were judged insufficient, and the verdicts of not guilty were confirmed up to the Cassation.

Now new possible connections are also emerging. The new appraisals carried out by the Palermo Prosecutor's Office, which reopened the case relating to the Mattarella crime, have in fact established that the weapons that killed the Sicilian politician and the judge Mario Amato are of the same type, Colt Cobra caliber 38 Special. For the murder of Amato in Rome a few months later, Gilberto Cavallini was sentenced as a killer. So that track of exchanges between the mafia and the subversive right is now topical. However, it is specified that there are no technical elements to say that it was precisely the same weapon that killed.

Mafia, the boss Farinella is free and returns to San Mauro: walking around the village
January 02 2020

After almost 25 years spent behind bars, Domenico Farinella, known as Mico, son of Don Peppino, the Mafia boss of Madonie who returned to the commission of Cosa Nostra and who ordered the massacre of Capaci , returned to San Mauro Castelverde .

Giuseppe Spallino wrote it in an article in the Newspaper of Sicily on newsstands. Mico Farinella had returned to freedom thanks to an initiative of his defender, the lawyer Valerio Vianello, who had managed to assert an indult, a three-year period deducted from one of the penalties.

Immediately after the release from prison a period in Lombardy. Then the return to his country of origin for the Christmas holidays, the visit to loved ones in the villa of Contrada Borrello Alto and a tour of the country between the disbelief of his former fellow citizens who initially did not even recognize him, since he spent almost half of his 59 years in prison.

21 years have passed since the massacre of San Basilio di Vittoria. On January 2, 1999, inside the bar of the Esso petrol station on the SS 115 Vittoria-Comiso, shortly after sunset, a mafia commando killed 5 people.

The target of the "commando" were Angelo Mirabella, referent of Vittoria's "Stidda" clan, Rosario Nobile, and Claudio Motta, believed to be affiliated with the Dominante clan but to be riddled with gunshots were also two Vittoria football fans , 28 year old Rosario Salerno and 27 year old Salvatore Ottone. Only the bartender who hid behind the counter was saved and was spared by the hit men.

Only in January 2013 was the truth about the massacre reconstructed: it was ordered by the Piscopo and Emmanuello Cosa Nostra clans of Gela, rivals of the "Stidda", who thus intended to extend their dominance also in the province of Ragusa.

In the Basilica of San Giovanni Battista in Vittoria, a mass will be celebrated to remember the innocent victims of that massacre, Salvatore Ottone and Rosario Salerno. The religious function will be officiated by Don Salvatore Cannata.

On this day in 1952 Sicilian hitman Pino Greco was born. Although he only lived until he was 33, Greco is said to have killed at least 80 people and as many a 300. He was killed by 2 mobsters who paid him a visit at home, with orders from Toto Riina.

https://www.nationalcrimesyndicate.com/day-1952-giuseppe-greco-born/

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The President of Italy Sergio Mattarella left the cemetery of Castellammare del Golfo (Trapani) where he paid tribute to his brother Piersanti Mattarella, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the murder which took place on 6 January 1980 in via Libertà in Palermo. With the Head of State, the wife, three children, Bernardo Giorgio, godson of Piersanti Mattarella, Laura and Francesco, were present at the cemetery. In addition to the two children of the former President of the Region assassinated Bernardo and Maria. Mattarella is returning to Palermo where he will participate in the solemn session of the Sicilian Regional Assembly tomorrow to remember his brother killed by Cosa Nostra.

In Sicily, in the south of Italy, the mafia benefits from European subsidies paid to breeders. Criminals seek to appropriate large areas of land in order to recover the funds intended for breeders. In the past ten years, nearly three billion euros have thus ended up in the pockets of the Sicilian mafia Cosa Nostra.

European funds are huge source for income,not just for Sicilian Mafia but for 'Ndrangheta too.

