After landing at Falcone Borsellino airport, named after two anti-Mafia magistrates, my attention is caught by the shimmering Mediterranean. Then, as I make my way into central Palermo on the A29 ...

The theatre is also a symbol of the new Palermo. The anti-Mafia crusading mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, who welcomed refugees to Palermo when Italy was closing her doors, promoted the theatre ...

Anti-mafia maxi blitz: hundreds of arrests The investigation, with over 1,200 carabinieri involved, has revealed the organizational chart of the main families L'intervento dei carabinieri ...

Italy plans to open a multi-site mafia museum recounting “the stories and sacrifice” of the country’s fight against organised crime, organisers say. The first site in Palermo, a former ...

The turning point came 10 years ago, when the city’s anti-Mafia mayor, Leoluca Orlando, was in office. He prioritised cleaning up the city, as well as pushing for UNESCO recognition of Palermo ...

Italian anti-Mafia police have arrested another mobster on the run, just two weeks after the sensational arrest on January 16 of Sicilian Cosa Nostra superboss Matteo Messina Denaro at a health ...

More than 1,200 officers were involved in an operation aimed at "dismantling" the mob in the Palermo. ... In the early 1990s crusading anti-mafia prosecutors were murdered as they tried to hit back.

Extraordinary photographs unveil four decades of Palermo under mafia rule By Theo Farrant & Published on 25/06/2023 - 7:30 GMT+2 • Updated 28/06/2023 - 9:35 GMT+2 ...

Italy’s anti-Mafia investigators agree on four or five possible names: Giovanni Motisi, a 64-year-old Palermo boss nicknamed “u pacchiuni” or the “fat guy” – a former hitman for the ...

Italian mob boss renews wedding vows in same church as anti-mafia ‘hero’ memorial Tommaso Lo Presti and wife held lavish ceremony at Palermo church which is also Giovanni Falcone’s final ...

Italian anti-Mafia police have arrested another mobster on the run, just two weeks after the sensational arrest on January 16 of Sicilian Cosa Nostra superboss Matteo Messina Denaro at a health ...