Italy protests Vienna pub making fun of mob’s dead

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ROME (AP) — Italy has complained to Austrian authorities on Saturday about a Vienna pub selling sandwiches named after Italians slain by Sicilian mobsters.

The foreign ministry said that Italy’s charge d’affaires in Vienna “intervened to sensitize” local authorities, including the city of Vienna and the economy ministry, after a menu of the Don Panino pub has upset Italians in Vienna and public opinion in Italy.

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