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omicidio de mauro, via al processo

(AGI) - Palermo, 4 apr. - "Finalmente siamo giunti all'apertura di questo dibattimento, finalmente ci siamo. Nel rappresentare qui l'accusa provo orgoglio e emozione ma anche amarezza e malinconia": Ha esordito cosi' il Publico ministero Antonio Ingroia nel prendere la parola per il suo intervento iniziale al processo per il sequestro e l'uccisione del giornalista Mauro De Mauro, avvenuto il 16 settembre del 1970. "Provo amarezza e malinconica - ha proseguito Ingrioia - perche' sfogliando le carte ingiallite di questo processo vedo che tanti testi non sono piu' tra noi, come la figlia di De Mauro, Jiunia, il vicequestore Boris Giuliano e il generale Calo Alberto Dalla Chiesa che con passione indagarono su questa vicenda, ma anche intellettuali come Leonardo Sciascia". Ma l'amarezza, ha detto ancora Ingroia, "e' soprattutto quella di essere arrivati troppo tardi, come dimostra il fatto che abbiamo un solo imputato, Toto' Riina". Gli altri boss individuati dall'accusa come responsabili della morte di De Mauro sono infatti tutti deceduti. "Ma la giustizia - ha considerato Ingroia - arriva sempre, anche 40 anni dopo nel caso di un omicidio di mafia che e' un reato imprescrittibile, e dunque imperdonabile".
041054 APR 06

An old list by Carmelo, anyone got any opinions?

Posted by Carmelo on March 06, 2005 at 16:50:20:


FU= Fugitive; IP= Imprisoned; the other all free

COSA NOSTRA

Provincia di Palermo


Famiglie Capi famiglia/mandamento

Tommaso Natale Salvatore Lo Piccolo (FU) – capo mandamento
San Lorenzo Mariano Tullio Troia (IP)/Antonino Lo Bianco
Partanna Mondello Salvatore Graziano
Carini Antonino Pipitone (IP)/Gianbattista Pipitone

Resuttana Francesco Madonia (IP)/Diego Madonia – capo mandamento
Acquasanta Vincenzo Galatolo (IP)/Angelo Galatolo
Arenella Gaetano Scotto (FU)

Passo di Rigano Domenico Buscemi (FU) – capo mandamento
Boccadifalco Vincenzo Marcianò
Uditore Giovanni Sansone

Malaspina Antonino Cinà – capo mandamento
Noce Giusto Sciarabba
Altarello di Baida Cosimo Vitale

Palermo centro Agostino Badalamenti – capo mandamento
Porta Nuova Vincenzo Buccafusca
Borgo Vecchio Francesco Paolo Romano

Pagliarelli Giovanni Motisi (FU) – capo mandamento
Borgo Molara Vincenzo Cascino (FU)
Mezzomonreale Pietro Badagliacca

Santa Maria di Gesù Salvatore Fileccia (FU) – capo mandamento
Villagrazia Gioacchino Capizzi (FU)
Guadagna Giuseppe Greco (FU)

Ciaculli Francesco La Rosa (FU) – capo mandamento
Roccella Giuseppe Guttadauro (IP)/Lorenzo Di Fede
Brancaccio Giovanni Lo Cascio
Corso dei Mille Lorenzo Tinnirello

Partinico Giuseppe Gelardi (FU) – capo mandamento
Borgetto Salvatore Prainito (FU)
Montelepre Andrea Impastato
Cinisi Vito Palazzolo
Terrasini Salvatore D’Anna
Giardinello ?

Corleone Bernardo Provenzano (FU) – capo mandamento/provincia
Prizzi Tommaso Cannella
Castronuovo di Sicilia Salvatore Gentile
Bisacquino ?
Campofiorito ?

Altofonte Domenico Raccuglia (FU) – capo mandamento
San Giuseppe Jato Bernardo Bommarito
Camporeale Antonino Sciortino
San Cipirello Giuseppe Agrigento (IP)/Salvatore Agrigento
Piana degli Albanesi Natale Camarda

Misilmeri Pietro Calvo (FU) – capo mandamento
Belmonte Mezzagno Benedetto Spera (IP)/Paolo Spera
Bolognetta Giuseppe Bono
Baucina Giuseppe Pinello
Ciminna Antonino Episcopo

Bagheria Leonardo Greco – capo mandamento
Casteldaccia ?
Altavilla Milicia ?
Santa Flavia ?

Villabate Francesco Di Fresco (FU) – capo mandamento
Ficarazzi Giovanni Mezzatesta
Acqua dei Corsari ?

Trabia Domenico Rancadore (FU) – capo mandamento
Caccamo Giuseppe Panzeca
Termini Imerese Santo Balsamo
Cerda Rosolino Rizzo (IP)/Giuseppe Rizzo
Montemaggiore Belsito Giovanni Gullo
Vicari Salvatore Umina
Lercara Friddi ?

San Mauro Castelverde Giuseppe Farinella (IP)/Francesco Bonomo – capo mandamento
Gangi Domenico Virga
Polizzi Generosa Antonio Maranto
Petralia Sottana Carmelo Fazio
Lascari Samuele Schittino


Provincia di Trapani

Alcamo Ignazio Melodia – capo mandamento
Castellammare del Golfo Mariano Asaro
Calatafimi ?

Trapani Vincenzo Virga (IP)/Pietro Virga – capo mandamento
Paceco Francesco Pace
Valderice ?

Mazara del Vallo Mariano Agate (IP)/Vito Mangiaracina – capo mandamento
Marsala Natale Bonafede (IP)/Leonardo Bonafede
Salemi Salvatore Miceli (FU)
Vita Salvatore Crimi
Santa Ninfa Vincenzo Di Maria

Castelvetrano Matteo Messina Denaro (FU) – capo mandamento/provincia
Partanna Vincenzo Pandolfo (FU)
Campobello di Mazara Nunzio Spezia (IP)/Vincenzo Spezia
Gibellina Vincenzo Furnari

Provincia di Agrigento

Sambuca di Sicilia Leo Sutera – capo mandamento
Sciacca Carmelo Bono
Santa Margherita Belice Pietro Campo
Caltabellotta ?
Menfi ?

Porto Empedocle Luigi Putrone (FU) – capo mandamento
Realmonte Joseph Focoso (FU)
Siculiana Gerlando Caruana
Agrigento Franco Cacciatore

Cianciana Andrea Montalbano – capomandamento
Cattolica Eraclea Domenico Terrasi
Burgio Giovanni Maniscalco
Ribera ?

Alessandria della Rocca ?
Santo Stefano Quisquina ?
Bivona ?

Santa Elisabetta Salvatore Fragapane (IP)/Stefano Fragapane – capo mandamento
Raffadali Stefano Mangione
Cammarata Raffaele Faldetta
Casteltermini ?

Racalmuto Maurizio Di Gati (FU) – capo mandamento/provincia
Canicattì Calogero Di Caro
Grotte Valentino Licata (IP)/Vincenzo Licata
Aragona ?

Favara Giuseppe Nobile – capo mandamento
Palma di Montechiaro Salvatore Pace
Camastra ?
Naro ?

Campobello di Licata Giuseppe Falsone (FU) – capo mandamento
Ravanusa ?
Licata ?


Provincia di Caltanissetta

Campofranco Domenico Vaccaro (IP)/Angelo Schillaci – capo mandamento/provincia
Mussomeli Stefano Misuraca
Serradifalco Salvatore Di Francesco

Vallelunga Giuseppe Madonia (IP)/Antonio Tusa – capo mandamento
San Cataldo Cataldo Terminio
Caltanissetta Domenico Magliocco (FU)
Villalba ?

Riesi Francesco Cammarata – capo mandamento
Mazzarino Salvatore Siciliano (FU)
Sommatino Vincenzo La Quatra
Delia ?

Gela Daniele Emmanuello (FU) – capo mandamento
Niscemi Giuseppe Arcerito
Butera ?

Provincia di Enna

Barrafranca Raffaele Bevilacqua – capo mandamento/provincia
Pietraperzia Gaetano Leonardo
Piazza Armerina Santo Balsamo
Valguarnera ?

Enna Giovanni Mattiolo – capo mandamento
Leonforte Giacomo Sollima
Villarosa ?
Nicosia ?

Regalbuto Vincenzo Militello – capo mandamento
Catenanuova Antonio Mavica
Agira Giovanni Galletta
Troina ?

