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The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Caivano

‘Meloni’s response left me stunned’: the Italian priest taking on the mafia

Father Maurizio Patriciello at San Paolo Apostolo church in Caivano, a crime-ridden town on the outskirts of Naples.
Father Maurizio Patriciello at San Paolo Apostolo church in Caivano, a crime-ridden town on the outskirts of Naples. Photograph: Roberto Salomone/The Guardian

Father Maurizio Patriciello is running late. “I’m waiting for my bodyguards,” he says by text message.

He is neither a celebrity nor a politician but a parish priest in Caivano, a desolate, crime-ridden town on the outskirts of Naples. He has been living under police protection ever since a bomb, accompanied by the message “get out of our way”, exploded by the gate of his church.

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