The Mafia are often glamorised in popular culture, but this guided walk shows the grim reality - and how brave Sicilians ...

When anti-mafia police swooped on the Sicilian mob on Tuesday, their main aim was to stop them regrouping and creating a new governing body or cupola. But what has emerged from their wide-ranging ...

He starts by telling us his story. Antoci grew up in Sicily during the “Years of Lead”: when political and criminal violence wracked the country and the island’s homegrown mafia, the Cosa Nostra, ...

A powerful wind laden with memories and justice swept through Trapani yesterday, as fifty thousand people marched in ...

The Sicilian mafia is arguably one of the most famous – or infamous – institutions in the Western world. After its first appearance in Sicily in the 1870s it soon infiltrated the economic and ...

Dutch police thought he was the head of the Sicilian mafia who has been on the run for decades. Dutch police thought he was head of the Sicilian mafia who has been on the run for nearly 30 years.

It also explains, oddly perhaps, the rise of the Sicilian Mafia without once even mentioning the word ‘Mafia’. Il Gattopardo ...

When anti-mafia police swooped on the Sicilian mob on Tuesday, their main aim was to stop them regrouping and creating a new governing body or cupola. But what has emerged from their wide-ranging ...