Provincia di Catania

Santapaola Benedetto Santapaola (IP)/Umberto Di Fazio (FU) – capo mandamento/provincia
Mazzei Santo Mazzei (IP)/Sebastiano Mazzei (FU)
Cappello Salvatore Cappello (IP)/Angelo Guzzetta
Sciuto Giuseppe Sciuto (IP)/Filippo Marchì
Laudani Sebastiano Laudani (IP)/Salvatore Rapisarda
Caltagirone Gesualdo La Rocca
Calatabiano Antonino Cintorino
Scordia Giuseppe Di Salvo (FU)

Provincia di Messina

Mistretta Sebastiano Rampulla – capo mandamento
Barcellona Giuseppe Gullotti (IP)/Salvatore Di Salvo
Villafranca Tirrena Santo Sfameni
Tortorici Cesare Bontempo Scavo (IP)/Vincenzo Bontempo Scavo
Milazzo Michele Ilacqua
Batana Sebastiano Conti Taguali
Mazzarà Sant’Andrea Giovanni Sindoni
North Messina Luigi Galli (IP)/Giuseppe Gatto
Middle Messina Giuseppe Cambria
South Messina Giacomo Spartà
Mangialupi Pietro Sturniolo


Provincia di Siracusa/Ragusa

Siracusa Michele Midolo – capo mandamento
Lentini Sebastiano Nardo (IP)/Carmelo Nardo
Solarino Concetto Aparo
Noto Antonino Trigila (IP)/Salvatore Trigila
Vittoria Carmelo Dominante (IP)/Gaetano Dominante
Scicli Pietro Ruggieri
Comiso Francesco Nigito
Ragusa Salvatore Roccasalva
Francofonte ?

did i just look aound again at my files recently on :

Palma di Montechiaro:

Palma di Montechiaro
Old capomafia and corleonesi Calogero Sambito



Leonardo Messina.( pag.205), la cui deposizione viene giudicata dalla Corte di primo grado come assai rilevante.

Il Messina, anzitutto, ha illustrato con dovizie di particolari, secondo quanto riporta la sentenza, le ragioni della sua approfondita conoscenza degli uomini di “Cosa Nostra” agrigentina. Il collaboratore ha dichiarato che nel 1988 il rappresentante della provincia di Agrigento era Giuseppe Di Caro e quello della provincia nissena Giuseppe Madonia. Egli ha illustrato cause e circostanze della sua approfondita amicizia con Gioacchino Ribisi, uomo d’onore di Palma di Montechiaro e della sua conoscenza di numerosi fratelli di quest’ultimo, tra cui Rosario, rappresentante per un periodo della famiglia di Palma. Il Messina ha illustrato cause e sviluppi della spaccatura di quella famiglia, quella di Palma, in due fazioni contrapposte: da una parte il gruppo facente capo ai Ribisi, gli Allegro, Cocò Brancato e, dall’altra, Angelo Bordino, Pasquale Savaia ed altri. Ha ricordato che Pietro Ribisi non aveva potuto assumere la qualita’ di uomo d’onore per la regola vigente in “Cosa Nostra” per cui non potevano far parte dell’organizzazione più di due fratelli, tant’è che la presenza di Rosario, Ignazio e Gioacchino costituiva già una deroga. Ma Pietro Ribisi aveva peraltro avuto un ruolo operativo nelle attivita’ criminose della famiglia agrigentina e con Montagna Michele, con Coco Brancato, costituiva il braccio armato di Giuseppe Di Caro.

Il collaboratore ha raccontato di avere partecipato ad alcuni episodi delittuosi con i Ribisi e che Gioacchino gli aveva confidato di avere commesso circa centocinquanta omicidi e che era sua abitudine precostituirsi un alibi in occasione di ogni delitto.






14 SETTEMBRE 195

Ucciso nei pressi di Palma di Montechiaro, segretario provinciale della D.C.., Apparteneva ad una famiglia di Campobello di Licata, notoriosamente mafiosa. Suo padre che era considerato il capo mafia della zona, fu ucciso per mano di un tale Gaetano Vella, finito poi in un manicomio.





Palma di Montechiaro- cosca Ribisi Allegro
The 7 brothers Gioacchino Ribisi (killed 6 august 1989), Carmelo and Rosario Ribisi (both killed 5 october 1989), Pietro Ribisi (born 1951), Calogero Ribisi and Ignazio Ribisi and their sister Grazia Ribisi, nephew Nicolo Ribisi
Brothers Rosario Allegro (killed 1 november 1989 and his son is Pietro Allegro who was killed 20 March 1991), Felice Allegro, their sister Paola Allegro married with Adolfo Croce (killed) and their son is Ignazio Croce.


Palma di Montechiaro
Eugenio Serafini, Bordini brothers in Germany, stidde Paolo Amico (born 1967), Avarello, Gaetano Puzzangaro, giuseppe Croce Benvenuto, Corleonesi Di Vincenzo and his men Schembri,Incardona and Calafato.


Palma di Montechiaro -Parla cosca
Salvatore Parla


Palma di Montechiaro family Pace
Brothers Salvatore “Totuccio” Pace and Domenico Pace


Palma di Montechiaro family Calafato
brothers Giovanni Calafato and Salvatore Calafato (Di Vincenzo men?)


Palma di Montechiaro family Schembri
brothers Ignazio Schembri, Rosario and Gioacchino Schembri and their sister Carmela Schembri who is married with Giuseppe Crapanzano (killed 14 Januari 1993 in Mannheim). (Di Vincenzo men?)


Palma di Montechiaro (Ag) capomafia Calogero Sambito (49)
In the beginning of the 80ties Calogero Sambito became the boss of Palma di Montechiaro and soon everybody in town pays him pizzo (extortion money) and he contacted Riina and Giuseppe Madonia. The Corleonesi wanted because of the war in Palermo to move their drugsactivities, and they move them to Palma and nearby Licata and Gela. Sambito also starts into the heroin business and puts a branch next to Calo’s Magliana gang in Rome, who start to launder money with the clubs Jackie O and La Clef. Also men from Palma di Montechiaro move to Germany and start to deal in weapons and drugs. The heroin they got via Milan after which they sold it from pizzerias. Also they buy weapons which they smuggle to Sicily for use in the wars.


Murdercase Palma di Montechiaro (Ag) capomafia Calogero Sambito (49)
4 June 1984 the corleonesi boss Calogero Sambito (born 1935) was killed by his men the 7 Ribisi brothers who become the new bosses. He had been close with Colletti and Pitruzzella.

4 GIUGNO 1984

Sambito Calogero, 1935, Ucciso sotto casa con 10 colpi di pistola. Legato a Colletti e Pitruzzella. La sua uccisione inserito in un più ampio contesto di lotta mafiosa, creò una ben determinata faida interna a Palma di Montechiaro tendente all’ acquisizione del posto di comando fino a quel momento occupato dallo stesso senza dubbi di sorta. Boss di prima grandezza “in loco” gregario fidato dell’alta mafia del favarese Pitruzzella, aveva creato quell’ equilibrio che aveva fatto del paese un’ oasi di pace: nessun delitto mafioso in dieci anni, una certa protezione per tutti. Si paga il pizzo e si vive d’ amore e d’ accordo. Le banche prosperano, la gente sta tranquilla. Guai però a ribellarsi. E pochi alzano la cresta. Chi lo fa viene subito zittito. Un’ esempio per tutti: il titolare di una fabrichetta di mattoni, Puzzangaro, in un anno, tra l’ 83 e l’ 84 subisce una ventina di attentati, una cifra record. Ma la mafia a Palma si sostiene con la ritorsione e la tangente. Sambito forte del prestigio dell’ intimidazione, piazza i suoi uomini nei vigneti e in altre colture. Con i picciotti fidati gli attentati sono scongiurati. *

Germany, diaspora Palma di Montechiaro
In july 1986 in Ludwigshafen Salvatore Sortino was shot to death, his brother Carmelo was severely wounded with a shot through the head. Salvatore's wife is the niece of Carmelina Sortina who is married to Gaetano Micalizzi the driver of the boss Gaetano Zucchero who police suspect to live in Mannheim. Later Micalizzi was shot to death in Kaiserslautern.


21 SETTEMBRE 1986 Prima strage di Porto Empedocle (Cosa Nostra castiga Stiddari)nella quale furono massacrate nel pieno centro cittadino 6 persone; i killer arrivarono da palma di montechiaro. **


10 DICEMBRE 1986
Vizzini Antonio, 1936, ucciso a colpi di pistola e lupara dentro il negozio di ceramiche. Fratello di Girolamo, capo mafia.


