Like Galati’s wounded warden, the safest option available to people under pressure from the mafia was to establish a relationship with their leaders – and get the most out of these connections.

Fanara, from Sicily's notorious Cosa Nostra clan, was nine years into his sentence under Italy's tough “41-bis” prison regime usually applied to mafia members. A Sicilian mafia boss serving a ...

A severed horse’s head was found on the property of a Sicilian businessman, an act that local authorities are attributing to a mafia intimidation practice. The animal’s bloody head was left on ...

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1 fugitive, Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted Mafia boss who ordered some of the nation’s most heinous killings, was arrested Monday at a private clinic in Sicily after three decades on the run ...

According to its producer, it is "a conflict game set against the backdrop of a mafia feud in Sicily." The key concept behind the game is that players, who stand in for different mafia families ...

What captured Battaglia’s eye in those years was Cosa Nostra (the Sicilian mafia. This was the golden age of Cosa Nostra, when the criminal organisation was conquering space in the global heroin trade ...

One hundred years ago, on January 19, 1925, Rocco Chinnici was born in the province of Palermo. Fifteen years later, ...