Cold Case: Anti-mafia police in Cosenza on Friday arrested two men considered "important figures in organised crime" in the area, in connection with a murder that took place nearly 40 years ago. Mario Pranno, 64, and Francesco Cicero, 59, are suspected of involvement in the November 1981 murder of business owner Santo Nigro, who was killed in his shop. Investigators said Nigro's killing was ordered by the heads of the Perna-Pranno clan of the 'Ndrangheta mafia, for refusing to pay extortion.

Mario Pranno is a historical figure of the organized crime of Cosenza . He was sentenced with a final sentence for the murder of a child, Pasqualino Perri, 11 years old, which took place in a restaurant in Rende in 1978 and for the double murder of the brothers Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeo in 1991. The Bartolomeo were barred in a fishmonger and then buried in Sila. Their bodies have never been found.

Francesco Cicero is the brother of the boss Domenico serving a life sentence, currently detained at 41 bis.