Italian pop singers who glamorise the bling and bloody violence of mafia gangsters face three years in prison under new laws that are being pushed by members of Giorgia Meloni’s coalition government.

Maybe he kneaded the dough. A reputed Italian Mafia hitman known for dissolving his victims in acid was finally nabbed after 16 years on the lam — slinging pizza pies at a French restaurant.

Hundreds of alleged mobsters were being sentenced on Monday by an Italian court, the culmination of a historic, nearly three-year trial against Calabria’s notorious ‘Ndrangheta mafia.

Italian Judge Roberto Di Bella launched “Free to Choose” in 2012, which places the children of jailed mobsters with foster families to keep them from inhereting a life of crime.

While mafia stories aren’t necessarily completely absent from anime, and crime-focused stories aren’t in short supply either, a story focused on the Italian-American mafia of the 1930s is very ...