15 GENNAIO 1987
Perrera Vincenzo, 1937, ucciso mentre era con Girolamo Vizzini. Era armato. Nell’agguato ferite tre persone. Vizzini illeso. *


13 LUGLIO 1987
Napoli Rosario, 1953, ucciso davanti al bar. Figlio di Croce. *


20 SETTEMBRE 1987
Nucera Giovanni, 1934, ucciso da killer che avevano bussato alla sua porta. *


1 OTTOBRE 1987
Castronovo Salvatore, 1959 ucciso davanti casa. *


30 NOVEMBRE 1987
Milano Paolo, 30 anni, benzinaio, ucciso sotto casa. *


5 GENNAIO 1988
Rumè Giuseppe, 27 anni. *



Palma di Montechiaro (Ag)
4 June 1988 Giuseppe Cammalleri, the former mayor of Palma, gets wounded in an ambush.


24 SETTEMBRE 1988
Morgana Salvatore, 27 anni, luparate. *



Il 5 agosto 1998 la Corte di Assise di Caltanissetta dichiarava Riina Salvatore, Madonia Francesco, Ribisi Pietro, i primi due in qualità di mandanti, il terzo quale esecutore materiale in concorso con Montagna Michele, Brancato Nicola, Di Caro Giuseppe, nel frattempo deceduti, responsabili del duplice omicidio del Giudice Antonino Saetta e del figlio Stefano, fatto delittuoso commesso con premeditazione in territorio di Caltanissetta alle 22.40 del 25 settembre 1988.

Canicatti (Agrigento province), Judge Saetta gets murdered on orders of La Cupola
25 September 1988 judge Antonino Saetta (66) and his mentally handicapped son Stefano (35) are driven from the road near Canicatti in their car and killed by Michele Montana and Pietro Ribisi, one of the Ribisi brothers from Palma di Montechiaro. Saetta got killed at the orders of la Cupola (Salvatore Riina and Francesco Madonia got in first grade lifesentences for ordering the murder) who used the Ribisi brothers. The murder had been ordered because Saetta had given a lifesentence to Madonia’s son for the murder of carabinieri captain Basile in Monreale and would presidnet the high court appeal of the first maxi Trial. The Ribisi brothers get into war with the Di Vincenzo cosca who get from Riina the order to wipe out the Ribisi brothers because they had murdered their boss Sambito a corleonesi.


10 GENNAIO 1989
Bordino Giuseppe, 52 anni, ucciso sotto casa. *


15 APRILE 1989
Rinaldi Francesco ?????, 47 anni. *


6 MAGGIO 1989
Vaccaro Francesco, 42 anni, ucciso in campagna. *


13 MAGGIO 1989
Brancato Nicolò, 35 anni, ucciso sotto casa. *

Palma di Montechiaro murdercase Nicolo Brancato
In may 1988 in Palma Nicolo Brancato was killed, his bosses were the Ribisi brothers. The Ribisi brothers are at war with the Di Vincenzo cosca (followers of Sambito) and the Stidde.


1 GIUGNO 1989
Amico Pietro, ?????, 51 anni, bidello. *


Palma di Montechiaro (Ag) boss Gioacchino Ribisi killed
6 August 1989 in Palma the boss Gioacchino Ribisi (32) and his nephew Girolamo (Calogero?) Castronovo (23) get killed in a pizzeria by Paolo Amico and Domenico Pace.


Palma di Montechiaro (Ag)
In september 1989 the Ribisi brothers hit back when they ambush Carlo Savaia, Gaetano Puzzanghero, Domenico and Salvatore Pace but they escape.


Palma di Montechiaro (Ag), brothers Carmelo and Rosario Ribisi killed
5 October 1989 Gioacchino's brothers Carmelo and Rosario Ribisi get killed by Paolo Amico when the wounded Rosario lays in hospital. Their trustee is Michele Montana who gets killed and Pietro , Calogero and Ignazio Ribisi hide. Their cosca is taken over by Rosario Allegro (53). Amico's uncle Paolo Scarna is the mayor of Palma.

Santo Rinallo (Canicattì Ag, 31/08/1960), ergastolo per il duplice omicidio dei fratelli Rosario e Carmelo Ribisi, maturato nella guerra di mafia tra stiddari e famiglie di Cosa Nostra di Palma di Montechiaro.

Palma di Montechiaro (Ag) boss Rosario Allegro killed
Rosario Allegro gets killed 1 november 1989 with Traspadano Anzalone and the killers take with them a pistol they stole at the murderscene. The Stidde wiped out the Ribisi brothers at the orders of Giuseppe Di Caro the boss of Canicatti and they go into drugs.

l pubblico ministero presso la Direzione distrettuale antimafia di Palermo, Claudio Siragusa, ha chiesto la condanna all’ergastolo dei fratelli Pietro e Ignazio Ribisi, di Palma di Montechiaro, imputati dell’omicidio di Pietro Giro, l’autista di Palma ucciso il 28 dicembre del 1989 a Palermo. Secondo l’accusa, sostenuta anche dalle dichiarazioni del pentito Nino Giuffrè, il delitto sarebbe stato commissionato da Totò Riina su richiesta dei fratelli Ribisi perchè Pietro Giro era cugino dello stiddaro palmese Giovanni Calafato.


26 GENNAIO 1990
Due giovani scompaiono da Palma.


Agrigento murdercase judge Livatino
21 September 1990 judge Angelo Rosario Livatino (37) gets killed by Paolo Amico, Domenico Pace, Giuseppe Avarello (25), Giuseppe Croce Benvenuto (20) and Gaetano Puzzangaro (22). They are the Stidde bosses in Palma di Montechiaro. The killers leave a weapon that was stolen when some time before Allegro and Anzalone were killed and a motorbike that was used at the bodged ambush at Mallia.


21 SETTEMBRE 1990
Ucciso il giudice Livatino, ergastoli inflitti a Paolo Amico, Domenico Pace, Gaetano Puzzangaro, Salvatore Calafato, Antonio Gallea???? Tredici anni sono stati dati a Croce Benvenuto e Giovanni Calafato, entrambi collaboratori di giustizia.


Palma di Montechiaro (Ag)
20 March 1991 Rosario's son Pietro Allegro (19) gets killed by the Stidari.


Palma di Montechiaro (Ag) murdercases Allegro and Lombardo
2 may 1991 Pietro's nephew Carmelo Allegro (29) and Giovanni Lombardo (35) get killed by the Corleonesi.


Rome
24 October 1991 police confiscated the Rome nightclubs Jackie O and La Clef because they were fronts for the mafia to launder money. Police arrested several members from the cosca from Palma di Montechiaro of which were the most important Eugenio Serafini and the brothers Salvatore (34) and Francesco Nicitra.


Palma di Montechiaro (Ag)
31 december 1991 in Palma there is an ambush and Felice Allegro (61) and Giuseppe (Salvatore?? Salvato??) Alotto (30) get killed, Allegro's nephew Ignazio (39) and his son Felice (9), their nephews Angelo (34) and gioacchino Castronovo (38), Pasquale Bordino (27), Calogero Martinello (37) and Francesco Vinci get wounded. A bodyguard kills Salvatore Caniolo (20) of the Ianni-Iocolano cosca from the neighbour province town Gela. The other killers are Gioacchino Schembri (32), Gioacchino Calafato, Gaspare and Ignazio Incardona and they go to Germany. 1 Januari 1992 the minor Orazio from Gela and others burst into a bar in Palma di Montechiaro and after the shooting there are 3 dead man.


Palma di Montechiaro murdercase Croce (Agrigento province)
19 Januari 1992 Onolfo Croce (71) get killed by stidde, his wife Paola Allegro (72) gets severely wounded, she is the sister of Felice and Rosario, and Ignazio was their son.


4 APRILE 1992
Ucciso il maresciallo dei carabinieri Giuliano Guazzelli che stava facendo rientro a casa, a Menfi.Alla fine del viadotto morandivenne bloccato e divenne bersaglio di un Kalashnicov. Dopo il delitto venne celebrato un processo a carico di stiddari palmesi. **


Police commissionair Guazzelli gets killed (Agrigento province)
4 April 1992 commissionair Giuliano Guazzelli get killed by the killers from the town Palma Diego Provenzani and Salvatore Di Caro and the from Canicatti coming killers Gioacchino Ri Rocco and Ignazio Alotto, and Massimiliano Migliore (21). The murderweapon for Guazzelli was delivered to the killers by Gaetano Amodeo (born in porto Empedocle and member of the Cattolica Eraclea clan).


Mannheim (Germany) arrests
In april 1992 Gioacchino Schembri, Gioacchino Calafato, Gaspare and Ignazio Incardona get arrested in Mannheim. When police came to arrest them, one of them shot through the door because he thought it were their enemies from sicily, just before he had been shot at by Gaetano Puzzangaro (33).


