Café de Paris (Rome)
The Café de Paris was a famous bar on
Incidents
On 16 September 1985, grenades were thrown at the outdoor tables outside the bar, wounding 38 people.[4] The Lebanese-born Palestinian, Ahmed Hossein Abu Sereya, was arrested and charged with the attack.[5][6][7] Sereya, identified as a member of the Abu Nidal Organization, was sentenced to 17 years in prison in 1987.[8]
In 2008, the Italian anti-fraud police announced that the bar had been taken over by 'Ndrangheta crime families from Calabria.[9][10] The bar was in the hands of the Alvaro 'Ndrangheta clan. Antimafia judges from Reggio Calabria seized the premises in July 2009.[11]
The bar re-opened in November 2011 and was managed by the National Agency for the Administration and Allocation of Confiscated Properties (Agenzia nazionale per l'amministrazione e la destinazione dei beni confiscati). It sold products produced by one of Italy's leading anti-Mafia groups
References
- ^ "Battle of the Beach". Time. October 19, 1959.
- ^ "Memoirs shed new light on La Dolce Vita era of drugs, sex and debauchery". The Observer. February 7, 2010.
- ^ a b "Drink to Mafia's bad health at Rome's Dolce Vita cafe" Archived 2012-11-07 at the Wayback Machine, Reuters, December 19, 2011
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ "Palestinian Held in Rome Bombing". The Washington Post. 18 September 1985.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ "Palestinian Charged in Rome Blast". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ "Palestinian sentenced in 1985 grenade attack". UPI. 11 July 1987.
- ^ "Iconic Rome bar 'bought' by Calabrian Mafia", ADN Kronos, November 26, 2008
- ^ (in Italian) "La 'ndrangheta al 'Cafè de Paris', addio al simbolo della Dolce Vita", La Repubblica, November 26, 2008
- ^ (in Italian) "La 'ndrangheta al Café de Paris", La Repubblica, July 22, 2009
- ^ (in Italian) "Café de Paris, nuova vita anti-mafia; nello storico bar i prodotti di Libera", La Repubblica, December 19, 2011