Businessman and three times prime minister Silvio Berlusconi sits with a .357 Magnum on his desk, as he feared being kidnapped by the Mafia, 1977 – [2048×1536]
Never seen him this young, or slender. In 1977 Berlusconi was only a businessman however, he did not enter politics till 1994. In the 1970s/1980s there was a wave of kidnappings of wealthy people in Northwestern Italy by ‘cells’ of the Calabrian Mafia (‘Ndrangheta) which used the ransom money to finance its criminal activities.
jmaigret
Adriano Celentano?
MisterMistre
Never seen him this young, or slender. In 1977 Berlusconi was only a businessman however, he did not enter politics till 1994. In the 1970s/1980s there was a wave of kidnappings of wealthy people in Northwestern Italy by ‘cells’ of the Calabrian Mafia (‘Ndrangheta) which used the ransom money to finance its criminal activities.
aztwit
so we got mafia in the White House
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