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Italy Risks Losing Grip in South With Fear of Looting, Riots
- Poorer regions are feeling strain of shuttered economy
- Sicily mayor warns economic distress could stir up violence
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As Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte fights to hold Italian society together through a crippling nationwide lockdown, the depressed south is turning into a powder keg.