Italian police crush attempts to rebuild mafia
In an operation codenamed Perseus, around 1,200 police backed by helicopters and dog handlers arrested mafia clan leaders and members in Sicily’s Palermo region and in Tuscany, in central Italy.
The sweep followed a nine-month probe, Palermo police said, adding that those detained were suspected of wanting to revive Italy’s largest crime syndicate, whose last known “boss of bosses”, Bernado Provenzano, was arrested in April 2006.