Palma di Montechiaro (Agrigento province)
15 April 1992 the families Allegro, Calafato, Ribisi and Incardona lose many members to arrests, police arrest 14 under whom Grazia Ribisi (46) a sister of the brothers and Nicolo Ribisi (20) a nephew.


Rome, Magliana
8 May 1992 were for 100 billion lire of cars buildings and other assets confiscated from the Magliana boss Giuseppe De Tommasi (55) and his capos Mario Mangano, Alessio Monselles (49) and Luciano Stramaglia. 10 June was the power of the Magliana group broken with the arrests of Giuseppe De Tommasi (the leader), Eugenio Serafini the owner of "Jackie O" and "La Clef" (he came from Palma di montechiaro), Bruno Pietrangeli (51) owner of Leon D'Oro, Roberto Roberti (29) the son in law of De Tommasi, Pancrazio Bizzoni (53) and Antonio Mirko Koustorim (from Sardinia).


Germany (Palma stidde Puzzangaro)
28 May 1992 Gaetano Puzzangaro (33) was arrested in Germany.


Mannheim (Germany)
14 Januari 1993 in Mannheim Giuseppe Crapanzano (39) gets killed, he was married with Gioacchino's sister Carmela Schembri and was killed by her brothers Ignazio and Rosario. They do it to silence their brother who is a friend of Crapanzano.


Rome, bombattack
15 May 1993 exploded in Rome a bomb when tv presentator Maurizio Costanzo drives by the perpetrators are the in Germany living brothers Matteo and Calogero Bordini the sons of a boss from Palma di Montechiaro. Costanzo had an antimafiaprogram.


11\10\93 CRONACA Convegno su "Legalita' e giustizia" a Palma di Montechiaro.


1993 cattura di Croce Benvenuto, rientrato spontaneamente dal Canada per costituirsi e collaborare con la Magistratura


11 Luglio 1995 Ucciso a Palma di Montechiaro (Ag), il bracciante agricolo Giuseppe Scrofani, cognato dello stiddaro Salvatore Di Caro, ritenuto uno degli assassini del maresciallo dei carabinieri Giuliano Guazzelli.


8 Luglio 1996
Arrestato a Palma di Montechiaro (Ag) il latitante Totuccio Pace, fratello di Domenico, killer del giudice Rosario Livatino. Totuccio Pace, considerato elemento di spicco della Stidda, era ricercato dall'aprile scorso, dopo essere stato scarcerato per decorrenza dei termini. Deve scontare una condanna a 7 anni per associazione mafiosa e detenzione di armi.


Palma di Montechiaro (Agrigento province)
8 July 1996 Totuccio Pace (the brother of the Stidde capo Domenico Pace) gets arrested.


Palma di Montechiaro (Agrigento province)
23 July 1996 Antonio Gallea ( a boss of the Stidde in Canicatti), Salvatore Parla and Salvatore Calafato (Stidde bosses from Palma) and Giuseppe Montanti get arrested for ordering the murder of judge Livatino at the orders of Ferro.


21 settembre 1997 Ucciso a Palma di Montechiaro (Ag) il vigile urbano Giovanni Fazio, forse da pregiudicati che volevano impossessarsi della sua pistola


2 Maggio 1998 Trovato a Palma di Montechiaro (Ag) il cadavere del contadino incensurato Calogero Vinciguerra, ucciso con un colpo di pistola alla testa. 5 Maggio 1998 Chiesta alla Corte d'assise d'appello di Palermo, dal procuratore generale Santi Consolo, l'assoluzione per Gioacchino Di Rocco e Ignazio Alotto, presunti killer del maresciallo dei carabinieri di Agrigento Giuliano Guazzelli, ucciso il 4 aprile 1992. Alcuni collaboratori di giustizia, infatti, hanno negato che l'omicidio fosse stato deciso dalla Stidda di Palma di Montechiaro, a cui i due apparterrebbero, affermando che responsabile sarebbe stata Cosa nostra. Il 18 maggio la Corte accoglierà la richiesta del pm assolvendo anche i due presunti mandanti, Gaetano Puzzangaro e Diego Provenzani. I quattro imputati restano in carcere perché condannati per altri reati.


26 Giugno 1998
Condannati all'ergastolo, dalla Corte d'appello di Caltanissetta, gli stiddari Antonio Callea, Salvatore Calafato, Salvatore Parla e Giuseppe Montanti, accusati di essere i mandanti dell'omicidio del giudice Rosario Livatino, ucciso il 21 settembre 1990. Nel processo di primo grado Parla e Montanti erano stati assolti. Condannati a 13 anni i collaboratori Giovanni Calafato e Giuseppe Croce Benvenuto. Per l'omicidio sono già stati condannati all'ergastolo, con sentenza definitiva, Giovanni Avarello di Canicattì (Ag), Gaetano Puzzanghero e i killer Paolo Amico e Domenico Pace, di Palma di Montechiaro (Ag). I genitori di Livatino hanno rinunciato a costituirsi parte civile in questo processo.


Licata (Agrigento province)
2 April 1999 was in Licata the killed Matteo Lo Giudice from Palma di Montechiaro found.


21 giugno 2000 l'unico fatto di sangue eclatante è stato determinato a Palma di Montechiaro (Agrigento) con l'eccidio del 21 giugno. Il cinquantatreenne Vincenzo Sambito (morto suicida) uccise la moglie Paola Amato di 46 anni, le figlie maggiorenni Rosaria e Marianna e la suocera di 80 anni.


Palma di Montechiaro
22 february 2002 was Rosario Lupo killed in Palma di Montechiaro.


Licata
9 March 2002 was Salvatore Iacopinelli killed near Licata, he was killed with sophisticated weapons of war of the same kind with which had been killed Vincenzo Collura.


Palma di Montechiaro (Agrigento province)
8 July 2004 was in a central bar in Palma di Montechiaro the well known entrepeneur Maurizio Lombardo (29) shot dead. He is the son of Palma’s most important entrepeneur Pietro Lombardo who was linked with members
of the 2 local mafiaclans, those of Crocefisso Napoli and Pietro Ribisi.










ondannato a 20 anni dalla Corte di assise di Liegi (Belgio) Domenico Castellino di Palma di Montechiaro (Ag) a conclusione del processo per l’uccisione (avvenuta nel 1991) dell’ex vice premier ed ex presidente del partito socialista del Belgio André Cools. Castellino, agli arresti domiciliari in Italia per una condanna per traffico di droga, procurò i killer su richiesta di un suo amico, Cosimo Sollazzo detto Simon. Dietro l’omicidio di Colls c’è una storia di tangenti per la fornitura di elicotteri Agusta e la costruzione di un supercannone per Saddam Hussein.

Messina double murdercase:

SICILY: GIACALONE BROTHERS MURDERED IN MAFIA AMBUSH

MESSINA – The brothers Paolo Giacalone, 33, and Carmelo Giacalone, 29, were murdered on April 11th in a mafia ambush in the centre of Messina. At about 2:00 p.m. they were shot to death in front of their own bar by two killers on motorcycle armed with guns, who hit them several times in the head and the body. The Giacalone brothers were linked to the middle Messina “family”, located in Camaro neighbourhood, and led by the reputed boss Carmelo Ventura. The brothers were the owners of a central bar and were very famous in the entire city. Paolo Giacalone was released from prison some months ago.


Paolo e Carmelo Giacalone stavano ristrutturando il proprio bar
I due avevano precedenti penali e affiliazioni con la mafia

Messina, agguato in pieno centro
killer uccidono due fratelli

MESSINA - Agguato mortale in pieno centro di Messina. Vittime i fratelli Paolo e Carmelo Giacalone, rispettivamente 33 e 30 anni.

Secondo una prima ricostruzione, i due, che stavano lavorando alla ristrutturazione di un bar di loro proprietà, la "Caffetteria 2000", intorno alle 13.30 sarebbero stati centrati da numerosi colpi di pistola calibro 7,65 sparati da due killer a bordo di un motorino. I fratelli Giacalone avrebbero anche tentato la fuga, ma inutilmente.

Carmelo è morto sul colpo, mentre il fratello è stato trasportato in gravi condizioni all'ospedale Piemonte, dove è deceduto poco dopo le 14. Sul luogo della sparatoria gli investigatori hanno trovato una calza nera e cinque bossoli.

I fratelli Giacalone avevano precedenti penali. In particolare, Paolo era ritenuto affiliato al clan Ventura di Camaro ed era indagato nelle operazioni antimafia "Mata e Grifone" e "Sole d'autunno". Nel suo passato, anche accuse per rapine in banche e uffici postali.

Corleone (Lionheart)
Corleone lies in the province Palermo and was known for its nearby forest of Ficuzza (the only forest in a wide area), nearest town is Prizzi.


