Angela
Giuffrida at the Guardian offers a piece on an FBI and Italian police takedown of
suspected Cosa Nostra organized crime members in Sicily and America.
Italian and US
police have launched a coordinated crackdown on a Sicilian mafia family that was seeking to rebuild its power base after years of exile in the
United States, Italian investigators said on Wednesday.
More than 200
police, including officers from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
arrested 18 people in Sicily as part of their investigation into the Inzerillo
clan in the island’s capital Palermo and the allied New York-based Gambino
family.
A 19th suspect
was arrested in the United States.
Sicily’s
organised crime group, known as Cosa Nostra (Our Thing), has been in a
state of flux since 2017, when its boss of bosses Salvatore “Totò” Riina died in prison, where
he had spent almost a quarter of a century.
Riina launched
a ferocious mafia war on the Mediterranean island in the 1980s, chasing the
Inzerillo family out of their stronghold in the Palermo suburb of Passo di
Rigano and into self-imposed US exile.
But Riina’s
death gave the Inzerillo family a chance to attempt to reclaim its old
territory, with the help of allies in New York, said police.
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