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How rival clans put guns down for historic ‘mafia wedding’
Gioacchino Amico, top, was married at the Villa Di Lorenzo near Palermo. One guest was Antonio Messina, previously jailed
As he made plans for his wedding, Gioacchino Amico grew increasingly excited about the number of guests arriving from every corner of southern Italy.
“Damn, there will be Neapolitans, Calabrians, Sicilians — how can I do better than that?” he told a friend.
The Sicilian’s marriage in 2021 was shaping up to be a rare coming together of mafia bosses from Italy’s three largest mobs — or, as Amico put it, “All of them respectable people!”
Listening in via a wiretap, police realised they had stumbled upon plans for a party that would cement a criminal alliance forged at the other end of Italy.
Investigators had bugged Amico to learn more about the pact, aimed at increasing mob control over the wealthy northern city of
