When Italian anti-mafia police surprised the Sicilian mob on 11 February 2025 their main aim was to stop them regrouping and creating a new governing body or cupola. But what has emerged from their wide-ranging investigation is an organized crime group having to adapt to modern realities and displaying a nostalgia for the loftier ambitions of the past. They don't produce mobsters like they used to, Giancarlo Romano told an associate in a wiretapped conversation before he was shot dead a year ago
When Italian anti-mafia police surprised the Sicilian mob on 11 February 2025 their main aim was to stop them regrouping and creating a new governing body or cupola. But what has emerged from their wide-ranging investigation is an organized crime group having to adapt to modern realities and displaying a nostalgia for the loftier ambitions of the past. They don't produce mobsters like they used to, Giancarlo Romano told an associate in a wiretapped conversation before he was shot dead a year ago
