Shocking Mob Funeral: ‘You Conquered Rome, Now You’ll Conquer Paradise’

It was a funeral like no other: flowers thrown from a hovering helicopter, horse drawn carriages and “Godfather’ songs blaring from speakers.  You would have thought it was a wedding.

Mourners were left horrified at the funeral of Italian mobster Vittorio Casamonica, 65, a marginal member of the local Casamonica family.  Now the Mayor of Rome, where the observances took place, wants to know how this could have happened.

Mayor Ignazio Marino tweeted that it is “intolerable that funerals are tools of the living to send mafia messages.”

Hundreds of mourners turned out while banners on the San Giovanni Bosco church called Casamonica the “King of Rome” and proclaimed: “You conquered Rome, now you’ll conquer paradise.”

The ceremony was captured on live TV.  Afterwards, the parish priest told local media that he could not control what occurred outside the church but insisted the scene was much more subdued inside.

- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com