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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Shahana Yasmin

Sicilian businessman receives horse’s head as Godfather-style mafia warning

Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972) - (Paramount Pictures)

A severed horse’s head was found on the property of a Sicilian businessman, an act that local authorities are attributing to a mafia intimidation practice.

The animal’s bloody head was left on the seat of a digger that belonged to the businessman, who is a construction contractor in Altofonte near Sicily’s regional capital Palermo. The body of a pregnant cow and its calf were also left on the site.

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