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Cousin of Sicilian mob boss fights ‘Mafia mentality’

Cousin of Sicilian mob boss fights ‘Mafia mentality’

CASTELVETRANO: As the son of a mafioso turned state witness and a cousin of captured Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro, Giuseppe Cimarosa has seen the Sicilian Mafia and its intimidation tactics up close.But while many in Messina Denaro's hometown of Castelvetrano stayed silent following his arrest last week after 30 years on the run, Cimarosa organised a demonstration against the Mafia in front of the mobster's ancestral home.“Now the real battle is cultural. Now you have to change people’s mentality,“ the 40-year-old riding instructor told AFP at his stables in the town in western Sicily, where the mob boss was born and reigned with terror.“Now the enemy is no longer the Mafia but the Mafia-like behaviour or simply a way of thinking that unfortunately is still rampant.“We must start with teaching in schools, and then the state has to support those who, like me, rebel.”Cimarosa was disappointed that the turnout at last week's small protest was not higher, but he himself breathed

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