Thursday, 4:30 PM
Hunt for 'superkiller' Bulger makes Italian newspapers
By Globe Staff
Some Italian newspapers are giving good play to yesterday's announcement by the FBI that fugitive mobster James "Whitey" Bulger may have been sighted in April in the seaside resort town of Taormina.
"Il superkiller cercato dall’FBI visto a Taormina (Superkiller sought by the FBI seen in Taormina)," says the headline on the website of the newspaper La Stampa.
The Corriere Della Serra, one of the country's major newspapers, posted the story on the front page of its website.
The newspaper quotes Salvatore Cilona, a Taormina city official, as saying the sighting of Bulger in town might be good for tourism.
Taormina has been a draw in the past for famous criminals, Cilona said, noting that notorious New York mobster Lucky Luciano was hosted there by a friend in 1962.
