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Italian MP could lose her seat for using her birth name on the ballot

'If I had died, how could I have been resurrected?' - Euronews speaks to the Italian MP who lived a life in witness protection afraid of the Mafia finding her, and who is now being challenged by her political rival for resuming her 'dead' identity.

Italy

Police arrest 18 in crackdown on Sicilian Mafia family

Once ruling with absolute power in Sicily, the Cosa Nostra has lost momentum in the past twenty years. Prosecutors have repeatedly warned that the group are attempting to rebuild power.

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Italian, U.S. police make arrests as Mafia clan looks to regroup

Italian, U.S. police make arrests as Mafia clan looks to regroup

Italy

'Cocaine king of Milan' makes midnight escape from prison in Uruguay

Rocco Morabito escaped from a prison in Uruguay where he was waiting to be extradited back to Italy.

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USA

Suspected killer of mob boss was swayed by hate speech, lawyer says

What happened "will be shown to be directly related to the hate that people are bombarded with every day on the internet and elsewhere," the lawyer said.

USA

Killing of Gambino underboss gave the mob something it did not want — attention

Organized crime still has its 'bread and butter' rackets, but there's not as much bread as there used to be.

USA

Mobster killing may have been set-up

Criminal past of slain mobster is "focal point" of police investigation.

Italy

Mafia "super fugitive" arrested in Naples

Mafia "super fugitive" arrested in Naples

Italy

Scores arrested in massive EU crackdown on organised crime network

Members of the 'Ndranghatea Italian mafia group have been arrested in a massive swoop.

Italy

New mafia boss Settimo Mineo arrested in raid

The new 'godfather' of the Sicilian mafia, Settimo Mineo, was arrested on Tuesday along with 45 other suspected mobsters.

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Italian Interior Minister Salvini launches destruction of Mafia villa

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Monday personally launched the demolition of a luxury villa illegally built in Rome by its most infamous and entrenched Mafia clan, the Casamonica.

Italy

Mafia villas in Rome demolished in effort to rout organised crime from city

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is behind a crackdown on "illegal" villas inhabited by members of the Casamonica mafia clan - an organised crime group with Romani roots.

Italy

Sicily seizes one and half billion euros of mafia-linked property

The houses were seized from the heirs of a businessman alleged to have had links to the mafia

Italy

Italian authorities seized more than €1.5 billion of assets linked to fugitive mafia boss

Italian authorities made a landmark bust on assets linked to the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia valued at more than €1.5 billion.

Italy

How Italy's 'Ndrangheta mafia group is infiltrating European countries

Italian anti-mafia prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho told Euronews that the sentencing of more than 100 people this week was proof that 'Ndrangheta’s cells “are able to develop everywhere”.

World News

'Brothers and sisters' of the Mafia, repent, pope says in Sicily

On a trip to Sicily to honour a priest murdered by the mafia the Pope tells followers that if they do not trust a priest they should confront him and tell him why

Italy

Prosecutor explains significance of anti-Mafia trial

Slovakia

Slovak police make arrests in Ján Kuciak murder investigation

Raids in Eastern Slovakia led to seven people being detained, including an Italian businessman allegedly involved with the Calabrian mafia, who has links to at least two officials close to Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Italy

Italian police raid Chinese mafia

A number of dawn raids were carried out across the country

Germany

German and Italian police smash cross-border Mafia ring

200 arrests of suspected N'drangheta members and 50 million euros in assets seized.