Gallery: News Muse-Oct-7-2012
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Police station, Castelvetrano
A police station was inaugurated Monday on land confiscated from the Mafia in Castelvetrano, home base of fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro. (Location: Via Giallonghi)
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Beach, San Vito Lo Capo
Bosses Matteo Messina Denaro and Bernardo Provenzano each had business interests in the beach town's tourist trade, the latter in partnership with Salvatore Lo Piccolo.
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Cemetery, Cattolica Eraclea
Montreal's "Teflon Don," Vito Rizzuto, will have to return to his native town eventually to spend eternity in a concrete crypt. Who gets that cement job? (Location: Via Oreto)
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Temple ruins, Agrigento
Money and assets confiscated from regional boss Giuseppe Falsone will (hopefully) be funneled back into municipal coffers drained by the Mafia. (Location: Valley of the Temples)
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Lo Piccolo hideout, Giardinello
Capomafia Provenzano's heir apparent, Salvatore Lo Piccolo, was captured in 2007 with his son Sandro in this Mafia safe house. (Location: Contrada di Partadinello)
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Lo Piccolo car wash, Palermo
The business belonging to Lo Piccolo's youngest son, Claudio, was put under police surveillance even though he played it straight. (Location: Via Fabio Besta, 18)