Mobsters seized in raid by Claudia Sonea

On Monday the new Sicilian Mafia's boss of bosses Salvatore Lo Piccolo was arrested in a police raid together with his son Sandro and two other Mafia bosses. He was tracked for almost a quarter of century and at the age of 65 he was finally caught on a country house outside the Sicilian capital Palermo where they were holding a summit. There was a fire exchange in the raid, but no injuries were registered. Interior Minister Giuliano Amato stated that the Italian state showed they can repeatedly dismantle the leadership of the Mafia and hopes that it will lead to the destruction of the organization. They arrested last year Provenzano, the former capo di tutti capi, and now besides the one that replaced him, Lo Piccolo, another three that are among the top 30 most wanted Mafia suspects in Italy. The criminal background of Salvatore reveals that his career as a villain working as a bodyguard for a Sicilian mobster and climbed on the Mafia ladder until he managed to took over the place of Provenzano after his arrest that was followed by killings for 18 months caused by the struggle for the leadership, according to magistrates. That is why allegedly Lo Piccolo fought Matteo Messina Denaro, another contender to the desired position. The raid took place on the day Sicilians pay tribute each year to the victims of the Mafia, mostly magistrates such as Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, who were killed by bombs in 1992. Romano Prodi, the Italian Prime Minister, saluted the action as a great success for everyone. Anti-Mafia magistrate Francesco Messineo told the Italian news agency Ansa the joy is due to the fact that the mobsters were not low time criminals, but big shot chief colluding. The street are safer, people can now sleep better. The crimes for power are over, but Mafia lives on.

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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