The government on Thursday dissolved the council of the coastal town of Ostia near Rome because of mafia infiltration and after a string of corruption scandals, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told reporters after a cabinet meeting on Rome's woes.
Former Ostia town council chairman Andrea Tassone was arrested in June along with 43 others in connection with the Rome mafia case into a crime ring that allegedly includes gangsters, businessmen and politicians.
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