Music: UK media, Dua Lipa’s wedding in mafia strongholds

Rome, 6 June (LaPresse) – The wedding celebrations of Dua Lipa and Callum Turner in Sicily have sparked a flurry of reports in some British media, which have drawn parallels between the venues and the Cosa Nostra. ‘The former hideout of the Sicilian Mafia is hosting the wedding of the year’s most famous couple,’ writes The Telegraph. The reference is to the town of Bagheria, which the British newspaper describes as part of the ‘Triangle of Death’ – ‘a cluster of towns where Mafia members used to torture and kill their rivals in an abandoned nail factory, before dissolving the bodies in acid’. The couple’s reception is scheduled to take place at Villa Valguarnera in Bagheria, where guests of the calibre of Sir Elton John and Donatella Versace are expected. The Telegraph writes that it will be “very different” from when Bagheria was “synonymous with Mafia brutality” because “since then the authorities have stepped up the fight against organised crime”, but adds that “not far from where the celebrities will gather lies an abandoned factory that for years was used as a ‘Mafia death camp’, run by the fugitive Cosa Nostra boss Bernardo Provenzano‘. The Sun is no less sensational, choosing the headline “Sun, sea and sopranos” whilst discussing the ’brutal past of the wedding island beloved by stars such as Dua Lipa". The tabloid includes several photos depicting the capture of Giovanni Brusca and the Capaci massacre.