95 Cosa Nostra members arrested in Italy

A total of 95 suspected members of Cosa Nostra have been arrested today in Palermo, the capital of the Italian island of Sicily, accused of having extorted for years Sicilian businessmen. The operation, which involved Carabinieri, Guardia di Finanza police and managed to dismantle the dome of the clans that controlled Resuttana and San Lorenzo areas and also seized several million euros, police said.

According to Italian media, during investigations even managed to clear up a murder happened over a hundred years ago, the Italian-American cop Joe Petrosino, who died in Palermo in 1909. La Repubblica states that investigators have recordings in which one of the prisoners, Domenico Palazzotto, 29, says that his “grandparents” had perpetrated the crime. ” The uncle of my father’s name was Paolo Palazzotto who perpetrated the murder of the first police officer killed in Palermo,” he said.

About detainees weigh allegations and extortion mafia association. According to research, for years detainees ” subjected to businesses, councilors and business activities of Sicily to a suffocating pressure that conditioned the local economy illegally,” reads the note.

Among those arrested was, according to the media, Girolamo Biondino brother who was a driver of one of the bosses of Cosa Nostra, Totò Riina, and just out of prison. According to investigators, Biondino, who had just turned his sentence for Mafia association, had returned to take over the mafia clan, but had a quiet retired life.

On the crime of 1909 clarified these arrests, the Italian media say one of the tracks performed one of the gangsters confessed that his father ‘s uncle, Paolo Palazzotto, the first policeman killed in Palermo, Joe Petrosino, after serving the order Cascio Ferro.

Paolo Palazzotto and Cascio Ferro was arrested for the murder of Pretosino, police Lt. sent from New York to investigate the links between the American mafia and the Italian and killed twelve days after his arrival in Palermo, but eventually were acquitted for lack of tests.

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