A court in Sicily has ruled that an accused Mafioso can be put under house arrest because he is too fat for any Italian jail. Salvatore Ferranti, who weighs 210kg, was allowed to go home after spending six months in four Italian prisons, his lawyer said, confirming a local newspaper report.
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/ 5 December 2007
Cosa Nostra was on Tuesday reeling from the latest in a succession of blows after the arrest of dozens of reputed mafiosi in the Sicilian city of Catania. They included the son of the city’s jailed ”godfather”. The raids which netted 38-year-old Vincenzo Santapaola and 37 others came a day after police shot and killed another mafia leader.
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/ 30 November 2007
Italian police burst into the room of a suspected Mafia mobster in Sicily and arrested him as he watched a television show about the arrest of a Mafia boss, investigators said on Friday. Police said Michele Catalano was watching the concluding chapter late on Thursday of the TV mini-series The Boss of Bosses when he was detained.