Politics · Italy · 10 hrs ago
Termini Imerese blocks neighborhood concert featuring Mauro Nardi
Termini Imerese, a city in Sicily near Palermo, will not host a neighborhood festival concert featuring Neapolitan singer Mauro Nardi.
Mayor Maria Terranova denied the event permit and municipal support for the association organizing the festival, which was planned for Oct.
17.
Terranova said Nardi’s public comments about performing at private parties attended by Cosa Nostra figures and members of the Casamonica family made his participation unacceptable.
Nardi described those performances in a 2019 documentary and said the people who hired him treated him as a friend.
The mayor said the decision reflected the city’s opposition to the mafia and its responsibility for activities linked to the municipality.
The festival cannot go ahead as proposed, with Nardi on its program.
The story also notes a similar decision in Marsala, where a mayor refused a venue for a concert by singer Daniele De Martino.
Termini Imerese Mayor Maria Terranova denied authorization for a neighborhood festival featuring singer Mauro Nardi.
The municipality also refused to sponsor the event, which was planned for 17 October.
Terranova said the decision reflected the town’s commitment to legality and opposition to ambiguity over organized crime.
She cited Nardi’s past statements about performing at private parties attended by members of Cosa Nostra and the Casamonica family.
Nardi made those statements in a 2019 documentary about the Casamonica clan.
- Who
- Mayor Maria Terranova denied authorization for a festival featuring singer Mauro Nardi.
- What
- The municipality blocked the event and denied it municipal sponsorship.
- When
- The festival was planned for 17 October; the article was published on 12 October 2026.
- Where
- Termini Imerese, in the Palermo area of Sicily, Italy.
- Why
- Terranova cited Nardi’s past statements about performing for people linked to organized crime.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Nardi spoke about performing at private parties in the documentary Le Mani su Roma – Casamonica, broadcast on Nove.
The association submitted a request to hold the neighborhood festival and proposed its program.
Terranova denied authorization and municipal sponsorship after checking Nardi’s past statements.
The neighborhood festival for San Daniele, including a concert, was planned to take place.
- Municipality
- Termini Imerese
- Mayor
- Maria Terranova
- Singer
- Mauro Nardi
- Planned event date
- 17 October 2026
- Documentary
- Le Mani su Roma – Casamonica, broadcast in 2019
- Decision
- Authorization and municipal sponsorship denied
What people are saying
We are not the Sicily of the Mafia Commission. We are the Sicily of Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino, Peppino Impastato, Rosario Livatino, Father Pino Puglisi, Rocco Chinnici and all the men and women who sacrificed their lives to fight the mafia.
We are their artists.
Sources
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