Corleone
During the latter part of 1889, a large number of cattle had been stolen in the neighborhood of Corleone. Giovanni Vella, chief of the Sylvan Guards, had been working on the case and found evidence that the Streva- Morello team was behind the thefts. Later in 1889 Giovanni Vella went home and was shot and killed underway. A neighbour, Anna Di Puma was returning to her house and had noticed 2 men lurking around and she recognized Giuseppe Morello. A couple of minutes later she heared a shot and ran back where she found the dying Vella. She told neighbours what she had seen. Two days later Anna Di Puma was shot in the back and killed, Morello was arrested and charged with the murder of Di Puma. (according to the book the Barrelcase by Flynn).


Corleone, Fratuzzi capomafia Salvatore Cutrera
At the end of the 1880’s the boss of the “fratuzzi” in Corleone was Salvatore Cutrera, his underboss was Giuseppe “Piddu” Battaglia. Members were Mariano Colletti, Giuseppe Ridulfo “Acidduzzu”, Luciano Gagliano “Lo Forte”, Bernardo Terranova, Pasquale Oronato, the brothers Calogero and Mariano Majuri, Gaetano Liggio “Ficateddu” and others.


Corleone, “Fratuzzi” capomafia Giuseppe “Piddu” Battaglia
At the beginning of the 1890’s the boss of the “fratuzzi” in Corleone became capomafia Giuseppe Battaglia, who was adviced by Michelangelo Gennaro, the nephew of former boss Salvatore Cutrera who was his uncle, some years later he was replaced by Luciano Labruzzo and Giuliano Riela as advisor. Members were Francesco Zito, Domenico Di Miceli, Giovanni Cammarata, Francesco Mancuso, Angelo Castro, Angelo Governnali, Angelo and Calogero Gagliano, Bernardo Di Miceli, Giovanni Sciortino, Tommaso Provenzano, Saverio Montalbano, Placido Paternostro, Gaetano Marino, Pietro Majuri, Luciano Crapisi, Stefano Labbruzzo, Biagio Iannazzo, Vincenzo Iannazzo, Giovanni Mancuso, Calogero Majuri, Marco Maggiore, Salvatore Cutrera, Mariano Mancuso, Nicasio Piazza, Calogero Di Palermo, Biagio Paternostro, Rocco Mancuso, Vincenzo Mancuso Marcello, Luciano Gagliano, Carlo Taverna, Bernardo Millitrano.

On an april morning in 1893 Gagliano was led by Mariano Colletti into a room where he was inducted into the Corleone mafia. His induction was presided by “Fratuzzi” capomafia Giuseppe “Piddu” Battaglia and also were there the buildingowner Mariano Colletti, Giuseppe Ridulfo “Acidduzzo”, Luciano Gagliano “inteso Lo Forte”, Bernardo Terranova, Pasquale Oronato, the brothers Calogero and Mariano Majuri, Gaetano Liggio inteso Ficateddu and others. Capomafia "Piddu" Battaglia explained that they were “fratuzzi"


Corleone late 19th century
The Streva family were the alleged powers in the Corleone cosca in the late 19th century and among the followers of Streva were Morello and Dragna. (source: The barrel case by Flynn).





San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
15 october 1919 was in the via (street)Vittorio Emanuele the man Calogero Lazio killed.


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
26 december 1919 was in his own house Dionisio Ricotta killed.


Prizzi murdercase socialist Nicola Alongi (57)
29 February 1920 was in Prizzi the socialist leader Nicola Alongi shot and killed at the orders of Prizzi capomafia Silvestre "Sisì" Gristina.


Genuardo, Cassini family
Beginning may 1920 was the campieri Cesare from Corleone shot dead by Alessandro Cassini who wants to show this way that he is the boss but it starts only a feud between the Cassini family from Genuardo and the mafiafamilies from Aderno, Corleone and Bisacquino who are led by don Vito Cascioferro. (the book by Anton Block was the source on the Cassini family).


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
20 july 1920 Mario Bruno (Rosario) was killed at former feudal Giambascio.


Palermo murdercase socialist Giovanni Orcel (33)
In Palermo was 14 october 1920, the socialist head of the metal workers of Cgil, Giovanni Orcel, so severly wounded by the mafia that he died in hospital. Possible suspect in this murder was also Prizzi capomafia Silvestre "Sisì" Gristina.


San Cipirello capomafia Vito Todaro
21 October 1920 was Saverio Turacciolo killed, he was a member of the cooperative “Pio X”. 15 days earlier he had led the occupation by farmers of the domain Jannuzzo. Turacciolo had visited the night of the murder San Cipirello capomafia Vito Todaro and near the murderscene was San Cipirello mafioso Giuseppe Todaro seen. For the murder was indicted Francesco Garrisi (born 1896 and son of Angelo??).


Corleone, Fratuzzi capomafia Michelangelo Gennaro
Corleone, “Fratuzzi” capomafia Giuseppe “Piddu” Battaglia was in 1920 replaced by Michelangelo Gennaro (the nephew of former boss Salvatore Cutrera who was his uncle). Another important member in those years was Angelo Gagliano (he was an uncle by marriage of the later capomafia Michele Navarra). Filippo Gennaro, the son of Michelangelo Gennaro, was the killer of Vincent Collura, the nephew of former capomafia Calogero Lo Bue.


Palermo murdercase Prizzi capomafia Silvestre “Sisi” Gristina
In Palermo was 23 january 1921 Prizzi capomafia don Silvestre "Sisi" Gristina killed when he visited Vito Cascioferro from Bisacquino with whom he talked about business. Prizzi capomafia don Silvestre "Sisi" Gristina was brother of Prizzi mayor Epifanio Gristina.


(testimony of the sister of Giuseppe Finazzo before judge Triolo. f. 460) (GOOD LEAD, JUDGE TRIOLO)
In march 1921 was Giuseppe Finazzo wounded in march 1921 in a firefight with Ignazio Terrana, Salvatore Immordino, Antonino Candela and Sebastiano Rampudda who wounded him with gunshots. Giuseppe Finazzo declares to the police officers it was a hunting incident. Giuseppe Finazzo wanted to go to the USA after being recovered. . He was approached by Santo Termini who advised him to meet Terrana, Immordino, Candela and Rampudda. Finazzo was never seen since the meeting.

Also the brothers Terrasi and Giuseppe Finazzo became victims of a lupara bianca.


Borgetto
1 May 1921 my father Antonino Di Marco was assassinated in Borgetto. (testimony of Vincenzo Di Marco,34 and son of Antonino from Borgetto on 28 february 1927). His son Vincenzo Di Marco asks information from a certain Petruso. Petruso answered that “between the mafia of Borgetto and the mafia of San Giuseppe Jato there was a string murders." The assassin of Di Marco’s father is Filippo Rappa. Filippo Rappa had also assassinated, in contrada Bommarito, a certain Finazzo, who disappeared in San Giuseppe Jato. The reason: Finazzo had ordered Filippo Rappa to assassinate Giuseppe Celeste from San Cipirello. While Finazzo prepared the murder, Rappa became friends with Giuseppe Celeste. Filippo Rappa then killed Finazzo in an ambush and buried him in contrada Bommarito. The murder was in vain to safe Giuseppe Celeste because later he was killed by San Cipirello capomafia Vito Todaro.


Genuardo, Cassini family
14 May 1921 were Simone Cassini and 3 shepherds heldup and bound after which their money and herd were stolen. (the book by Anton Block was the source on the Cassini family).


San Cipirello
5 June 1921 was in San Cipirello Giuseppe Celeste shot and killed. Indicted was Giuseppe Todaro (born 1899 as son of Vincenzo??) because he was found in a palermitan hospital with Vito Todaro (son of Giuseppe??) who had been wounded in the murder of Celeste. Indicted also were Giovanni Pardo (son of Francesco??), Ignazio Mustacchia (son of Bartolomeo); Giuseppe Mustacchia from Camporeale; Francesco Crociata “Croce”; Domenico Pardo (son of Francesco??) and Santo Pardo (son of Francesco??).


Palermo murdercase Cannella
7 June 1921 was Gaetano Cannella killed.


San Cipirello capomafia Vito Todaro
Giuseppe Di Maggio who had been implicated in the assassination attempt on Vito Todaro, left his house 14 june 1921 and disappeared for ever. With him also disappeared Giuseppe Faraone.


Genuardo, Cassini family
The Cassini family hits back 22 june 1921 by killing the campieri Vittorio from Corleone. (the book by Anton Block was the source on the Cassini family).


Genuardo, Cassini family
Edoardo Cofano the boss of Aderno had his men then kill 1 july 1921 Alessandro Cassini. Giovanni Cassini killed then Saverio Tortochetti because Tortochetti had fingered Alessandro Cassini to the father of Cesare as the murderer. (the book by Anton Block was the source on the Cassini family).


