François Chiappe, the fearsome Corsican capo-mafia who inspired the famous film “The French Connection” in 1971 died in a geriatric home in the Argentine province of Cordoba last February ...

There's no world more brutal than the mafia world, filled with betrayals and cutthroat competition from rival organisations. Although we've been blessed with plenty of iconic mafia movies over the ...

Marco Raduano, the former mafia boss of Vieste (a municipality in ... The former boss was captured almost a year later, on February 1, 2024, in Corsica while he was going to dinner at a restaurant.

Jacques Audiard's 'Emilia Pérez' swept France's 30th Lumiere Awards, the local equivalent to the Golden Globes, with five major wins.

Julien Colonna’s “The Kingdom,” a family crime drama set in Corsica in 1995 ... the 15-year-old daughter of a mafia boss on the run. The best documentary award went to “Dahomey ...

Italian police arrested almost 150 people Tuesday in a major operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which remain in the grip of powerful Cosa Nostra clans. Warrants were issued ...

Italian police have arrested 181 people in a crackdown on the Sicilian mafia. Authorities launched a series of raids early on Tuesday, detaining suspected members of the mafia for alleged crimes ...

Rome (Reuters) — Around 130 people were arrested on Tuesday in a large-scale sting against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, indicating that it has remained a significant criminal force despite ...

Mafia godfathers in Sicily have been caught on wiretaps lamenting the “miserable” calibre of new recruits as nearly 150 alleged criminals were arrested in dawn raids involving 1,200 police ...