In Sicily, mafiosi crippled people for insurance payments

Members of the Sicilian Mafia cripple drug addicts, alcoholics and other vulnerable people to receive insurance payments.

Police in Sicily say that the gangsters thus received hundreds of thousands of euros, writes The Guardian.

Victims who turned to insurers with injuries, said that they allegedly fell into a car accident.

For participation in the "scheme" for obtaining easy money arrested 11 people. Among the suspects is the nurse of the Palermo clinic. She took an anesthetic from work, which was then given to people by mafiosis before breaking their legs and arms. The mistreatment took place in private homes or warehouses.

After the limbs were broken, people were taken to a hospital, where they took the accomplices of the mafia for them.

According to the head of the operative police unit Palermo Rudolfo Rupert, the mafiosi went to the Palermo railway station and "recruited" there drug addicts, alcoholics, people with mental disorders and just the poor, who acutely needed the money.

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