The Cosa Nostra - or Sicilian Mafia - is suspected of being behind a butchered horse and cows found on a property near Palermo, Sicily.
The grim discovery has shocked the community, which thought it was free from the terror of Mafia violence A businessman found a horse’s severed head when he climbed into the cab of a bulldozer, like a scene from the Mafia movie ‘The Godfather’ It was one of a series of bloody warnings seemingly left by mobsters on a his property in Altofonte, a village in a valley on the outskirts of Palermo.
But it also harks back to an era of protection rackets, trafficking, gambling, bombings and murder from the heyday of the Cosa Nostra. Popularly known as the Sicilian Mafia, it emerged in the 1800s and spread to the USA in the wake of government crackdowns in Italy. Once the dominant force extorting businessmen in agriculture and construction, it has since lost the title of Italy’s most powerful criminal organisation.
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