Mafia

Europe News

Italian nun arrested for suspected mafia-linked crimes

Prosecutors say Anna Donelli exploited her spiritual role to pass messages between a gang and their associates in prison.

06/12/2024

Art

Artworks seized from the mafia go on display in Milan

Andy Warhol and Salvador Dalí are featured in an exhibition showcasing more than 80 pieces confiscated from criminal groups by Italian authorities.

04/12/2024

Culture news

Europe's best crime museums for mafia, medieval torture and misdeeds

Europe's crime museums delve into the fight against the mafia in Palermo, medieval torture devices in Rothenburg and forensic specimens in Athens.

14/11/2024

Business

Italy's Banca Progetto accused of lending to mafia

A court found that companies linked to the ‘ndrangheta mafia were able to access state-backed loans.

24/10/2024

Italy

Inter and Milan hardcore football fans 'decimated' by mafia arrests

Several top ultras of Milanese football clubs have been detained on the accusation of forming criminal groups aiming to take control of businesses in and around the San Siro stadium.

30/09/2024

Travel News

Mafia-themed souvenirs banned by Sicilian town mayor

The ban comes as Agrigento readies itself to be Italy’s capital of culture next year and aims to shine the spotlight on its cultural riches rather than Mafia heritage.

26/08/2024

Europe News

How Italian MEP is shielded from the Mafia in the European Parliament

After preventing the Sicilian Mafia from getting their hands on agricultural funds, Giuseppe Antoci has been under police protection for nearly a decade. Coming to the European Parliament with bodyguards, he now wants to become the EU's main anti-mafia champion.

25/07/2024

Italy

Death of Italian MEP's husband raises questions of foul play

Italian MEP Francesca Donato claims her husband was killed as authorities investigate the death of Angelo Onorato, found in his car by his wife and daughter on Saturday.

27/05/2024

World News

Thousands march in Rome honoring mafia victims, demanding justice

Hundreds of victim's families took part in the demonstration which is marked annually on the first day of spring, 21 March.

21/03/2024

Italy

Thousands gather to pay tribute to mudered priest Don Peppe Diana

Crowds remembering the late clergyman demanded a future without the Camorra.

20/03/2024

Spain

11 tonnes of Albanian mafia cocaine seized in Spain

This was the largest seizure ever made in Galicia, a region that has long served as a gateway to Europe for cocaine from Latin America and highlights the power of the so-called 'Balkan cartel'.

12/12/2023

Italy

More than 200 convicted in Italy mafia trial

The defendants had been charged with crimes that include drug and arms trafficking, extortion and mafia association, a term in Italy’s penal code for members of organized crime groups. Others were charged with acting in complicity with the ’ndrangheta without actually being a member.

20/11/2023

World News

Verdicts expected in Italian trial involving 'Ndrangheta mafia members

After close to a three-year-long trial, hundreds of accused individuals associated with one of the country's most influential organised criminal groups, the 'Ndrangheta', face sentencing.

20/11/2023

Italy

Italy's number one fugitive: Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro dies

"I could fill a cemetery with the people I've killed myself," the gun enthusiast once said. He committed his first homicide at the age of 18.

25/09/2023

Italy

Italy's 'Last Godfather' too sick to stay in prison, lawyers argue

The Sicilian mafia boss, who was Italy's most wanted man until he was arrested in January, is now too sick to remain in prison, according to his lawyers, who say he should be transferred to a hospital.

08/08/2023

Italy

Brothers of Italy member arrested for 'trying to sell mafia documents'

Police say Giorgio Randazzo reached out to paparazzi king Fabrizio Corona to sell him classified documents about a notorious mafia godfather.

20/07/2023

Culture news

Stunning photographs unveil four decades of Palermo under mafia rule

Five photographers, five ways of seeing the city of Palermo, Sicily.

25/06/2023

Slovakia

Slovak tycoon acquitted again over murder of journalist

Slovak tycoon Marián Kočner has been acquitted for his role in conspiring to murder journalist Ján Kuciak. Alena Zsuzsová, his associate, was found guilty of planning and ordering the crime.

19/05/2023

My Europe Series

More EU countries reclaim land from the mafia. Here's how they use it

Italy was the first to pass a law to allow the reallocation of land for social purposes. Since then, several other countries have followed suit.

18/05/2023

Europe News

Joint European police operation targets Italian mafia

German and Italian police arrest dozens in a massive sweep against Calabrian ’Ndrangheta organised crime syndicate.

03/05/2023