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| Security tight at Italy funerals | Security tight at 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 have been held in southern Italy. | |
| The funerals were held amid tight security and the usual processions to the cemetery were banned. | The funerals were held amid tight security and the usual processions to the cemetery were banned. |
| Police in the Calabria region feared that members of a local crime clan might be planning revenge killings. | |
| The bullet-riddled bodies of the victims were found near a pizza parlour in the German city of Duisburg. | The bullet-riddled bodies of the victims were found near a pizza parlour in the German city of Duisburg. |
| Italian police are convinced that the murders 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 murders 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 |
| Family members threw red roses and applauded as the caskets containing the bodies of brothers Francesco and Marco Pergola were carried from a church in their home village of Siderno, near San Luca. | Family members threw red roses and applauded as the caskets containing the bodies of brothers Francesco and Marco Pergola were carried from a church in their home village of Siderno, near San Luca. |
| The caskets were quickly driven to a local ceremony instead of being carried in the traditional procession through the village streets. | The caskets were quickly driven to a local ceremony instead of being carried in the traditional procession through the village streets. |
| Police allowed the funerals to be public but banned the processions on the grounds of public order. | Police allowed the funerals to be public but banned the processions on the grounds of public order. |
| Three more victims of the killings - Sebastiano Strangio, Marco Marmo and Francesco Giorgi - were later buried in the village of San Luca amid similar security arrangements. | |
| The sixth victim, Tommaso Venturi, whose 18th birthday was being celebrated at the pizza parlour, lived in Germany and will be buried there. | |
| A senior police officer said the killings might continue as families which have been carrying on a deadly vendetta for more than a decade vowed 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. |