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    How Cosa Nostra's 'cattle mafia' is destroying Sicily's farmers

    Broken by prosecutors and rivals, the Sicilian mafia has retreated to its rural origins, driving farmers from their lands with grisly intimidation campaigns
    by Lorenzo Tondo in Corleone Oct 14, 2017 3 minutes
    The Napoli sisters observe their fields, which have been damaged by the Sicilian mafia. Photograph: Francesco Bellina/Cesura

    The Napoli sisters keep their entire harvest in a glass jar, resting on a wooden table in the living room. Inside, there are only a dozen stalks of wheat. The rest of the crop – 80,000 kilograms – was destroyed by the Sicilian mafia, determined to force out these three women working in the land of The Godfather.

    For three generations, the Napoli family farmed wheat and hay in , the historic stronghold of Cosa Nostra. Their father, Salvatore, was a hard worker who, after much sacrifice in the fields, managed to send his three daughters

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