Posted on 10/12/2015 9:54:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A toddler killed in a clan war which prompted Pope Francis to excommunicate all mafia members was being used as a human shield by his grandfather, Italy's top anti-mafia prosecutor said yesterday.
Italian police said two people had carried out the bloody attack, which saw three-year-old “Coco” Campolongo shot in the head alongside his grandfather Giuseppe Iannicelli and his grandfather's Moroccan girlfriend in a mob hit linked to drug-dealing territory.
Drug-dealing Iannicelli had been trying to expand his business in Cosenza — a territory controlled by the powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia — and had begun taking his grandson with him on drug runs in a bid to stave off reprisals.
“He took him with him everywhere, using him as a human shield,” prosecutor Franco Roberti told journalists, as police said the pair accused of murder were already behind bars serving time for extortion.
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“Men of Honor.”
Grew up knowing a bunch of them. They’re animals.
got in my own troubles when I had a vending route and it was good to know some people, but they are brutal.
But I never knew one to get ANY child involved here. Ever.
I’m thankful to the Sicilian mafia for making life so brutal my mother’s mother had to leave with her family and they ended up here.
However, whereas the mafia in the US really is .01 percent of the Italian population, MS13 is said to be ONE percent. That is HUGE. and series.
I was told Mafia never hurts Mothers or Women and children.
Mafia is from the Arabic word for refuge, from when they occupied Sicily and the Sicilians took refuge in the hills.
You mean Hugh and series :)
In fact, I think we're looking for his grave in order to defecate on it.
children no.
mothers and women, yes.
like i said, they’re animals.
and if a kid came between them and prison or death, some would do that too, i think.
i used to work with them in a pizzeria. they’d laugh about kicking old men down stairs
didn’t know that.thanks.
yes, but i’m still too new to use the WHOLE phrase :)
Just visiting the Greek temples in Sicily can cause problems. The parking lots of these amazing structures are controlled by Mafioso youths with bats - pay them protection money or your car is history. We paid.
That’s you rent cars.
Hehe...fair enough:)
hmm..there could be good money in that :) jk
Badfellas.
About 30 years ago I lived in a very quite neighborhood where several members of the Family also lived. A non-Family neighbor down the street would beat his wife and pre-school kid regularly. The Family, after finding out, had a talk with the bully, impressed him with a really good beating and the women and children were never molested again. A member of the Family using a toddler as a shield would be out of character, at least for the “old” Family standards.
About 30 years ago I lived in a very quiet neighborhood where several members of the Family also lived. A non-Family neighbor down the street would beat his wife and pre-school kid regularly. The Family, after finding out, had a talk with the bully, impressed him with a really good beating and the women and children were never molested again. A member of the Family using a toddler as a shield would be out of character, at least for the “old” Family standards.
“Dishonor before death.” Wait, what?
Did you mean "That’sa you rent cars."?
I meant that’s why you rent cars.
But I like yours better.
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