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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Addiopizzo t-shirts hang on a wall of tearsheets of news related to the pizzo phenomenon, here at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: The gazebo and sitting area of  Sconzajuoco, the beach managed by the Addiopizzo Committee in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: Entrance of Sconzajuoco, the beach managed by the Addiopizzo Committee in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: Entrance of Sconzajuoco, the beach managed by the Addiopizzo Committee in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: Addiopizzo bags are on sale here at Sconzajuoco, the beach managed by the Addiopizzo Committee in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: Entrance of Sconzajuoco, the beach managed by the Addiopizzo Committee in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: (L-R) Chiara Utro (31) and Francesca Vannini Parenti (33) of the Addiopizzo Travel staff, work here at the headquarters in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo Travel is a tour operator that emerged as a branch of Addiopizzo; it is an extension of the ethical consumer strategy against  the pizzo that specifically targets the tourism field.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Travel, is here at his workstation at the Addiopizzo Travel headquarters in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo Travel is a tour operator that emerged as a branch of Addiopizzo; it is an extension of the ethical consumer strategy against  the pizzo that specifically targets the tourism field.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Travel, steps inside the Addiopizzo Travel headquarters in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo Travel is a tour operator that emerged as a branch of Addiopizzo; it is an extension of the ethical consumer strategy against  the pizzo that specifically targets the tourism field.<br />
 <br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Addiopizzo stickers are here at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Addiopizzo stickers are here at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: An Addiopizzo t-shirt hangs on a wall of tearsheets of news related to the pizzo phenomenon, here at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: The conference room at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: A reading corner at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in a street of the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in a street of the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in a street of the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in Piazza Magione, in the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: Bathers are here by the Sconzajuoco beach, managed by the Addiopizzo Committee in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2014: Seats with the names of Giovanni (Falcone) and Paolo (Borsellino), the two anti-mafia judges assassinated by the mafia in 1992, are here at the entrance of Sconzajuoco, the beach by Addiopizzo in Isola delle Femmine, Italy, on August 23rd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140825_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Travel, sits in the meeting room of the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: The bulletin board here at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: The meeting room of the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: An Addiopizzo t-shirt hangs on a wall of tearsheets of news related to the pizzo phenomenon, here at the Addiopizzo headquarters in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: "The people who pay the pizzo are a people without dignity", the phrase that appeared  is written here at the headquarters of the Addiopizzo in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in a street of the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in a street of the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in Piazza Magione, in the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in Piazza Magione, in the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 22 AUGUST 2014: Edoardo Zaffuto (38), co-founder of Addiopizzo and Addiopizzo Trave, poses for a portrait in Piazza Magione, in the "Kalsa" district in Palermo, Italy, on August 22nd 2014.<br />
<br />
Addiopizzo (English: "Goodbye Pizzo") is a grassroots movement  founded in Palermo in 2001 whose goal is to establish to build a community of businesses and consumers who refuse to pay the "pizzo", the Mafia extortion money.
