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  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, pulls the fishing net on her boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, pulls the fishing net on her boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, pulls the fishing net on her boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • POZZUOLI, ITALY - 8 OCTOBER 2016: Cristina Pinto (47), also known as "Nikita", a former Camorra killer turned into a fisherwoman, poses for a portrait by her fishing boat in the port of Pozzuoli, a city of the Metropolitan area of Naples, Italy, on October 8th 2016.<br />
<br />
Cristina Pinto started her criminal career at 16 with armed robberies. By the time she turned 20 years old, she became the bodyguard of Camorra boss Mario Perrella as well as the first woman to become a killer for the criminal organization. When she was arrested in 1992, at the age of 22 years old, she was charged and sentenced for at least three homicides and for criminal conspiracy. She spent the following 22 years in prison. When released, she became a fisherwoman. She now fishes with her partner Raffaele.
    CIPG_20161008_GLOBE-AND-MAIL_Camorra...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_573...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_570...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_573...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_573...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_572...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_570...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_569...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_569...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_568...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_567...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_566...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_565...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_565...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_564...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_562...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_561...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_561...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_559...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_558...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_572...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_564...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_563...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_563...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Roberto Di Bella, the President of the Court for Minors of Reggio Calabria who started a program limiting or suspending parental responsability for incriminated families of the ‘Ndrangheta (the organized crime centered in the Souther Italian region of Calabria), poses for a portrait in his office in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.<br />
<br />
After years of work with Mr. Di Bella and other prosecutors, the Justice Ministry is now ready to standardize the procedure. Once local authorities sign the protocol, it'll become effective.<br />
<br />
“Sons follow their fathers,” he said. “But the state can’t allow that children are educated to be criminals.”<br />
<br />
In his project, Mr. Di Bella hoped to see the “future of the fight against mafias,” he said.<br />
<br />
But he admitted that the project is now based on his judges’ work and on volunteers who lend their professional skills almost for free.<br />
<br />
“We need specialists,” he said referring psychologists, host families and specialized judges. “We need norms, fund
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_558...jpg
  • REGGIO CALABRIA, ITALY - 15 NOVEMBER 2016: Enrico Interdonato, a 32-year old volunteer psychologist and founding member of the anti-racket association Addio Pizzo in Messina, the Sicilian town across the strait from Reggio Calabria, poses for a portrait in Reggio Calabria, Italy, on November 15th 2016.<br />
<br />
In 2013, after a decade-long work with street boys, Mr. Interdonato started tutoring a 15-year old boy who came from an ‘Ndrangheta family. They spent time together in the disco and with other young men and women in the city, and later also with associations and mafia victims’ families, elaborating together the real impact of reckless criminal actions.<br />
<br />
We are a bit like David against Golia,” he said referring to the two judges on juvenile cases in the city with the highest criminal concentration in Italy.<br />
“But the ’Ndrangheta infiltrates our community and we try to infiltrate them culturally, making their children free to choose,” he said.<br />
<br />
Since 2012, judges from Reggio Calabria court for minors have started a program limiting or suspending parental responsibility for incriminated families, moving children to a different Italian region and trying to create the conditions for an ordinary childhood there. Once they turn 18, they can choose whether to go back to Calabria or not.<br />
<br />
When evidence shows that children are physically or psychologically endangered by their families’ Mafioso behavior, judges apply the same legislation used in Italy against abusive parents to parents from the ‘Ndrangheta.<br />
<br />
So far, the program has involved more than 40 minors, boys and girls aged 12 to 16, and out of those who have already returned to their lives, none has committed a crime.<br />
<br />
Calabria has a very high criminal concentration. Since the early 1990s, Reggio Calabria juvenile court sentenced about 100 minors for mafia association and 50 for murder—or attempted murder.
