Word: carabinieri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sabatino dispatched four twelve-man patrols to Montalto. The local cops and national carabinieri Jeeped to within a mile of the peak, then fanned out on foot. Climbing through oak and beech, then pine and fir, one of the carabinieri patrols suddenly flushed a man with a gun, who appeared to be some sort of sentry. Persuaded by the gun in his back, the sentry led the police up to a glade where some 130 men were gathered. Six of the men, apparently wary of informers, wore black hoods. Most were heavily armed, and all were obviously members...
...Defregger dossier, L'Osservatore's editorial-the Vatican's first official comment on the case-scrupulously avoided taking a stand that would prejudge an official investigation currently going on in Italy concerning Defregger's role in the massacre at Filletto di Camardo. (The Italian carabinieri have issued a warrant for Defregger's arrest if he crosses the border, with the deferential provision that he not be handcuffed if he is taken.) "The basic problem," the paper said, "is whether [Defregger] is today, spiritually and morally, a 'new man.' " The editorial somewhat ambiguously cited...
...months the carabinieri had been keeping an eagle eye on a padlocked wine cellar in the Adriatic seaport of Porto d'Ascoli. In it were 3,400,000 quarts of red wine stored in vats sealed by the police. The wine, an adulterated brew made of such confections as tar acid, ammonia, glycerin, citric acid, a sludge taken from the bottom of banana boats, and, of course, alcohol, was Exhibit A in a continuing case against 260 defendants charged with selling the grapeless vino throughout Italy. Oddly enough, those who sampled the stuff swore it tasted exactly like ordinary...
After a search ranging from the River Po to the Bay of Naples, the carabinieri found their culprit right at home in Porto d'Ascoli. He was Fabbio Lanciotti, owner of a large winery and one of the defendants in the wine trial. Lanciotti had been able to make off with Exhibit A against him because the police had had the lack of foresight to store the impounded wine in Lanciotti's own wine cellar (the biggest in town). While free on bail, Lanciotti had been given permission to go on producing wine and had quietly siphoned...
When jailed, Lanciotti reportedly admitted everything, even that he had destroyed the $240,000 when he panicked as police closed in, though few believed the story. The carabinieri rounded up ten new defendants, six of them for selling the Lanciotti wine to shops and restaurants...