Monday, December 24, 2007

Cement Firm Leaves Sicily to Protest Mafia

Yikes.

An Italian cement firm is pulling out of Sicily in protest at what it says is Mafia extortion.

Italcementi says its subsidiary Calcestruzzi is closing “as a sign of a refusal to submit to, or to show any compliance with” the Mafia.

Twenty-six people work for the firm at seven sites in Sicily.

 

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Posted by Owen at 2328 hrs
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