(ANSA) - Lecce, December 19 - Italian police on Wednesday
provided an anti-mafia priest with a escort after his car was
shot at while parked near Lecce in Puglia.
Father Antonio Coluccia of the Specchia diocese will be
escorted by two police in a back-up car, police said.
The Puglia mafia, the Sacra Corona Unita (United Sacred
Crown, SCU) is the smallest of Italy's four mafias.
It has dwindled to a fraction of its former strength thanks
to waves of police action.
But, unlike the other mafias, it has not stopped killing to
claim turf and retain power.
The other three mafias are 'Ndrangheta from Calabria, Cosa
Nostra from Sicily and the Camorra from Naples.
Anti-mafia priest gets escort
Father Antonio Coluccia to be guarded by 2 officers