Sicilian Mafia, also called Cosa Nostra (Italian: Our Thing) or black hand, hierarchically structured organization of criminals in Sicily, Italy. The Sicilian Mafia is made up of a coalition of criminal organizations called “families” or “clans” in English and cosche (singular, cosca) in Italian which engage in extortion, smuggling, gambling, and the mediation of disagreements between other criminals. The term Mafia has become synonymous in English with organized crime, but technically Mafia refers only to the Sicilian organization and its Sicilian American counterpart in the United States. In 1984 former Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta became a government witness and revealed to authorities
Palermo, Italy, May 20 (EFE).- Thirty years after the brutal murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s most high-profile judge, his sister continues to seek justice for his killing. “I continue to hope that other investigations will give us a complete picture of all those who wanted Giovanni dead,” Maria Falcone, who has spent the last three …