Published: December 24, 2018
Gaspare Giacalone left a six-figure salary to stand for mayor in his hometown. He has no regrets, despite the bullets
Before the mafia shot up his office in a remote village on the western coast of Sicily, Gaspare Giacalone, 48, had been a respected manager at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development in the City of London, managing investments worth billions.
But when he left his job in 2012 to run for mayor of Petrosino, his hometown, and take on the local godfathers, he knew he was swapping his eighth floor office in a grand building near Liverpool Street station for a life far more dangerous.
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