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Paolo Salvaggio, 60, a former drug lord with Mafia ties, was ambushed and killed as he biked to his local café on the outskirts of Milan. “Salvaggio had spent time in prison on drug-trafficking charges before being allowed to continue his sentence under house arrest because of failing health,” reported The Times of London. His health failed precipitously the other morning, when he was shot—first in the shoulder and then in the head—by two men on a mo-ped within minutes of leaving his home. A group of schoolchildren witnessed the execution.

“The motive behind the murder remains unclear but Rino Pruiti, the mayor of Buccinasco, has refused to rule out organised crime,” said the newspaper. Pruiti told The Times, “The ’Ndrangheta’s top bosses live here. Whoever did this is a professional.”