One in five homicides in Italy mafia killings | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Mafia killings accounted for one in five of all homicides in Italy in 2008, according to a recent study, a national news agency reported.
Ansa said a study by the Eurispes socioeconomic think-tank showed that of 106 mafia-related deaths that year, over half were at the hands of the violent Camorra crime syndicate in the Campania area around Naples.
‘Around 29% of the killings were connected to the increasingly powerful ‘Ndrangheta in Calabria, which is now considered the most insidious of Italy’s mafias,’ the agency said.
‘Some 24% of mob hits were attributed to the Cosa Nostra in Sicily while 20% were linked to the Sacra Corona Unita (United Sacred Crown) in Puglia.'”