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The Last Boss: Messina Denaro’s Death Marks The End Of An Era For The Sicilian Mafia

photo of Matteo Messina Denaro
Matteo Messina Denaro after his arrest Carabinieri handout via ZUMA

Eight months after being arrested, following 30 years on the run, Matteo Messina Denaro died Monday. The son of a mobster and successor of Sicily’s notorious boss of bosses, he had tried to transform Cosa Nostra into a modern criminal enterprise — with only partial success.

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Apartheid In Italy? A Sicilian City’s Proposal For Immigrant-Only Buses

Like elsewhere in Europe, Italy has seen a steady rise in immigrants over the past two decades.
Like elsewhere in Europe, Italy has seen a steady rise in immigrants over the past two decades. e://Dantes

TRAPANI – After Pretoria until 1993, and Alabama through the early 1960’s, the Italian city of Trapani has discovered Apartheid in 2013. The cold bureaucratic language of Trapani City Council member Andrea Vassalo leaves little room for doubts: the head of the council’s urban territory commission cited the “frequent complaints of the indigenous” (using exactly […]

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