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    How the south was buried in concrete

    Aug 06, 2021 3 minutes
    By Roberto Saviano and Lorenzo Tondo PALERMO

    If you ask Maurizio Carta what the mafia looks like, he will take you to the residential areas of the Sicilian capital of Palermo. There, hundreds of desolate, grey apartment blocks scar the suburbs and a vast part of the historic centre.

    It is the result of a building frenzy of the 1960s and 1970s, when Vito Ciancimino, a mobster from the violent Corleonesi clan, ordered

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