WHAT IT’S LIKE TO … USE RUGBY TO TAKE ON THE MAFIA
ROWS OF concrete multi-storey buildings emerge from the Sicilian countryside. Shop fronts are barricaded with metal shutters and garbage rests on the pavements where men loiter. Motorists lock their car doors as they drive through a neighbourhood where they would never think of stopping.
This is what Librino looks like on the surface – a place only spoken about when local newspapers report yet another shootout or drug bust. Gang violence and child poverty have even earned it the reputation as the ‘Bronx of Catania’, Sicily’s second largest city.
However, a local initiative to teach