Ex-Juventus Striker Fabrizio Miccoli Handed Jail Sentence Over Mafia Extortion Racket

https://www.sportbible.com/football...nce-over-mafia-extortion-racket-20200110

The investigation "Nebrodi" of the Messina prosecutor led today to the arrest of 94 people and the seizure of 151 companies, current accounts and financial reports. Among the arrested, members of the mafia, entrepreneurs and administrators, including the mayor of Tortorici . All, accused, in various capacities of mafia association, extortion, forgery, fraud. Mafia groups operating on the Nebrodi and with relations with Cosa Nostra of Palermo, with the families of Catania and the province of Enna. The historic Nebrodi clans - the Batanesi clan and the Tortoriciani clan - had got their hands on European contributions thanks also to the connivance of white-collar workers. By 2012 they had obtained millions of euros from the EU, as contributions for agriculture.

Sicilian mafia clans hit in dawn raids over EU farm subsidies fraud
Almost 100 people, including alleged mafiosi, held in one of largest drives against Cosa Nostra

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-launch-dawn-raids-in-eu-subsidies-sting

Catania, anti-mafia blitz: 38 arrests, drugs and extortions, the base in Mascalucia
At the center of the investigation, two characters linked to the Santapaola-Ercolano clan

https://palermo.repubblica.it/crona...torsioni_la_base_a_mascalucia-245726284/

According to the latest report by the DIA, Catania (Santapaola) still plays a central role in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra strategy. An interprovincial summit was held with numerous mafiosi from Catania, Agrigento and Palermo.

Mafia, axis between Mazzei clan in Catania and Trapani gangs: 28 arrests
The disputed crimes are, for various reasons, those of mafia-type association, criminal association, extortion in competition, fictitious registration of assets, use of money, goods or utilities of illicit origin, falsehood committed by the private person in public deed, issue of invoices or other documents for non-existent operations, concealment or destruction of accounting records, with the aggravating circumstance of having acted in order to facilitate the mafia clan "Mazzei" ("carcagnusi") and with the mafia method.“

Meeting in Catania with members of Mazara del Vallo family (Trapani)

Hollander, what does the article mean when it says “carcagnusi?” Thanks

The "Cursoti" and the "Carcagnusi" were criminal gangs in Catania unrelated to Cosa Nostra. However we see them now meeting with members of the Mazara del Vallo family, which is one of the most powerful Cosa Nostra families in Trapani.

Last October Epifanio Agate was arrested, he's the son of Mariano Agate former boss of Mazara del Vallo. He was also a freemason.

https://m.tp24.it/2019/10/14/antima...io-maurizio-lipani-epifanio-agate/140532

Thanks for clarifying!

the boss of mazzei/carcagnusi (santo mazzei) was made a member of cosa nostra in the early '90 by the 'corleonesi' because they were in trouble with santapaola, since then it's a cosa nostra family

Sicily makes medical cannabis free
Medicines to be available to certain groups of patients

(ANSA) - Palermo, January 21 - Sicilian Health Chief Ruggero Razza has signed a decree which states that the regional government will pay for medical-cannabis products for certain types of patients.
These are people affected by chronic pain, by neuropatic pain, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis.

Wow another bust in Catania, that's where all the action is lately. 24 arrests for drug trafficking. There is a name among all that stands out among the 24 suspects of the Cursor investigation taken this morning: it is that of Giuseppe Costa Cardone. "A character of a certain criminal depth,"
The suspect attended the meeting with bosses from all over Sicily which took place in 2016 at the Pigno D'Oro bar.
Some of the most powerful mandamento leaders from Palermo and Agrigento participated in that meeting.

latest dia report 2019

http://direzioneinvestigativaantimafia.interno.gov.it/semestrali/sem/2019/1sem2019.pdf

Are there any good Italian mafia documentaries in English or English subtitles? There was a really good one on the corleonesi that was on YouTube but it was taken down. It had interviews from Brusca and Marchese among others from the Toto Riina reign.

The Assize Court of Palermo sentenced the bosses Vincenzo and Giovan Battista Pipitone, Antonino Di Maggio and Salvatore Cataldo to life imprisonment. They are accused of having played a role in the murders of Giampiero Tocco, Antonino Failla and Giuseppe Mazzamuto, all of whom disappeared with the lupara bianca method between 1999 and 2000, in the areas of Terrasini and Carini.
In another trial, the bosses Salvatore and Sandro Lo Piccolo, father and son, had already been convicted of the crimes.