    CIPG_20161115_NYT-Ndrangheta_5M3_568...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Branco", a series of sculptures by Velasco Vitali is seen here in the church of San Domenico as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “In short, we are
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-01...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "L'Albero dei tutti", a sculpture by Gregor Prugger is seen here in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo, as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “I
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_Mini2P...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "L'Albero dei tutti", a sculpture by Gregor Prugger is seen here in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo, as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “I
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_Mini2P...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "L'Albero dei tutti", a sculpture by Gregor Prugger is seen here in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo, as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “I
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_Mini2P...jpg
  • CAPACI, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022:  The bulding from which mobsters detonated the bomb that killed anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and his escort agents is seen here in Capaci, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “In short, we are taking back control of our Palermo,”<br />
she added.
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_Mavic2...jpg
  • CAPACI, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022:  The spot on the highway where a bomb placed by mobsters killed anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and his escort agents is seen here in Capaci, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “In short, we are taking back control of our Palermo,”<br />
she added.
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_Mavic2...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: A detail of "L'Albero dei tutti", a sculpture by Gregor Prugger is seen here in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo, as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, sh
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-05...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: A detail of "L'Albero dei tutti", a sculpture by Gregor Prugger is seen here in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo, as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, sh
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-05...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "L'Albero dei tutti", a sculpture by Gregor Prugger is seen here in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo, as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “I
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-05...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "L'Albero dei tutti", a sculpture by Gregor Prugger is seen here in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo, as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “I
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-05...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "L'Albero dei tutti", a sculpture by Gregor Prugger is seen here in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo, as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “I
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-05...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Il Trionfo della Memoria", a sculpture by Peter Demetz is seen here in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. �
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-04...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Il Trionfo della Memoria", a sculpture by Peter Demetz is seen here in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. �
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-04...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Elisa", an artwork by Arcangelo Sassolino is seen here at the Quattro Canti square as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “In short, we are taking ba
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-03...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Elisa", an artwork by Arcangelo Sassolino is seen here at the Quattro Canti square as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “In short, we are taking ba
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-03...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Elisa", an artwork by Arcangelo Sassolino is seen here at the Quattro Canti square as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “In short, we are taking ba
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-01...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Branco", a series of sculptures by Velasco Vitali is seen here in the church of San Domenico as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “In short, we are
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-01...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Branco", a series of sculptures by Velasco Vitali is seen here in the church of San Domenico as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “In short, we are
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-01...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: The tomb of anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone is seen here in the church of San Domenico in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “In short, we are taking back control of our Palermo,”<br />
she added.
