Anti-mafia operation against Cosa Nostra in Sicily and Germany, police arrested 46 members of the crime families based in the province of Enna on charges of mafia-type association, drug trafficking, extortions, corruption and illegal possession of weapons; among the arrested the provincial boss Raffaele Bevilacqua and public officials
Giuseppe Emilio Bevilacqua was located and captured in Germany thanks to the support of the Bka and the German police, with the operational coordination of the European police agency Europol.
The boss Raffaele Bevilacqua was already convicted in the so-called "Leopard" trial, which between the end of the 1980s and In the early 2000s he was not only a member of the board of directors of the Democrazia Cristiana, DC, and in very close relations with Salvo Lima, but also at the top of the Cosa Nostra ennese by direct investiture of Bernardo Provenzano.