Mafia 'mamma' betrays husband to destroy clan

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Snip from The Times
From Richard Owen in Rome






THE feud began 30 years ago with a horse theft and quarrels over land.

In the way of the Italian Mafia, vengeance was heaped upon revenge, murder upon murder and as rival clans struggled for supremacy it reached the point where organised crime controlled much of the local economy. The clans’ motto was “The greater the number of enemies, the greater the honour”.

But eventually the young partner of one of the bosses decided she could no longer stomach the life of blood-soaked crime and shopped him to the authorities. Two days ago police swooped and arrested her partner and 89 of his associates. The unnamed 25-year-old woman, from Foggia near the remote and beautiful Gargano Peninsula in Apulia, is described by police as small and dark with angular features.

She had four children by a Mafia clan leader at Sannicandro Garganico, a rural Mafia stronghold. She has now been given a new identity in a different part of Italy because of fears that she will be the target of revenge attacks. After approaching the police she went back to her partner, risking discovery while helping police to bug summit meetings of Mafia clan bosses.

More:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1157187,00.html

[DBtv]

1. If only Pickles had the same epiphany.

If she bugged the BFEE summit meetings it would transform the future.

[demnan]

2. Adriana lives!

n/t

[tinanator]

4. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

thanks for spoiling the 5th season for us non-HBO types... :P

[emad]

3. Link to Independent story (non payment site)

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=534898

[hightime]

5. Dead mamma walking.