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"Welcome to Giurgiu, the city terrorised by the Gypsy mafia," headlines Romanian daily Evenimentul zilei. The paper highlights the law of silence that reigns on this southern Romanian city following the tragic death of an American youth who played basketball for the local team, the CSŞ Giurgiu. On October 8, Chauncey Hardy was killed in a nightclub, due to a dispute over a woman, by a local hoodlum known as Gypsy Gipsanu.
"Investigators are not saying a word and people speak in fear," notes Evenimentul zilei. The investigation into the assassination revealed "a mafia-like system" composed of politicians, lawyers and civil servants," in a city in which violence is on the rise, the paper says. It further notes that the omerta, or law of silence, observed by the residents of Giurgiu sends the image of a city managed by a network of mafia bosses with access to the local administration and business circles.
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