HeyJaredThe Chemist of Catania
I am a Catholic priest and I write about Sicily and the Mafia. I spent eight years in Italy, I have travelled the peninsula, and have long been fascinated by crime.
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Death Comes with a Price Tag in Sicily (opens the original)
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Is Palermo Safe? (opens the original)
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Palermo Police Strike Back! (opens the original)
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When the mob of one hundred people attacked the police in Falsomiele for trying to do their job, they perhaps thought they had won a victory of sorts. But the police have struck back with a second raid around the area of Penguins Square, subjecting the place to a police cordon, sending in 200 police officers, backed up by helicopters and dogs. Clearly the police want to show the taxpayer that they are doing their job; and it is also possible that they were really cheesed off by the mob attack as
Middlesbrough is not Palermo (opens the original)
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Police under Attack in Sicily, Again (opens the original)
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