la Cosa Nostra - the Sicilian Mafia

The legendary Mafia. What is it?

Everybody has seen The Godfather films by Francis Ford Coppola. The Godfather part I, The Godfather part II and the Godfather part III, which made Sicily more famous than ever. The first connection in people's mind when talking about Sicily nowadays is mafia, sad but true. The local people isn't happy about it because to them it's not just fascinating films from the past but the reality from their everyday life. Talking about Mafia is still tabu in Sicily.

The famous mafioso quote:

"Non Vedo, non sento, non parlo"

literally: "don't see, don't hear, don't speak" ("see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil")

We want to collect information here about true Mafia, la Cosa Nostra, which isn't dead, not even sleeping.

addiopizzo.org Campaign against pizzo (extortion) started in 2004

This is the last interview of Paolo Borsellino the famous Italian anti-mafia magistrate before he got killed by mafia.

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