On May 23rd 1992, Sicilian judge and anti-mafia campaigner Giovanni Falcone was assassinated in broad daylight, a crime that marked a turning point in Sicily's history.
International anti-mafia stings may have increased in recent months, but Italian organized crime groups constitute a social and economic "cancer" that the world seems to underestimate, experts say.
Anti-mafia police said today they had dealt a fresh blow to Italy's Cosa Nostra, arresting seven suspected “rising star” mobsters after two of the organised crime group turned witnesses.
Italy's anti-mafia chief warned Tuesday that the mafia is not just an Italian problem but a "globalizing" phenomenon whose influence is seeping into several European countries.
Salvatore "Toto" Riina, Sicily's most notorious gangster, has "the right to die with dignity," an Italian appeal court said on Monday, opening the door to Riina's eventual release.
Italian police said on Tuesday they had seized control of three companies linked to Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro and arrested 11 suspected associates of the fugitive mobster.
Billboards advertising the baptism of a baby by using the name of Sicily’s notorious mafia, Cosa Nostra, have sparked anger and police intervention on the Italian island.
Four members of the Sicilian mafia were sentenced to between 12 years and life in prison on Wednesday for their role in the notorious 1992 assassination of anti-mob judge Giovanni Falcone.
The Italian mafia is on the march, infiltrating whole new sectors of Italy's economy, a new official report has warned. But while corruption is spreading, old-school mafia violence is becoming less common.
Italian and US officers arrested dozens of people on Tuesday in a joint operation that exposed alleged drug trafficking links between New York's Cosa Nostra Gambino family and the 'Ndrangheta mafia in Italy.
A businessman convicted of laundering money for the Sicilian mafia will be extradited to Italy from Thailand where he was arrested in 2012 after many years on the run, an Italian prosecutor said on Sunday.
Lawyers of Bernardo Provenzano, known as the Godfather of the Sicilian mafia, have told the European Court of Human Rights that he is suffering "inhuman" prison treatment.
Italian police on Wednesday arrested 24 suspected mafia members for alleged involvement in drug trafficking, including a local boss who officially worked as the director of a funeral home.
