Mafia accused of running courthouse cafe to eavesdrop on judiciary

By Nick Squires May 6, 2021
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Rome: As a means of keeping tabs on their adversaries in the police and judiciary, it could hardly have been bettered – or more brazen.

An investigation in Italy has found that the mafia controlled a bar inside a courthouse in the southern city of Potenza, the capital of the southern Basilicata region.

As prosecutors and police officers sipped their cappuccini and tucked into cornetti (croissants), they were unknowingly being watched and overheard........
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe...o-eavesdrop-on-judiciary-20210506-p57peu.html
 
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