Max Paradiso

Reporter

BBC News

BBC contributor, and freelance reporter. 


The Catturandi

The secret lives of the Mafia hunters

Justice

The Mafia has been part of Sicilian life for generations, and so has the battle by police to arrest its leaders. The elite unit that goes after them is called the Catturandi — from the word meaning “to catch” — one of its officers described the shadowy world in which he works, and how he kept his job hidden from his girlfriend until she recognized his bottom on TV.