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
19 July 1921 was Salvatore Bruno killed.


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
1 August 1921 was Giuseppe Giordano (son of Girolamo??) killed at the former domain Mortille. His body was found in september 1921 he was a friend of Baldassare Caiola (killed later) (Ordinanza di rinvio. f. 81)


San Cipirello
Baldassare Labbruzzo was 31 october 1921 killed in San Cipirello. He had opposed Leonardo Sgroi and was afraid of Santo Termini. (Ordinanza di rinvio. f. 54)


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
2 November 1921 was Baldassare Caiola (son of Giuseppe ??) killed.


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
9 November 1921 was Onorato Bommarito killed.


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
28 November 1921 was Baldassare Musonserra killed.


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
29 November 1921 was Giuseppe Sgroi killed.


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
27 January 1922 was Stefano D'Anna killed at the former domain Mortille. Stefano D'Anna (son of Girolamo D’Anna and Nicolina Pulejo) had been part in a holdup but was killed by other criminals (Comunicazione di RR.Carabinieri. f. 242)


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
27 January 1922 was Filippo Salamone killed at the former domain Mortille.


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
31 May 1922 was Benedetto Romano killed at the former domain Mortille.


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
31 May 1922 was also his brother Girolamo Romano killed.


San Cipirello
3 August 1922 was Michele Clemenza robbed in San Cipirello, the perpetrators were unknown. 22 august 1922 Giuseppe Clemenza, brother of the robbed Michele Clemenza, disappeared as a victim of the lupara bianca, he had tried to find out who was behind the robbery of his brother. (Ordinanza di rinvio f. 97)


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
10 August 1922 disappears Calogero Maniscalco who was suspected of the kidnapping of the young Emanuele Termini.


Genuardo, Cassini family
5 November 1922 was Giuseppe Cassini's brother in law Bernardo killed, he had left a will in which he accused the mafiosi Giuseppe Battaglia from Corleone, Vito Cascioferro, Pietro Scirlabbro and Edouardo Cofano in case he was murdered. The killer is Cascioferro's righthand Giuseppe Damati who then fled to the US. (the book by Anton Block was the source on the Cassini family).


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
8 November 1922 was at the former domain Disisa a decomposed body of a woman found.


Corleone mayor Giovanni Milone
The famous policeman Giuseppe Alongi who was made policecommissioner of Corleone in 1923 wrote: "The elected mayor Giovanni Milone, sat placed side by side with "fratuzzi" like Michelangelo Gennaro and Salvatore Pennino and Leonardo La Torre, Giovanni Trombadori, Pietro Majuri and Saverio Montalbano. “Today we would say that the Corleone council got infiltrated in 1923”.


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
8 september 1923 was Michele Di Piazza killed.


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
18 september 1923 was Santo Pullara killed at the former domain Giambascio.


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
14 april 1923 was Pasqua Clemenza killed in his house (N.d.A.: era casalinga).


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
17 may 1923 was Salvatore Di Maggio killed.


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
19 June 1923 was Calogero Polizzi killed.


San Giuseppe Jato capomafia Santo Termini
Giuseppe Lo Cicero (62) declared 29 november 1926 supported by the witnesses Giovanni Finocchio and Antonina Lo Cicero: After the murder of my nephew Pietro Lo Cicero I knew from his brother Vincenzo Lo Cicero (who had been told by his dying brother Pietro) that he had recognized his killers Domenico and Vincenzo Balistreri, Antonino Candela and Giovanni Cavallaro. San Giuseppe Jato capomafia Santo Termini had ordered Domenico Balistreri who arranged the murder. Antonino Traina is the brother of capomafia Vincenzo Traina. Giuseppe Bonura is a cousin of the Balistreri brothers. Vincenzo Gambino is a close friend of Balistreri. Antonino Pulejo “Ninu 'u latru” is a terrible man and criminal. Benedetto Ferrara worked as a guard and employee for Santo Termini. With them Santo Termini worked to intimidate witnesses and give false testimonies to free Domenico Balistreri. Santo Termini even acompanied the investigators when they visited the widow.





(Ordinanza di rinvio. f. 103)
"Certi Terrasi G. Battista ed Agostino, datisi alla latitanza in seguito all'arresto dei fratelli Domenico e Nicolò, ebbero modo di far sapere alla madre, Lo Coco Giuseppa, che erano al sicuro presso Santo Termini nella contrada Dammusi ov'era campiere Terrana Ignazio. Costui, in seguito, fu arrestato insieme alla Lo Coco e le disse essere convinto che l'arresto proveniva per chiamata di correo dei Terrasi da lui ospitati, quindi minacciava di sterminare la razza. Si è ritenuto che i due Terrasi, di cui non si ha più notizia, siano stati soppressi anche per ordine della mafia, ma giustamente il Pubblico Ministero rileva che non può indagarsi sulla prova della responsabilità, quando non si ha la prova che un omicidio esista. Provato è invece ad esuberanza che il Termini ed il Terrana furono favoreggiatori dei Terrasi."


(Niotta Ignazio fu Stefano di anni 50 Presidente della Cooperativa 'Giosuè Borsi' di San Giuseppe Jato. f. 565)
"Sono da ricordare gli assassini e le scomparse di Maniscalco Calogero fatto sparire dalla maffia perché aveva sequestrato il figlio di Calogero Termini, l'assassinio di Celeste Giuseppe autore di un mancato omicidio di Vito Todaro; la scomparsa di Finazzo Giuseppe, l'assassinio dei fratelli Romano, quello di Caiola Baldassare e quello di Labbruzzo Baldassare, che ora viene attribuito ai fratelli Bellone Giuseppe e Calogero a Stefano Allegro e Vicari Onofrio."

(f. 613)
Grippi Pietro assassinato dai figli di Di Corte Calogero fu Nicolò a nome Vincenzo e Nicolò.

(Ordinanza di rinvio. f. 81)
"Omicidio di Moscona Antonino"






Prefect Cesare Mori
The first operation occurred on 13 December 1924 when the notorious brigand Salvatore Patti was killed in a firefight with the Pubblica Sicurezza. The next day 142 suspects were arrested in the territory of Piazza Armerina. The roundup revealed an intricate network of interprovincial delinquency that operated with impunity, protected by the mafia. These picciotti were mostly street thieves, working in groups, preying on innocent citizens.


But 30 March 1926 Farinacci was forced to the dimissioni from Mussolini, than its extremism did not tolerate more. Some months after, to Palermo the same fate touched to Cucco, accused of collusioni with the Mafia from Moors, than it had been leaned to the Lord's prayer, returned therefore in auge. And the lawyer, elect in the 1929 provincial secretary of the PNF, did not forget "fratuzzi" the its fellow countrymen, than therefore could survive, without large traumi, to the last years of the fascist dictatorship, finding itself ready to occupy places of commando in the Corleone of the post-war period. Meaningful, with regard to, than 20 August 1937, when Benito Mussolini passed trionfalmente from Corleone, the secretary of Fascio Fofò Tubolino concurred that to receive it there was also "gotha" the mafia one of the country, than also some civil employee of the police headquarters had suggested - at least for that day - to hold in jail. Until today, the historical searches record a shadow zone "on the distances are followed from the Mafia in years ' 30 - Andretta supports - suscitan- give the relative question mark to its riemersione to the end of the second world war". In its small, the corleonese vicissitude seems to project a light bundle to you.


Ma il 30 marzo 1926 Farinacci fu costretto alle dimissioni da Mussolini, che non tollerò più il suo estremismo. Alcuni mesi dopo, a Palermo la stessa sorte toccò a Cucco, accusato di collusioni con la mafia da Mori, che si era appoggiato al Paternostro, ritornato così in auge. E l’avvocato, eletto nel 1929 segretario provinciale del PNF, non dimenticò i "fratuzzi" suoi compaesani, che così poterono sopravvivere, senza grossi traumi, agli ultimi anni della dittatura fascista, trovandosi pronti ad occupare posti di comando nella Corleone del dopoguerra. Significativo, al riguardo, che il 20 agosto 1937, quando Benito Mussolini passò trionfalmente da Corleone, il segretario del Fascio Fofò Tubolino consentì che ad accoglierlo ci fosse anche il "gotha" mafioso del paese, che pure
qualche funzionario della questura aveva suggerito - almeno per quel giorno - di tenere in galera. Fino ad oggi, le ricerche storiche registrano una zona d’ombra «sui percorsi seguiti dalla mafia negli anni ’30 – sostiene Andretta – suscitan- do l’interrogativo relativo alla sua riemersione alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale». Nel suo
piccolo, la vicenda corleonese sembra proiettarvi un fascio di luce.


