Rosario Crocetta has lived under close police protection in Italy ever since 2003, when the mafia tried to murder him. He was mayor of the southern Sicilian city of Gela, population 100,000. He is now a member of the European Parliament (an MEP). He had set up an associatio...
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L’eurodéputé italien Rosario Crocetta vit sous haute protection depuis 2003, lorsque la mafia a tenté de l‘éliminer. A l‘époque, il était maire de Gela, une petite ville de Sicile. Fort de la confiance de la population, il avait créé avec des entrepreneurs une association anti-racket qui entrava...
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Seit sechs Jahren lebt der Europa-Abgeordnete Rosario Crocetta unter Polizeischutz – seit die Mafia ihm 2003 nach dem Leben trachtete. Damals war er Bürgermeister von Gela, einer Kleinstadt auf Sizilien. In Gela hatte er einen Verein gegen Schutzgeld-Erpressung gegründet – das passte den Bossen ...
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Up to 9,500 European jobs could be cut at car-maker Opel, if General Motors implement their reorganisation plan. That adds up to nearly 20 per cent of the workforce. General Motors has said in the past that up to 10,000 jobs would go at Opel and its British ar...
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British bank, Lloyds, are planning to sell hugely discounted shares at almost 60 per cent less than their closing price on Monday night. The bank is hoping people will snap up the deal, raising much-needed funds. Lloyds is the UK’s largest retail bank and this sale of shar...
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Of the 11,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, Marwan Barghouti is probably the most important. He’s the most charismatic leader the Palestinians have and could have the weight to unite the feuding Fatah and Hamas factions. He’s serving five life sentences for masterminding a series of at...
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The British government of the time was staunchly behind the American-led invasion of Iraq. Then-Prime Minister Tony Blair said intelligence justified joining the fight to topple Saddam Hussein: “It (the intelligence) concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Sad...
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The World Health Organisation’s latest report on the AIDS pandemic says overall infections worldwide are up, but those infected are living longer thanks to the availability of drugs. It also seems the speed at which the disease is being contracted is falling, with new HIV infections falling 17 p...
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The US economy has not expanded as much as expected. Figures show the annual growth rate for the third quarter is only 2.8 per cent, less than the 3.5 per cent predicted. This shows American consumers are not spending as much as hoped, and the country’s trade deficit has i...
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Scientists operating the world’s biggest ‘‘Big Bang Machine’‘ have smashed together proton beams for the first time. The collisions in the Large Hadron Collider housed in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the French-Swiss border came sooner than expected and engineers described the step as a ‘great ach...
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Anti-mafia MEP Crocetta still unguarded
