Religious procession ban after mafia nod

(ANSA) Oppido Palmi, July 10 - A Calabrian bishop suspended indefinitely religious processions in his diocese Thursday after a group of faithful following a statue of the Madonna purportedly gave a bow of respect to a notorious crime boss.
    Monsignor Giuseppe Acquaro, bishop of Oppido-Palmi, announced the ban to a meeting of Diocesan priests in the town of Rizziconi held to discuss the furore that erupted after a Carabinieri paramilitary police officer denounced the July 2 incident in which parishioners allegedly bowed in front of the house of Peppe Mazzagatti, an 82-year-old kingpin of the 'Ndrangheta, the more powerful Calabrian sister of the Cosa Nostra.