Italy Considers Exiling Mafia Bosses to Islands
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ROME — Stung by the murder of leading Mafia fighting Giovanni Falcone, officials are considering exiling mob bosses to remote islands--reviving a tactic Fascists used against organized crime.
“It would be a preventive measure, which can be used quite aside from any investigations or trial to send bosses away from their fiefdoms,” a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said of the plan. He said the Cabinet will discuss the issue next week.
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