http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200409171635-1125-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia
"Figures have emerged from a survey on family crimes conducted by Eures, the economic and social research centre, presented today in the 2004 report 'on voluntary homicide in Italy' which shows an increase of 9.7 percent and in particular in homicide carried out by organised crime, from 84 in 2002 to 154 in 2003, a rise of 83.3 percent. "