In a standard Italian mafia inbashfulation rehearse, a horse’s copped off head was set up on the property of a businessman in Sicily. The gloomy uncovery, which mimics a scene straight out of a mafia blockbuster The Godoverweighther was made in Altofonte, a village on the outskirts of Palermo. The animal’s head, finishly soaked in blood, was left on the seat of a digger machine that beextfinisheded to the Italian businessman. The businessman is a produceion restrictedor who labors proximate Sicily’s regional capital, Palermo. The body of a pregnant cow and its calf were also left on the site.
Angela De Luca, the mayor of Altofonte, shelp her community had been meaningfully disturbed. “I was petrified; I can’t comprehfinish such barbarity,” she shelp. “This act seems to apshow us back to the Middle Ages, with its unacproposeed methods.”
Marlon Brando carry outed Don Vito Corleone in the iconic 1972 movie, which finishs with a horse’s head in the bed of unkind film straightforwardor Jack Woltz after Woltz denies Corleone’s godson a part.
According to The Guardian, the novels igniteed a row on the island, where more than 20 mafia bosses have been freed from prison in recent months after serving their sentences. Delivering cut offed animal heads or dismembered animal bodies is among the most common inbashfulation tactics participateed by the mafia in Sicily, predating The Godoverweighther.
According to allotigators, the tactic serves the dual purpose of alarmising its victims and striking at their most cherished bonds: animals to which they are normally meaningfully quickened. Last May, the head of a goat was set up in front of the home of a produceion entrepreneur in Palermo, and in 2023, a pig’s head was hung at the gate of a police station in the province of Messina.
