Actor in Mafia film 'Gomorrah' arrested - for 'being part of the Mafia'

Art mirroring life?: Actor Bernardino Terracciano is arrested on suspicion of links to the Mafia An actor who played a Godfather in a new smash Mafia movie is among seven people arrested in a police crackdown. Bernardino Terracciano, 53, plays a boss in 'Gomorrah', a hard-hitting blockbuster on the Naples Mafia known as the Camorra, released this week in Britain. He was seized over the weekend on suspicion of extorting protection money and having ties to the Casalesi clan, part of the Camorra mafia. The latest arrests came a month after six Africans were gunned down outside a clothes shop in Castel Volturno near Naples by the ruthless Casalesi clan. Terracciano, who also played a mobster in another film called The Embalmer, was held after fellow gangster Oreste Spagnuolo, turned supergrass. In the film he plays a boss called... [read full story]