San Cipirello
31march 1924 was Calogero Madonia killed in San Cipirello.


Piana dei Greci mayor and capocosca Francesco Cuccia and Mussolini
4 May 1924 visits Mussolini Sicily for 5 days and also visited the towns Palermo, Agrigento, Trapani, Marsala and Piana dei Greci. In the last town the local mafiaboss Francesco Cuccia who is there the mayor had shown clearly to Mussolini who the real boss was in the town and had offended this way Mussolini.


Prefect Cesare Mori
On 28 May 1924, Cesare Mori received a telegram asking him to return to Sicily, to Trapani, with the unstated understanding that he was destined after a short stay to be ordered to Palermo to organized the fight against the mafia.


Rome, socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti killed
13 June 1924 was the socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti kidnapped by fascists in Rome and murdered.


San Cipirello
26 July 1924 was Vito Clemenza, brother of the killed Giuseppe and the robbed Michele Clemenza, killed in San Cipirello.


Palermo
in 1924 there are 278 murders. Conflicts between the cosche became more frequent because they had to defend their territories against eachother because sources of income became less.


Italy, Rome parliament
In 1924 Sicily choses 38 fascists at a total of 57 parliament members from Sicily in Rome.


Prefect Cesare Mori
On 23 October 1924, Mori notified the Pubblica Sicurezza of the new orders. He wanted a police/military force with the ability to strike quickly and forcefully.


Corleone, Fratuzzi capomafia Michelangelo Gennaro dies
At the end of 1924 dies Corleone capomafia Michelangelo Gennaro and new Corleone “fratuzzi” capomafia became for many years Calogero Lo Bue who is originally from nearby Prizzi and his nephew is Vincent Collura.
Corleone, “Fratuzzi” capomafia Calogero Lo Bue


San Cipirello
31 January 1925 Pietro Lo Cicero killed near San Cipirello.


San Cipirello
18 July 1925 was Giuseppe Sciortino killed he was suspected of the robbery of Michele Clemenza.


Corleone mayor baron Angelo Sarzana
In 1925 was chosen Corleone mayor baron Angelo Sarzana (25) who local carabiniericaptain Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa nicknamed “the mafia baron”.

Corleone mayor baron Angelo Sarzana ”the mafia baron”.
Till that point the mafia had been all powerfull the people voted en masse PNF and in the elections of 1925 was baron Angelo Sarzana (25) chosen, according to Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa: ”the mafia baron”. So the “fratuzzi” had become “fascists” still at the end of 1925 with the nomination to national secretary of the PNF of the "radical" Roberto Farinacci,who began his "crusade" against the Mafia, culminating in the famous "raid" of Mori on Corleone. In Palermo Farinacci could count on Alfredo Cucco (the fascistbanker???). corleonese lawyer Roberto Paternostro, turned from party.


Leonardo La Torre ??????????


Castellammare mayor Navarra dies
In 1925 died Baldassare Navarra.


Catania
In 1925 was in Catania the first cosca started by Antonino Saietta (his brothers are Vincenzo and Luigi saietta and their sister is the mother of the Calderone brothers. (Calderone testimonies).


San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello
15 december 1925 was Gaetano Lo Re killed.


Gangi (Palermo) and Prefect Cesare Mori
The Prefetto sent the Gangi mayor a telegram that read that all latitanti (fugitives from justice) must surrender by a designated hour otherwise stern measures would be taken against their families and property. After thirty-two years of dominating Gangi as its own fiefdom, the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang was destroyed. On 7 January 1926 Giuseppe Andaloro gave up after the Pubblica Sicurezza sequestered and sold to the Gangi citizens his livestock. The other capomafia, Salvatore Ferrarello, nicknamed "Sciroccu," because wherever he went he was as destructive as the hot and sandy wind, the scirocco, that blew in from Africa, and previously condemned to fifty years confinement, was last to surrender.


Prefect Cesare Mori
In March 1926, there were 295 arrests in the mafia hotbed of Termini Imerese, just east of Palermo. Three hundred more latitanti were taken into custody in April, including a lawyer, a monk and a pharmacist. The most successful operations that month were in Mistretta, a center of crime with connections to the entire island, with the arrest of lawyer Giuseppe Ortoleva. In Piana dei Greci, Don Ciccio Cuccia, a major player in many mafia escapades, was brought to heel. In later months, more than 300 men were arrested in the territory of Palermo and consigned to the notorious Ucciardone Prison.


Palermo murdercase Michele Clemenza
13 may 1926 was in Palermo Michele Clemenza from San Cipirello killed, he had fled to Palermo. Michele Clemenza told police before dying that his killers were Tommaso Bono, Giuseppe and Salvatore Celeste (sons of Pietro??) and Giuseppe Immordino (son of Francesco??). (Verbale dei RR.CC. f. 24)


Prefect Cesare Mori on Sicily
Sicily’s most important boss was the mafiaboss Vito Cascioferro he was convicted in 1926 by prefect Cesare Mori and convicted by he court of Agrigento, Ferro got life for the murders of Francesco Falconieri and Gioacchino Lo Voi. (Source on the murder conviction: Mafiosi by Gaia Servadio, page 62).


Corleone and prefect Mori
Corleone’s mafiosi knew 3 days before Mori’s operation on 20 december 1926. 17 December 1926 prefect Cesare Mori had closed the “Circolo agricolo”, for years this place had been a place for “fratuzzi” mafiosi. It was one of their headquarters and had been founded in 1920 by capomafia Michelangelo Gennaro, gabelloto of feudal estate Torrazza, and who had followed up the old capomafia Giuseppe Battaglia. Corleone’s socialist mayor was Carmelo Lo Cascio


Andaloro-Ferrarello gang trial
In October 1927 in Termini Imerese, Sicily, the trial of the 153 members of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang began. Interest centred on Giuseppa (Josephine) Andaloro, mother of three sons and four daughters, together ringleaders of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. She ordered murders, robberies, extortions, ambushings, torture, kidnappings. The trial began with evidence from Salvatore Ferrarello, notorious chief. He denied that he was ever a member of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. He was the nephew of Gaetano Ferrarello, [another notorious bandit chief who killed himself in prison rather than face trial,]. I think the suicide is in the movie that exists about Mori’s war on the mafia.


Prefect Cesare Mori on Sicily
When Mori wants to arrest the political mafia Mussolini calls him back in 1928 and says the mafia was destroyed, the surivivors had started to support the fascists.







Cesare Mori book (memoires)
Cesare Mori, Con la mafia ai ferri corti, Verona 1932.


Corleone mafioso Giacomo Riina “u zu Giacomo”
Giacomo Riina (born in 1908 in Corleone). He went to prison for the first time in 1932 when he got 11 years for the violent rape of a woman. Giacomo Riina was Salvatore Riina's uncle and was the brother in law of Luciano Liggio.


Corleone capomafia Luciano Leggio (familyname Liggio)
Luciano Liggio was in 1925 born in Corleone.


Corleone capomafia Salvatore Riina
Father Giovanni riina had 5 children. Salvatore "Toto" Riina was born 16 november 1930. During World War II the shepherd Giovanni Riina and his son Francesco were killed 11 september 1943 in Corleone when the father tries to dismantle an unexploded aircraft bomb for its gunpowder, his son Gaetano gets wounded and Salvatore "toto" Riina (13) stays unharmed. Salvatore Riina is married with Antoinette "Ninetta" Bagarella, she is the sister of Calogero Bagarella (killed in 1969 in Via slaughter) and Leoluca Bagarella (imprisoned in 1995).


Corleone capomafia Bernardo Provenzano
Bernardo Provenzano (born 31 january 1933) and his brothers Salvatore Provenzano and Simone Provenzano (he lives in Germany). Their sister had as sons Carmelo Garriffo and Michele Gariffo. Bernardo Provenzano's (nipote) nephew Vito Alfano and Provenzano's brother in law Paolo Palazzolo.


Brothers Rosario Lo Bue (his sons Giuseppe and Leoluca Lo Bue) and Calogero Lo Bue and his son Giuseppe Lo Bue (Giuseppe Lo Bue, 36 anni, è un nipote acquisito di Provenzano. L'uomo, rappresentante di aspirapolveri, è sposato con la figlia di Carmelo Gariffo, matrimonio che suggella la parentela con il boss Provenzano. Giuseppe Lo Bue era il primo nella particolare staffetta dei pizzini e


Corleone capomafia Leoluca Bagarella
Leoluca Bagarella was born in Corleone 3 february 1942. He is married with Giuseppina Marchese (the sister of the brothers Giuseppe and Antonino Marchese). Agata di Filippo is married with Bagarella’s brother in law Antonino Marchese, her brothers are Pasquale and Emanuele di Filippo. Di Filippo is married with the daughter of Kalsa boss Spadaro? Salvatore Riina and Ninetta Bagarella got daughters Lucia and maria Concetta and the sons Giovanni and Giuseppe.


