[Alouette]

I once had an Italian professor tell me that the word MAFIA is an acronym for Morte à Francia, Italia Anela (Death to the French, Italians sigh)

[infowarrior]

I once had an Italian professor tell me that the word MAFIA is an acronym for Morte à Francia, Italia Anela (Death to the French, Italians sigh)

That is true. The acronym and name came about during the Napoleonic Wars, when Bonaparte's troops occupied all of Italy and Sicily. The indigenous thugs of Sicliy led whatever successful resistance to the French occupation, using that acronym, and it stuck ever since...

the infowarrior