Word: carabinieri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They came for him just after dawn. As 400 paramilitary carabinieri surrounded the Caccamo, Sicily, farmhouse and two helicopters hovered overhead, police burst through the door. Inside, they found two men. One of them produced documents saying he was Giuseppe di Fresco. His captors knew better. The man's identity: Michele Greco, also known as ll Papa, the pope of the Sicilian Mafia. "Yes, I am Greco," he is said to have admitted after several hours of interrogation. "You are behaving like gentlemen, and I don't want to waste your time...
...permission for the intercepted EgyptAir Boeing 737 to land at the Sigonella air base in Sicily, the American military escorts declared a "fuel emergency" and ordered the 737 down. The pilot aborted his first approach. But he swung around, came in again and soon found himself surrounded by Italian carabinieri and some 50 U.S. Delta Force commandos, who had piled out of U.S. C-141 transport planes that had landed within moments of the EgyptAir craft and were proceeding on orders from the White House to take custody of the terrorists...
...side were two carabinieri, the Italian uniformed authorities. They wanted him to put his pants on and get out of the middle of the street. For several minutes he steadfastly refused. The crowd backed him forcefully. "I-TAL-IA! I-TAL-IA! I-TAL-IA!" they shouted supportively reinforcing the lone man's patriotism...
...arguing continued for five full minutes. Finally, the man wearing the flag relented. He nodded his head. He hugged the carabinieri one at a time, kissing them on both cheeks Tears--or was it sweat--were visible on his face. The carabinieri smiled, while the blue lights continued to flash in the background...
Conducted in a fortress-like Rome gymnasium guarded by several hundred police and carabinieri, the trial lasted nearly nine months and involved testimony from 298 witnesses. Throughout the proceedings, the defendants, 18 of whom were women, were penned in six steel cages, while those who had become informants were protected by bulletproof glass. As one of the cooperative terrorists walked to his seat last week, a defendant yelled, "You would sell your own mother...