Marchers in ‘Mafia town’ don white hoods after ban lift
Despite Mayor Nicolo Nicolosi’s insistence that Corleone has changed from the crime-ridden provincial village portrayed in Francis Ford Coppola’s film version of The Godfather, it is hard to ignore the facts. Several high-ranking Mafiosi have hailed from Corleone and in the last century there were regular bloody killings on the streets of the town.
The traditional Easter commemoration of Christ’s path to crucifixion was always elaborate, with thousands lining the streets and participants donning white robes and pointed hoods resembling those of the supremacist Ku Klux Klan.
