by BBC - May 18, 2009
An alleged leader of the powerful Neapolitan-based mafia, the Camorra, has been arrested in southern Spain, Italian prosecutors have said.
Raffaele Amato was detained in a joint operation by Italian and Spanish police in the city of Marbella on Saturday.
Mr Amato is accused of eight murders between 1991 and 1993, [...]
by The Guardian, April 22 2009
Mexican drug traffickers are funneling cocaine to Italian organised crime, and some shipments are moving through Dallas.
“We’ve got some of the major cartel members established here dealing their wares in Europe,” said James Capra, head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s Dallas office.
Experts say warring cartels battered by unprecedented US [...]
On March 18 the anti-racism campaign “Don’t be afraid, open up to rights and to the others” (Non aver paura, apriti agli altri, apriti ai diritii) begins in Rome, Italy, with a press conference held in the Italian capital city.
The campaign involves 26 organizations - among which the UNHCR, secular and religious associations, international NGOs [...]
The Treno della Memoria (Train of Memory) is one of Terra del Fuoco’s largest projects. At the 5th edition this year, from January 20 until February 15 four trains take nearly 3000 high school students from all over Italy to Krakow, Poland. The visit to the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau represents the highest moment of [...]
by Stephen Brown for Reuters News Agency - November 12, 2008
ROME–Italian shopkeepers pay about $380 million a day to mafia protection rackets and loan sharks and fear the current downturn could allow organized crime to further tighten its stranglehold on the vulnerable economy.
The warning came yesterday from the Italian shopkeepers’ association Confesercenti, many of whose [...]
Guardia di Finanza has dismantled two Romanian groups of smugglers in Turin. The outcome of the operation says 14 are in custody and 3 house arrests, whereas 128 have been denounced as wanted. Eleven tons of cigarettes from Russia, Moldova and Romania have been sealed. In this case, the fine applicable is of 5 euro [...]
After some delays, due to the necessity to obtain all the due permissions and then to start in full compliance, the restructuring and redecoration work has begun at “Il Dado” in Settimo Torinese: the first step of the path of AUTORECUPERO and social integration involving a dozen of Roma families, along with our operators. After [...]
Starting this month, our way toward the Train of Memory will be accompanied by some theatrical performances, that will guide us through the winter, telling Story and stories of deportation and resistance.
The first appointment is on November 26th, in Ciriè, with the pièce The man without sleep, written and directed by Marco Perazzolo, and represented [...]
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