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Corleone local govt dissolved over mafia links
short by Yash Kumar / on Thursday, 11 August, 2016
The government of the Italian town of Corleone and three other local governments were shut down by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's government over their links to the mafia. Since 1991, over 200 local governments in Italy have been shut down for similar reasons. This crackdown by the government comes after the assassination of two prominent anti-mafia judges.
read more at The Guardian