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| Security tight for Italy funerals | Security tight for Italy funerals |
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| Funerals for five of the six Italians killed in Germany last week in what has been described as a Mafia vendetta are due to be held in southern Italy. | |
| Police in Calabria fear further violence as members of a local crime clan may be planning revenge killings. | Police in Calabria fear further violence as members of a local crime clan may be planning revenge killings. |
| Security will be extremely tight and though the services will be public, funeral processions have been banned. | Security will be extremely tight and though the services will be public, funeral processions have been banned. |
| The bullet-riddled bodies of the victims were found near an Italian restaurant in the city of Duisburg. | The bullet-riddled bodies of the victims were found near an Italian restaurant in the city of Duisburg. |
| Italian police are convinced that the six murders outside an Italian pizza parlour were a settling of accounts between rival families belonging to a powerful criminal organisation called 'Ndrangheta, which operates from headquarters in southern Italy. | Italian police are convinced that the six murders outside an Italian pizza parlour were a settling of accounts between rival families belonging to a powerful criminal organisation called 'Ndrangheta, which operates from headquarters in southern Italy. |
| Police say the 'Ndrangheta engages in money laundering, protection rackets and drug trafficking all over Europe, but that it is controlled by a small group of families all living in a remote mountainous area in the toe of Italy. | Police say the 'Ndrangheta engages in money laundering, protection rackets and drug trafficking all over Europe, but that it is controlled by a small group of families all living in a remote mountainous area in the toe of Italy. |
| Killed on birthday | Killed on birthday |
| There will be three funerals for five of the victims of the slaying. The sixth victim, Tommaso Venturi, whose 18th birthday was being celebrated at the pizza parlour, lived in Germany and will be buried there. | There will be three funerals for five of the victims of the slaying. The sixth victim, Tommaso Venturi, whose 18th birthday was being celebrated at the pizza parlour, lived in Germany and will be buried there. |
| Police in Calabria are allowing Thursday's public funerals at the request of the families, but they have banned any funeral processions to the church or to the cemetery on the grounds of public order. | |
| A senior police officer said the killings could continue as families which have been carrying on a deadly vendetta for more than a decade vow to seek revenge for the murders. | A senior police officer said the killings could continue as families which have been carrying on a deadly vendetta for more than a decade vow to seek revenge for the murders. |
| No arrests have yet been made in connection with the killings either in Germany or in Italy. | No arrests have yet been made in connection with the killings either in Germany or in Italy. |