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-00...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "L'Albero dei tutti", a sculpture by Gregor Prugger is seen here in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo, as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “I
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-05...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Il Trionfo della Memoria", a sculpture by Peter Demetz is seen here in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. �
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-04...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Elisa", an artwork by Arcangelo Sassolino is seen here at the Quattro Canti square as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “In short, we are taking ba
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-01...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Branco", a series of sculptures by Velasco Vitali is seen here in the church of San Domenico as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to<br />
everybody, not just the mafiosi, she said. “In short, we are
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-00...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Branco", a series of sculptures by Velasco Vitali is seen here in front of the tomb of anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone in the church of San Domenico as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-00...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 MAY 2022: "Branco", a series of sculptures by Velasco Vitali is seen here in front of the tomb of anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone in the church of San Domenico as part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a public art program designed to build trust in institutions and ensure mobsters never gain a foothold in the city again in Palermo, Italy, on May 24th 2022.<br />
<br />
<br />
Until recently, Palermo was infamous as the Mafia capital of the world. A turning point in the establishment of law and order was the murder of Giovanni Falcone, Italy’s a famous judge who pioneered new methods to combat the Mafia and paved the way to the organization’s demise. The Mafia had its revenge in 1992, detonating a powerful bomb under a road near Capaci in Palermo’s hinterland. The explosion killed Falcone, his wife and three escorts.<br />
<br />
To mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy on Monday, Palermo unveiled seven art<br />
installations reminding people of the city’s dark Mafia years, and encouraging local residents to<br />
resist creeping mafia influence. Part of the Spazi Capaci (Capaci Spaces), a three-year public art<br />
series taking place mainly in the Sicilian capital, the works were inaugurated as dignitaries<br />
including Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, arrived in Palermo for a commemoration<br />
ceremony remembering Falcone. The project has been organized by the Fondazione Falcone, an anti-Mafia organization in Palermo, with funding provided by the Education Ministry and private donors. “We have always<br />
known that culture is one of the best weapons against the Mafia,” said Maria Falcone, the sister<br />
of the murdered judge and President of the Fondazione Falcone. “Repression alone is not<br />
enough to beat the Mafia,” she added. “You also need social and cultural work for that.”<br />
Capaci Spaces aims to inspire residents to take pride in their city by making Palermo more<br />
beautiful, Falcone said. Displaying art in public places could also show that the city belongs to
    CIPG_20220524_NYT-Palermo-Art_A74-00...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (L-R) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, walk back to their car in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 11 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore (center)- a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here by the Cathedral of Monreale as a nun passes by, in Monreale, Italy, on June 11th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
<br />
His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210611_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: The plaster cast of David Olère's visual testimony of the removal of corpses from the gas chamber, showing the gastight door with the metal protection over the peephole, is seen here in The Evidence Room at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
<br />
The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
<br />
The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
    CIPG_20160604_NYT-Evidence_M3_0149.jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: The full-scale plaster model of a gas hatch used in Auschwitz, is seen here in the Evidence Room exhibition at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
<br />
The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
<br />
The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
    CIPG_20160604_NYT-Evidence_M3_0094.jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: Plaster cast of a Zyklon B can is seen here in The Evidence Room at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
<br />
The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
<br />
The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
    CIPG_20160604_NYT-Evidence_M3_0063.jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: The Evidence Room with plaster forensic details, including full-scale models of (L-R) a gas column, a gas hatch and a gastight door used in Auschwitz, is seen here at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
<br />
The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
<br />
The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
    CIPG_20160604_NYT-Evidence_M3_0039.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 FEBRUARY 2013: Leader of Civil Revolution and candidate for Prime Minister Antonio Ingroia (53) votes in a elementary school in Palermo, Italy, on February 24, 2013.<br />
