Lorenzo Tondo at the Guardian
offers a piece on the arrest of a woman known in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra as La Padrona.
A female mobster suspected of
being the mastermind behind a reshuffle of the Sicilian mafia after a series of
high profile arrests has been taken into custody, Italian police have said.
Mariangela Di Trapani, 49,
was arrested on charges of having managed the business of the Resuttana family,
one of the most important Cosa Nostra clans in Sicily. The other bosses called
her La Padrona, or the Mistress.
“They were trying to
reorganise,” said Col Antonio Di Stasio of the carabinieri, Italy’s military
police, who oversaw the operation that also led to the arrest of 24 other
suspects.
Police said Di Trapani was
the link between the bosses in prison and those still at large and she had been
appointed to liaise with other clans on the relaunch of Cosa Nostra. The
Sicilian mafia is in a weakened state as prosecutors have jailed its key bosses
and the death last month of the “boss of bosses” Totò Riina.
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