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What kind of people kill a 3-year-old child to as part of an execution of his grandfather?<\/p>\n

Evidently, the mafia in Italy.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the movie mafia of the Corleones and the Sopranos who have a \u201ccode\u201d and love bambinos. These are cold-blooded killers who kill a baby in a car seat.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis denounced this act. It\u2019s interesting that there are people in high places who feel the Holy Father is already \u201cbeing watched\u201d by the mafia because of\u00a0\u00a0his work<\/a> to reform corruption. I considered whether or not to talk about that. But my experience has been that the light of day is the best disinfectant, and the best preventative.<\/p>\n

From the Irish Times:<\/p>\n

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Pope Francis<\/a>\u00a0has bitterly denounced the\u00a0Calabrian Mafia<\/a>, the \u2018Ndrangheta, following the killing of a three-year-old boy caught up in a Mafia \u201cexecution\u201d in Cassano allo Jonio in\u00a0Calabria<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n

Speaking at his Sunday Angelus, the Pope called on the faithful to pray for Coco Campolongo, burned to death as he sat in a baby seat in his grandfather\u2019s car.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis ferocity against such a small child seems unprecedented in the annals of organised crime,\u201d said the Pontiff. \u201cLet us pray with Coco, who is surely now in heaven with Jesus, for the people who committed this crime so that they might repent and be converted to the Lord\u201d<\/p>\n

Little Coco had the misfortune to be sitting in his baby seat in the back of a\u00a0Fiat<\/a>\u00a0Punto car when mafia killers shot his grandfather, 52-year\u00a0Giuseppe Iannicelli<\/a>\u00a0along with his 27-year-old Moroccan partner, Ibtisssan Tous. Police believe that the car was then immediately burnt in the remote rural zone where it was later discovered by a hunter out for a Sunday shoot.<\/p>\n

When investigators examined the car, they found three bodies with Coco\u2019s grandfather shut in the boot, whilst the Moroccan woman was still in the front passenger seat and the child was still in his baby-seat. Police point to a 50 cent coin left on the roof of the burnt-out car as an \u2018Ndrangheta \u201csignature\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What kind of people kill a 3-year-old child to as part of an execution of his grandfather? Evidently, the mafia in Italy. This isn\u2019t the movie mafia of the Corleones and the Sopranos who have a \u201ccode\u201d and love bambinos. These are cold-blooded killers who kill a baby in a car seat. 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