Two people were kneecapped in a
ambush in the crime-ridden Roman costal municipality of Ostia
Thursday night. A man wearing a motorbike helmet entered the
premises in Via Canaria at around 22:00 local (21:00 GMT) and
shot the 50-year-old father of the owner and the 41-year-old
pizzaiolo. Police said Friday the attack may have been a
reckoning in a feud among criminal gangs or it may have been
linked to a local racket. Two criminal families, the Spadas and
the Falcianis, run a series of rackets in the coastal town and
the municipality was dissolved for mafia infiltration two years
ago.
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