International Organised Crime
Gioacchino Gammino was a member of the Stidda, an organized crime group that originated in Sicily. According to the testimony of various Cosa Nostra pentiti, the Stidda was formed after the Second Mafia War in the early 1980s by a number of former members of Cosa Nostra. Some of the “stiddari” (the name used to … Read more
Mauro De Mauro, an investigative journalist, was 49 years old when he disappeared from Palermo on 16 September 1970.
Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated by a car bomb on the 17th October 2017. Repubblika and Occupy Justice, two non-profit organisations pressuring the government to ensure her killers are all brought to justice, organized a vigil in memory of the journalist on the fourth anniversary of her death.
The prison sentence for the 70-year-old boss Leo Sutera, believed to be the head of the Sambuca mafia clan and very loyal to the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, was reduced on appeal from 18 years to 14 years and 6 months. The Palermo court of appeal also confirmed the prison sentences of three mafia collaborators … Read more
19th July the Italian National Magistrates Association organized a meeting at the Valley of the Temples in Sicily, to honour the memory of Paolo Borsellino, who was killed by a car bomb in Via D’Amelio, near his mother’s house in Palermo on the 19th of July 1992.