<br />
Antonio Ingroia, leader of Civil Revolution with mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris, started his career as a magistrate in the Antimafia pool of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino who were killed in 1992 by the Mafia. After investigating on the secret talks between the Italian state and the Mafia in the early 1990s aimed at bringing a campaign of murder and bombing to an end, Antonio Ingroia became chief of investigations of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). <br />
<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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PALERMO, ITALIA - 24 FEBBRAIO 2013: Antonio Ingroia (53 anni), leader di Rivoluzione Civile e candidato alla Presidenza del Consiglio,vota in una scuola elementare a Palermo il 24 febbraio 2013.<br />
<br />
Antonio Ingroia, leader di Rivoluzione Civile insieme al sindaco di Napoli Luigi de Magistris, ha iniziato la sua carriera da magistrato nel pool antimafia di Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino, uccisi dalla mafia nel 1992. Dopo aver indagato sulla trattativa Mafia-Stato (un accordo che avrebbe previsto la fine della stagione stravista in cambio di un'attenuazione delle misure detentive previste dall'articolo 41bis), Antonio Ingroia è stato chiamato a dirigere l'unità di investigazione per la la lotta al narcotraffico in Guatemala per l'ONU.<br />
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Le elezioni politiche italiane del 2013 per il rinnovo dei due rami del P
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 24 FEBRUARY 2013: Leader of Civil Revolution and candidate for Prime Minister Antonio Ingroia (53) votes in a elementary school in Palermo, Italy, on February 24, 2013.<br />
<br />
Antonio Ingroia, leader of Civil Revolution with mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris, started his career as a magistrate in the Antimafia pool of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino who were killed in 1992 by the Mafia. After investigating on the secret talks between the Italian state and the Mafia in the early 1990s aimed at bringing a campaign of murder and bombing to an end, Antonio Ingroia became chief of investigations of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). <br />
<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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PALERMO, ITALIA - 24 FEBBRAIO 2013: Antonio Ingroia (53 anni), leader di Rivoluzione Civile e candidato alla Presidenza del Consiglio,vota in una scuola elementare a Palermo il 24 febbraio 2013.<br />
<br />
Antonio Ingroia, leader di Rivoluzione Civile insieme al sindaco di Napoli Luigi de Magistris, ha iniziato la sua carriera da magistrato nel pool antimafia di Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino, uccisi dalla mafia nel 1992. Dopo aver indagato sulla trattativa Mafia-Stato (un accordo che avrebbe previsto la fine della stagione stravista in cambio di un'attenuazione delle misure detentive previste dall'articolo 41bis), Antonio Ingroia è stato chiamato a dirigere l'unità di investigazione per la la lotta al narcotraffico in Guatemala per l'ONU.<br />
<br />
Le elezioni politiche italiane del 2013 per il rinnovo dei due rami del P
    CIPG_20130224_ELE2013_INGROIA_VOTO_P...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 5 FEBRUARY 2013: Leader of Civil Revolution and candidate for Prime Minister Antonio Ingroia (53) leads a press conference on research and business growth in Rome, Italy, on February 5, 2013.<br />
<br />
Antonio Ingroia, leader of Civil Revolution with mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris, started his career as a magistrate in the Antimafia pool of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino who were killed in 1992 by the Mafia. After investigating on the secret talks between the Italian state and the Mafia in the early 1990s aimed at bringing a campaign of murder and bombing to an end, Antonio Ingroia became chief of investigations of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). <br />
<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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ROMA, ITALIA - 5 FEBBRAIO 2013: Antonio Ingroia (53 anni), leader di Rivoluzione Civile e candidato alla Presidenza del Consiglio, tiene una conferenza stampa sulla ricerca e il rilancio delle imprese nel suo comitato elettorale a Roma il 5 febbraio 2013.<br />
<br />
Antonio Ingroia, leader di Rivoluzione Civile insieme al sindaco di Napoli Luigi de Magistris, ha iniziato la sua carriera da magistrato nel pool antimafia di Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino, uccisi dalla mafia nel 1992. Dopo aver indagato sulla trattativa Mafia-Stato (un accordo che avrebbe previsto la fine della stagione stravista in cambio di un'attenuazione delle misure detentive previste dall'articolo 41bis), Antonio Ingroia è stato chiamato a dirigere l'unità di investigazione per la la lotta al narcotraffico in Guatemala per
    CIPG_20130205_ELE2013_INGROIA_Roma__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 5 FEBRUARY 2013: Leader of Civil Revolution and candidate for Prime Minister Antonio Ingroia (53) leads a press conference on research and business growth in Rome, Italy, on February 5, 2013.<br />
<br />
Antonio Ingroia, leader of Civil Revolution with mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris, started his career as a magistrate in the Antimafia pool of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino who were killed in 1992 by the Mafia. After investigating on the secret talks between the Italian state and the Mafia in the early 1990s aimed at bringing a campaign of murder and bombing to an end, Antonio Ingroia became chief of investigations of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). <br />
