- Title: ITALY: POLICE IN SICILY ARREST 15 SUSPECTED MAFIA BOSSES.
- Date: 17th July 2002
- Summary: (U7) NEAR AGRIGENTO, SICILY (JULY 14, 2002) (RTI - NO ACCESS ITALY/INTERNET) 1. TRACK: POLICE SPECIAL FORCES RUNNING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE 0.08 2. GV/TILT: OUTSIDE STAIRS OF COUNTRY HOUSE WHERE BOSSES WERE MEETING 0.14 3. PAN/TRACK: POLICE RUNNING AWAY FROM HOUSE WITH HOODED ARRESTED MAN 0.23 4. LV/ZOOM IN/GV: COUNTRY HOUSE 0.28 5. MCU/PAN: PALERMOS CHIEF ANTI-MAFIA PROSECUTOR, PIETRO GRASSO, SHORTLY AFTER ARRESTS 0.38 (U7) ROME, ITALY (JULY 12, 2002) (REUTERS) 6. GV/TILT DOWN: EXTERIOR OF SENATE 0.45 7. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) FORMER ANTI-MAFIA PROSECUTOR, NOW SENATOR, GIUSEPPE AJALA SAYING "Now the mafia has gone back to its old strategy, that is to go deep underground, to be invisible. At the same time they have restructured the internal organisation in order to minimise possible damages coming from police collaborators (pentiti). Now you have less mafia members who give information to the police because they know much less. To fight the mafia today is harder than ten years ago." 1.13 8. SV/CU: ANTI-MAFIA ACTIVIST ENRICO FONTANA IN HIS OFFICE (3 SHOTS) 1.24 9. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) FONTANA SAYING "Mafia bosses today feel that they cano come out again, the sense the business that comes from the public and EU funds recently destined to Southern Italy. They are more confident than they were a few years ago. They are a strong mafia and they worry us 1.41 (U7) AGRIGENTO, SICILY (JULY 14, 2002) (RTI - NO ACCESS ITALY/INTERNET) 10. GV/MV/PAN: VARIOUS OF BOSSES BEING TRANSFERRED FROM POLICE STATION TO JAIL (4 SHOTS) 2.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NEAR AGRIGENTO, SICILY, AND ROME, ITALY
- Country: Italy
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