Pope Francis excommunicated the mafia as he clamped down on organised crime groups in Italy from associating themselves with ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 6 - Italy on Monday marked the 45th anniversary of the Cosa Nostra murder of Christian Democrat Sicily Governor Piersanti Mattarella, elder brother of Italian President Sergio ...

Francesco Lastrucci Until recently, Ernesto Bisanti could not have imagined he would face down the Cosa Nostra (Our Thing)—the Sicilian Mafia. In 1986 Bisanti started a furniture factory in Palermo.