    CIPG_20140822_NEWSWEEK_AddioPizzo__M...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 9 MAY 2019: The environment "Tutto il resto spegnere II (Homage a E. F.)"  (2019) by Enrico David, comprising "The Incessant" (2017), "Racket II" (2017), "Self Dug Trench" (2018),<br />
"Fortress Shadow" (2017),<br />
"Untitled (Orologio)" (2007) are seen here in the exhibition "Neither Nor: The challenge to the Labyrinth", curated by Milovan Farronato, at the Italian Pavilion during the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy, on May 9th 2019.<br />
<br />
"Neither Nor: The challenge to the Labyrinth" is the title of the exhibition, curated by Milovan Farronato for the Italian Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in which three Italian artists are taking part, presenting completely new works along with ones from the past: Enrico David (Ancona, 1966), Chiara Fumai (Rome, 1978 – Bari, 2017) and Liliana Moro (Milan, 1961).  The subtitle of the project alludes to “La sfida al labirinto” (“The Challenge to the Labyrinth”) a seminal essay written by Italo Calvino in 1962 that has been the inspiration for Neither Nor. In this text the author proposes a cultural work open to all possible languages and that feels itself co-responsible in the construction of a world which, having lost its traditional points of reference, no longer asks to be merely represented. To visualize the intricate forms of contemporary reality, Calvino turns to the vivid metaphor of the labyrinth: an apparent maze of lines and tendencies that is in reality constructed on the basis of strict rules. <br />
<br />
The 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled "May You Live In Interesting Times”,is curated by Ralph Rugoff.  The Exhibition is is divided into two separate presentations, Proposition A in the Arsenale and Proposition B in the Giardini’s Central Pavilion, comprising 79 artists from all over the world.  “May You Live In Interesting Times highlights artworks whose forms function in part to call atte
    CIPG_20190509_NYT_Biennale_M3_7039.jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 9 MAY 2019: "Racket II" (2017) by Enrico David is seen here in the exhibition "Neither Nor: The challenge to the Labyrinth", curated by Milovan Farronato, at the Italian Pavilion during the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy, on May 9th 2019.<br />
<br />
"Neither Nor: The challenge to the Labyrinth" is the title of the exhibition, curated by Milovan Farronato for the Italian Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in which three Italian artists are taking part, presenting completely new works along with ones from the past: Enrico David (Ancona, 1966), Chiara Fumai (Rome, 1978 – Bari, 2017) and Liliana Moro (Milan, 1961).  The subtitle of the project alludes to “La sfida al labirinto” (“The Challenge to the Labyrinth”) a seminal essay written by Italo Calvino in 1962 that has been the inspiration for Neither Nor. In this text the author proposes a cultural work open to all possible languages and that feels itself co-responsible in the construction of a world which, having lost its traditional points of reference, no longer asks to be merely represented. To visualize the intricate forms of contemporary reality, Calvino turns to the vivid metaphor of the labyrinth: an apparent maze of lines and tendencies that is in reality constructed on the basis of strict rules. <br />
<br />
The 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled "May You Live In Interesting Times”,is curated by Ralph Rugoff.  The Exhibition is is divided into two separate presentations, Proposition A in the Arsenale and Proposition B in the Giardini’s Central Pavilion, comprising 79 artists from all over the world.  “May You Live In Interesting Times highlights artworks whose forms function in part to call attention to what forms conceal and the multifarious purposes that they fulfil. In an indirect manner, then, perhaps these artworks can serve as a kind of guide for how to live and think in ‘
    CIPG_20190509_NYT_Biennale_M3_7041.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_567...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_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_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_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
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Customers have dinner at Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, in Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Salvatore, a pizzaoiolo working at Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, places a cooked pizza on a dish, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Salvatore, a pizzaoiolo working at Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, places a cooked pizza on a dish, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Exterior of Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Exterior of Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Kafih El Houssaine, 50, a Moroccan-born<br />
waitor at Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, waits for clients, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
<br />
"We were very surprised," Mr Houssaine said; "I've worked with them for 18<br />
years and never had a single doubt."<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Pizza take away boxes are piled up on a shelf under a painting of Mount Vesuvius at Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: A waitor at Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, in Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Paintings of the volcano Mount Vesuvius and of the Gulf of Naples inside Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Interior of Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, in Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014. <br />
<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Salvatore, a pizzaoiolo working at Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, puts a pizza in the oven, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Menus are piled up on a table at the entrance of Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Menus are piled up on a table at the entrance of Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: The pizza prep table, oven and take away boxes at Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: Interior of Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, with a painting of of the volcano Mount Vesuvius and Pulcinella,  a classical character that originated in the commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 6 APRIL, 2014: The pizza prep table, oven and take away boxes at Pizza Ciro, a pizzeria and restaurant seized by the police in January, in central Rome, Italy, on April 6th 2014.<br />
<br />
Pizza Ciro, along with more than 20 other well-known restaurants in Rome, is under special court administration after police raids in January, when arrest warrants were issued for 90 people accused of being linked to the Contini clan, part of the Neapolitan Mafia known as the Camorra. Prosecutors allege the restaurants were used for money-laundering to "clean” some of the illicit funds stemming from drug-running, extortion rackets and usury.
    CIPG_20140407_NYT_MafiaRestaurants__...jpg