Blood Brotherhoods (152 page)

Piccioterria (Lads with Attitude),
119–120

All Saints bagpipe party,
127–133

AMGOT and,
274–276

camorra and,
125–126

as constellation of gangs,
131

emigrating to America,
197–200

fascist campaign against,
231–234
,
237–241

Giuseppe Musolino,
141
,
142–153

growth of,
282
,
283

initiation ritual,
124

judicial leniency and,
240–241

kinship and,
243–244
,
253

lack of state interest in,
137–138

Madonna of Polsi and,
135–137

mass arrests of,
148

Maviglia murder and,
132–135

organisation of,
124

origins of,
122–126

as part of ruling class,
200–201

pimping and prostitution and,
244
,
245–246

post–World War I,
235–238

prosecution of,
140–141

reason for emergence of,
138–140

tattoos,
124

See also
Camorra (Neapolitan/Campanian mafia)

Picciotti de sgarro
,
39

Picciotto d’onore
,
xlv

Piccola Pretura
(Lo Schiavo),
294–296
,
299

Piccoli, Flaminio,
485
,
486

Piedmont, ’ndrangheta in,
495–496

Pimping,
76–77
,
96
,
244

Pinelli, Giuseppe,
404

Pirandello, Luigi,
306

Pirelli,
158

Piromalli, Gioacchino,
401
,
407

Piromalli, Girolamo (Mommo),
401–402
,
429
,
430
,
431
,
432

Piromalli, Giuseppe,
432
,
490
,
594

Piromalli clan,
616

Pistone, Joseph D. (Donnie Brasco),
447–448

Pizza Connection,
438
,
448

Plain of Gioia Tauro,
121–126

Platì,
266
,
417
,
615
,
619

P2 Masonic Lodge,
449
,
484
,
513

Poems and Thoughts
(Cutolo),
454
,
456
,
458

Poggioreale prison,
348
,
431
,
451–452
,
455
,
472–473
,
479–480
,
518
,
584

Police

Cuocolo trial and,
214–217

fight against banditry,
300

mafia-fighters,
67–68

torture and,
533

See also
Carabinieri

Police alliance

with Calabrian mafia,
15–20
,
25–31

with ’ndrangheta,
124

with Sicilian mafia,
72

Political Prisons and Jails
(Castromediano),
14

Politicians, mafias and,
655–656

camorra,
44

Cold War and,
567–568

’ndrangheta,
340–343
,
344

piccotteria and strong-arm politics,
139–140

Sicilian mafia,
61–62
,
218
,
592–593
,
655–656

See also
The Left (Italian coalition)
;
The Right (Italian coalition)

Polito, Francesco,
247–248
,
251
,
252
,
253

Polito, Maria,
327

Polito, Nicola,
327

Pollifroni, Nicola,
248
,
252

Porta Nuova Family,
529
,
553

Portobello
(television show),
519–520

Positivist sociology, mafia and,
94–98

Poverty of southern Italy,
120
,
178
,
195
,
234
,
328
,
333
,
361
,
363
,
476–477
,
537
,
620–621

Prepotenza
,
129
,
130

Prestigiacomo, Giovanni,
467

Prezzolini, Giuseppe,
324

Price fixing, Naples fruit and vegetable market,
352–354

Princi, Antonio,
144

Principle of the line,
243

Prison gangs,
138

Prison system as theatre of mafia activity,
3–6
,
7–14
,
112–114
,
123
,
126
,
138
,
452
,
658

Procida prison,
9–10

Profaci, Joe,
378

La Propaganda
(newspaper),
183

Propaganda 2 (P2),
428

Pro Sicilia
Committee,
179–181

Prostitution/prostitutes,
76–77
,
125
,
244
,
245–246
,
277–278
,
650

Protection rackets,
288

camorra,
4–5
,
7
,
76
,
101
,
109
,
230–231
,
275
,
313
,
626

mafiosi and,
167

’ndrangheta,
427
,
651

piccioterria,
122
,
240

Sicilian mafia,
54–55
,
58
,
60
,
164
,
167
,
288
,
295–296
,
364
,
610
,
613–614
,
653

Provenzano, Bernardo (the Tractor),
411
,
413
,
414
,
415
,
604–606
,
608–610
,
613
,
655

Psychological Warfare

Branch (PWB),
277
,
278
,
280

Puglia,
462

mafias’ presence in,
493

Sacred United Crown,
491–493

Puglia, Giuseppe Mario,
294–295

Puppet theatre,
310–311

Purita, Latino,
330
,
332

PWB.
See
Psychological Warfare Branch (PWB)

Quindici, Antonio
(‘O Grifone)
,
315–316

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act,
511

Radical Party,
524

Railways, role in emergence of piccotteria,
139

Rapi, Giovanni (Johnny the Teacher),
193
,
194
,
199–200
,
204
,
213

Ravelli, Aldo,
496