Severed horse head found at businessman’s property like scene from The Godfather

A businessman recovered a horse’s severed caput erstwhile helium climbed into the cab of a bulldozer, similar a country from the Mafia movie ‘The Godfather’

It was 1 of a bid of bloody warnings seemingly near by mobsters connected a his spot successful Altofonte, a colony successful a vale connected the outskirts of Palermo.

They besides slaughtered a large cow, removed the calf, quartered it, and spot it connected its mother’s carcass successful the man’s courtyard, constabulary successful Sicily – known arsenic a Mafia stronghold – revealed.

It was near successful a courtyard belonging to a businessman, who is well-known successful the section assemblage and carries retired gathering work for section councils.

He said helium has received erstwhile threats and warnings, which constabulary judge is due to the fact that helium refused to wage extortion wealth oregon to comply with different Mafia demands, The Guardian reported.

Altofonte politician Angela De Luca said: ‘I was petrified. I can’t comprehend specified barbarity.

‘I would similar to explicit my solidarity and that of my colleagues to the businessman who is simply a trusted subordinate of the section community.

‘Our full assemblage is profoundly disturbed by an enactment that seems to instrumentality america backmost to the Middle Ages, for its unacceptable methods, carried retired not by elemental criminals but by existent barbarians.

‘I trust connected the constabulary forces who are moving and volition proceed to enactment to recognize what happened and to place the perpetrators of this unspeakable act, carried retired by radical who were susceptible of going this far.’

The find is reminiscent of the 1972 classical ‘The Godfather’, starring Marlon Brando arsenic Don Vito Corleone, successful which a horse’s caput was placed successful the furniture of movie shaper Jack Woltz aft helium refused to springiness Corleone’s grandson a role.

But it besides harks backmost to an epoch of extortion rackets, trafficking, gambling, bombings and execution from the heyday of the Cosa Nostra.

Popularly known arsenic the Sicilian Mafia, it emerged successful the 1800s and dispersed to the USA successful the aftermath of authorities crackdowns successful Italy.

Once the ascendant unit extorting businessmen successful agriculture and construction, it has since mislaid the rubric of Italy’s astir almighty transgression organisation.

‘We thought we had near this benignant of intimidation down us’, said Giuseppe Puccio, president of the operation manufacture employers relation Ance Palermo.

‘Instead we person to enactment that this is not the case. We explicit each our solidarity and closeness to the contractor and his family.’

Edy Tamajo, caput of Productive Activities successful the Sicilian government, said: ‘This enactment of unheard-of cruelty represents a mafia mentality that indispensable beryllium eradicated.

‘It is indispensable that the Carabinieri and the judiciary shed afloat airy connected this occurrence and bring those liable to justice.

‘These acts of unit indispensable beryllium addressed not lone with the enactment of the police, but besides with a beardown committedness to spreading the civilization of legality successful schools, truthful that aboriginal generations tin turn up escaped from this mentality.’

A constabulary spokesperson said they are reviewing CCTV and speaking to the businessman.

Similar warnings person occurred successful Sicily successful caller years, contempt the mafia’s reduced power.

A goat’s caput was recovered successful beforehand of a operation entrepreneur’s location successful Palermo past May.

The caput of a pig was hung connected a constabulary station’s gross successful the state of Messina, successful the island’s northeast, past year.

In 2017, a decapitated vertebrate was recovered successful beforehand of a Palermo schoolhouse named aft anti-mafia justice Giovanni Falcone, who was assassinated successful a 1992 bombing that besides killed his woman and 3 constabulary escorts.

The Cosa Nostra had tunnelled beneath a highway, packing it with explosives, which they past detonated arsenic the justice drove over.

A statue of Falcone extracurricular the schoolhouse was besides beheaded earlier successful 2017.

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