In November 1993, 11-year-old Giuseppe Di Matteo was abducted by the Sicilian Mafia in order to silence his father, a gangster who had become a "pentito", or turncoat. Acting on the orders of Mafia ...

The films of director Franco Maresco (“Belluscone: A Sicilian Story”) are an acquired taste, rarely developed by non-Italian palates, and “The Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be” is a prime example.

Muckraking helmer-performer Sabina Guzzanti fearlessly shines a light on Italy’s fetid body politic. Only the deliberately ignorant remain in the dark about ties between the government and the Mafia: ...

To most foreigners the mafia is synonymous with Sicily's Cosa Nostra, but Italian investigative journalist Roberto Saviano lifted the lid on its Neapolitan counterpart, the Camorra. His 2006 book ...

Toto Riina, the jailed “boss of bosses” of the Sicilian mafia, has claimed for the first time that he met seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti Salvatore 'Toto' Riina, boss of bosses, or ...

(MENAFN- AzerNews) The owner of the only cinema in Castelvetrano, the Sicilian hometown of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, has refused to screen a film based on his life, ...