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Gangland.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-04
Format: Online - approximately 843 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Gangland.(Bites: brief notes on news and views from around the world)(influence of gangsters on civil society)

Article Excerpt
There is no doubt that questions of law and order become a lot more pressing for sections of the media when gangsters start killing each other in inner city restaurants, rather than on the nature strips of obscure outer suburbs. In Melbourne, the lunchtime crowd at Carlton's La Porcella had their wood-fired pizza spiced up by the shooting (in an alleyway outside) of Andrew Veniamin, a muscular, compact man nicknamed Benjy. Veniamin was possibly responsible for the execution-style murders of up to half a dozen people. He is the twenty-third casualty in a gang war that has been continuing since 1998, when a turf war erupted over the control of amphetamine production in the state. Since that time, Victoria's entire drug squad has been abolished...

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