A man convicted last
week in the sprawling 'Aemilia' trial on 'Ndrangheta Calabrian
mafia infiltration in Emilia holed up in a post office near
Reggio Emilia Monday, taking staff hostage with a knife, local
sources said.
According to early reports, the man allowed all the customers
out of the branch before taking hostage five staff including the
woman director.
Police are on the scene and have blocked roads and started
negotiating, sources said.
The man had been on the run since last week's 'Aemilia' trial
which handed down 118 sentences totalling over 1,200 years in
jail, including the father of former soccer player Vincenzo
Iaquinta, who got 19 years.
Iaquinta himself got two years for weapons possession but was
cleared of mafia charges.
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