<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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ROMA, ITALIA - 5 FEBBRAIO 2013: Antonio Ingroia (53 anni), leader di Rivoluzione Civile e candidato alla Presidenza del Consiglio, tiene una conferenza stampa sulla ricerca e il rilancio delle imprese nel suo comitato elettorale a Roma il 5 febbraio 2013.<br />
<br />
Antonio Ingroia, leader di Rivoluzione Civile insieme al sindaco di Napoli Luigi de Magistris, ha iniziato la sua carriera da magistrato nel pool antimafia di Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino, uccisi dalla mafia nel 1992. Dopo aver indagato sulla trattativa Mafia-Stato (un accordo che avrebbe previsto la fine della stagione stravista in cambio di un'attenuazione delle misure detentive previste dall'articolo 41bis), Antonio Ingroia è stato chiamato a dirigere l'unità di investigazione per la la lotta al narcotraffico in Guatemala per
    CIPG_20130205_ELE2013_INGROIA_Roma__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 5 FEBRUARY 2013: Leader of Civil Revolution and candidate for Prime Minister Antonio Ingroia (53) leads a press conference on research and business growth in Rome, Italy, on February 5, 2013.<br />
<br />
Antonio Ingroia, leader of Civil Revolution with mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris, started his career as a magistrate in the Antimafia pool of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino who were killed in 1992 by the Mafia. After investigating on the secret talks between the Italian state and the Mafia in the early 1990s aimed at bringing a campaign of murder and bombing to an end, Antonio Ingroia became chief of investigations of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). <br />
<br />
A general election to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate, the two houses of the Italian parliament, will take place on 24–25 February 2013. The main candidates running for Prime Minister are Pierluigi Bersani (leader of the centre-left coalition "Italy. Common Good"), former PM Mario Monti (leader of the centrist coalition "With Monti for Italy") and former PM Silvio Berlusconi (leader of the centre-right coalition).<br />
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ROMA, ITALIA - 5 FEBBRAIO 2013: Antonio Ingroia (53 anni), leader di Rivoluzione Civile e candidato alla Presidenza del Consiglio, tiene una conferenza stampa sulla ricerca e il rilancio delle imprese nel suo comitato elettorale a Roma il 5 febbraio 2013.<br />
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Antonio Ingroia, leader di Rivoluzione Civile insieme al sindaco di Napoli Luigi de Magistris, ha iniziato la sua carriera da magistrato nel pool antimafia di Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino, uccisi dalla mafia nel 1992. Dopo aver indagato sulla trattativa Mafia-Stato (un accordo che avrebbe previsto la fine della stagione stravista in cambio di un'attenuazione delle misure detentive previste dall'articolo 41bis), Antonio Ingroia è stato chiamato a dirigere l'unità di investigazione per la la lotta al narcotraffico in Guatemala per
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  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (R-L) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, her in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
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  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (R-L) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, her in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (R-L) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, her in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: (R-L) Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore. a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - is seen here with his partner Michele Nicolosi (59), an Italian post office employee, her in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
<br />
Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
  • MONREALE, ITALY - 12 JUNE 2021: Francesco Lepore - a 45-year-old journalist and gay activist, formerly known as Father Lepore, a Catholic priest and Vatican Latinist - poses for a portrait in the Benedictine Cloister in Monreale, Italy, on June 12th 2021.<br />
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Mr. Lepore’s Latin column has included recent columns about “Ioannes Biden” considering “Vladimirum Putin” a “pro homicida habet” and another, about the legalization of bitcoin -- or “bito nummario” -- in El Salvador, was retweeted by that country’s president. He is the editor of GayNews.it and later this month will publish “The Crime if Giarre,” an investigation into the decades-old murder of two Sicilian gay men which helped spark Italy’s gay rights movement.<br />
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His years in the corridors of power within the Roman Curia that governs the church ended badly when officials forced him out because of his sexuality, a development he found ironic given, he said, that the vast majority of the clergy he met in the Vatican were themselves gay, and that he slept with at least several of them. In the process of leaving the priesthood, Pope Francis told him he was moved by his “consistency” and “courage” and once he was out, he became the star witness of Frédéric Martel’s buzzy 2019 book “In the Closet of the Vatican,” where Mr. Lepore’s naming names and estimates of 80 percent of the Vatican being gay made a splash.
    CIPG_20210612_NYT_Gay-Vatican-Latini...jpg
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