NO PIZZO
Vincenzo Conticello, owner of Antica Focacceria San Francesco sandwich restaurant, poses in front of his property as a security guard, right, watches over him and Carabinieri paramilitary police, left, guard the restaurant, in downtown Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy, on Oct. 5. In a rebellion shaking the Sicilian Mafia to its centuries-old roots, businesses in growing numbers are refusing to submit to demands for protection money called ``pizzo,'' threatening to sap an already weakened crime syndicate of one of its steadiest sources of revenue.
PHOTO: AP
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