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Gunfire punctuates changing times in Sicily today as a historically immovable object, the Mafia, meets an increasingly irresistible force, the Italian state.
Feb. 16, 1988
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Leonardo Sciascia, 68, a Sicilian novelist who wrote of the Mafia, official corruption and Italy’s political class.
Nov. 23, 1989
The Sicilian Mafia, far from beaten by mass arrests, is diversifying its drug operations and reverting to lucrative extortion and kidnaping, Italian officials say.
June 12, 1988
Two gunmen shot and killed a prominent member of a branch of the Sicilian Mafia operating in Turin today in what police said was a Mafia vendetta.
July 16, 1987
Only months after its biggest success, Italy’s campaign against the Mafia is a shambles.
Aug. 4, 1988
Declaring that Sicily stands at the verge of breaking the Mafia’s centuries-old grip, FBI Director Louis J.
Dec. 13, 1993
The Mafia dumped a lamb with its throat slit on the doorstep of a prison chaplain Saturday in a macabre, sneering challenge to visiting Pope John Paul II and the moral authority of the Roman Catholic Church in mob-racked Sicily.
Nov. 6, 1994
Suspected Mafia gunmen ambushed a senior Sicilian judge as he returned home to Palermo from a country weekend with his handicapped son, killing them both in a burst of automatic weapons fire, Italian police said Monday.
Sept. 27, 1988
Matteo Messina Denaro, the mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, has died in an Italian hospital months after his capture.
Sept. 25, 2023
FBI Director Louis J.
Dec. 11, 1993