Facebook Mafia Wars The Real Deal

Facebook Mafia Wars The Real Deal (Facts about Real Mafia Wars)

The game Mafia Wars is a fun and almost addictive game, it's by far my favorite game to play online. The idea is violent conflict between criminal organizations, but what about the real mafia wars in the 20th century?

The First Mafia War was the first high-profile conflict between Mafia clans in post-war Italy (the Sicilian Mafia has a long history of violent rivalries).

In December 1962 some heroin went missing from a shipment to America. When the Sicilian Mafia Commission could not decide who was to blame, one of the clans involved - the La Barbera
clan - took matters into its own hands. They murdered a mafioso from the Greco clan whom they suspected of stealing the heroin, triggering a war in which many non-mafiosi would be killed in
the crossfire. In April 1963, several bystanders were wounded during a shootout in Palermo. In May, Angelo La Barbera survived a murder attempt in Milan. In June, six military officers and a policeman in Ciaculli were killed while trying to dispose of a car bomb.

The fact that the conflict spread outside Sicily and claimed innocent lives provoked national outrage and a crackdown in which nearly 2,000 arrests were made. Mafia activity fell as clans disbanded and mafiosi went into hiding. 117 suspects were put on trial in 1968, but most were acquitted or received light sentences.

Our online gaming is, of course, not meant to be disrespectful to people who lost their lives due to organized crime, but it's impossible to deny that there is something attractive to the 'mafioso' lifestyle.