Corleone capomafia dr Navarra
In 1957 US deportee Vincenzo Collura gets shot to death in Corleone, already his son Filippo was murdered before him, they worked for Liggio. Liggio's men had given Navarra's brother a lupara bianca (a disappearance).


Corleone, Liggio
3 October 1957 was Carmelo Lo Bue killed by Liggio.


Murdercase Corleone capomafia Navarra
2 August 1958 dr Michelle Navarra and dr Giovanni Russo drive into an ambush and get shot dead by Liggio, Riina, Bagarella and Provenzano in their car. Navarra was returning to Corleone from a visit at Lercara Friddi.
Corleone capomafia Liggio


Corleone capocosca Liggio
6 September 1958 Salvatore Riina goes to a peace meeting with Navarra's men the brothers Marco Marino and Giovanni Marino and Pietro Maiuri (the son of Ciro Maiuri and Vito Ciancimino's niece, Vito Ciancimino will become Palermo's longest ruling mayor). It is a trap and Bagarella and Provenzano appear and kill the three men. Giovanni Marino is the son of Leoluca Marino and Carmela Liggio. A shopkeeper witnessed it and disappered later, the war had costed 153 lifes since 1953 and in it were killed Michelangelo Randsio, Angelo Gullota, the three grisi brothers, Pietro Montasanto, Pino Orecchione, Vito Capra, Mariane Governale, Mariano Scalisi (after his head had been shot off , they had cut of his hands), Salvatore Amenda, Michele Scuzzulato. (thanks brother Jones)


Corleone double murdercase Provenzano and Cortimiglia (suspect Leggio)
In february 1961 was Leggio indicted for the murders of Salvatore Provenzano and Vincenzo Cortimiglia.


Corleone mafioso Giacomo Riina “u zu Giacomo”
Giacomo Riina “u zu Giacomo” was again arrested in 1964 (from Bologna who is an uncle of Luciano Leggio).


Dopo la morte di Pino Oleggio, che era nipote di Giacomo Riina, i rapporti si sono raffreddati, tant'è vero che nel '94 Bagarella per i fatti avvenuti a Corleone sospettava che ci fosse lo zampino del... del Giacomo Riina.


Rome, attack at police officer Mangano
5 April 1973 Leggio with the help of Camorra boss Michele Zaza and Zaza's nephew Ciro Mazzarella do an attack in Rome at police commissioner Angelo Mangano, he only gets wounded.


Corleone, Riina
16 April 1973 marry Riina and Antonina Bagarella.


Sicily murdercase pensioned policeman Angelo Sorino (suspect Leoluca Bagarella)
10 January 1974 was Angelo Sorino killed by the Corleonesi under the topkiller Leoluca Bagarella, he was a pensioned policeman who still investigated mafia crimes.







Provenzano
2 June 1997 were Francesco Raineri and Francesco Barbaccia arrested in Palermo because they had helped Provenzano avoiding the police. The last is the nephew of the namesake CD deputee.


Corleone mafioso Carmelo Garriffo arrested (Provenzano family)
29 October 1997 was Carmelo Garriffo, the nephew of the boss Bernardo Provenzano arrested (his mother is the sister of Bernardo), he would be the righthand of his uncle and be leading the cosca in Corleone. With him were arrested Leoluca Guccione who is a friend of Siino and a nephew of Palermo’s mayor Leoluca Orlando.


San Giuseppe Iato boss Salvatore Genovese
Salvatore Genovese's position was threatened by the new boss Giovanni DiLorenzo and he had his men kill in january 1999 Giovanni Salvatore Spatafora in San Cipirello where the mayor is Calogero Trupiano. Spatafora had been a front for Provenzanos cousins Carmelo and Michele Gariffo.




Marseille hospital
In october 2003 arrived bernardo Provenzano in Marseille hospital "La Ciotat" under the name of Gaspare Troia to have a prostate operation. He was accompanied by Salvatore Troia, the son of Gaspare Troia.



Resuttana (Palermo) mafiafamily Bonanno
23 December 2003 was near a hospital in Palermo the body found of the fugitive Francesco Bonanno (38), who was known as a capo of the Resuttana cosca, allied with Lo Piccolo, capimafia of the area. Bonanno had died of a heartattack, he was a son of Armando, one of the killers with Giuseppe Madonia and Vincenzo Puccio of Monreale (Pa) carabinieri captain Emanuele Basile, who was killed in may 1980.


Vicari capomafia Salvatore Umina arrested
17 July 2004 were Provenzano’s trustee Vicari capomafia Salvatore Umina (63 and his wife is Pietra C.) and his brothers Giuseppe Umina (58), Gioacchino Umina (66), and Gioacchino’s son Carmelo Umina (42) arrested with Michelangelo (66) and Domenico Pravatà (31) from Roccapalumba , brothers Francesco (51) and Domenico Dolce (61), and Domenico’s son Giovanni Dolce (33) and Ignazio Saccio (36). Giovanni Dolce is the son in law of Salvatore Umina.


ARRESTATI I FEDELISSIMI DI PROVENZANO
17 luglio 2004

Palermo. In carcere i fedelissimi di Bernardo Provenzano con l’accusa di associazione mafiosa, favoreggiamento ed estorsione. Sono finiti in manette i fratelli Salvatore, Gioacchino e Giuseppe Umina, rispettivamente di 63, 66 e 58 anni, Carmelo Umina di 42, figlio di Gioacchino, i fratelli Francesco e Domenico Dolce, di 51 e 61 anni, Giovanni Dolce di 33, figlio di Domenico, Michelangelo e Gaetano Pravatà di 66 e 31 anni e Ignazio Saccio di 36. Di loro aveva parlato a lungo l’ex capomafia di Caccamo Antonino Giuffré, arrestato nell’aprile di due anni fa nelle campagne di Vicari. Alle sue dichiarazioni si aggiungono anche quelle di Ciro Vara e Salvatore Facella. <<Io l’ho conosciuto nel carcere di Termini Imprese, dove mi è stato presentato da Ciccio Intile, che all’epoca era il mio capo mandamento - riferisce Facella ai pm -. Siamo alla fine del 1983 e mi è stato presentato come reggente di Vicari>>. Sempre dalle dichiarazioni dei collaboratori di giustizia emergono le attività su cui puntava l’organizzazione. La cosca di Vicari avrebbe incentrato i suoi "interessi" sulle estorsioni imposte alle aziende Gas e Congas impegnate nella realizzazione della rete del metano, a imprese edili e agricoltori, ai quali veniva imposta una sorta di tassa sui prodotti venduti. Personaggi centrali dell’indagine sono Salvatore Umina, detto "zio Turi", (al momento dell’arresto il boss è stato trovato che dormiva su un letto di 160 mila euro nascosti sulla testiera), Domenico Dolce e Michelangelo Pravatà.
Umina, dipendente dell’azienda Iposas che fa parte dell’indotto Fiat, guadagnava mensilmente più di 2.500 euro, cioè 5 milioni di vecchie lire. Francesco Gizzi, il proprietario dell’Iposas, racconta che: Salvatore Umina era il vecchio patriarca, o mafioso, del paese che grazie ai buoni rapporti tenuti con nostro padre ci aveva garantito di lavorare serenamente. Per gli atteggiamenti che manifestava sembrava quello che i libri e i giornali connotano come mafioso, dove, più che al denaro pensasse all’immagine, al potere e al prestigio. Noi potevamo stare tranquilli proprio perché lui non ci sarebbe andato contro. Ma Umina per le sue capacità diceva che doveva avere uno stipendio adeguato>>. In pratica il boss dirigeva l’azienda. <<Tutto ciò che doveva essere pianificato - dice Gizzi - dipendeva da lui, comprese le assunzioni. Noi non potevamo ribellarci>>.
<<Alcuni degli arrestati in passato avevano fatto parte, come impuntati, del terzo maxiprocesso. Evidentemente, i capi di Cosa Nostra si affidavano sempre ai vecchi rappresentanti che hanno dimostrato di essere affidabili, piuttosto che reclutare esterni non consanguinei. E’ un dato impressionante - dice il procuratore Pietro Grasso - dopo aver scontato la pena, quei mafiosi erano tornati al vecchio mestiere. E’ una mafia antica la loro, quella delle campagne>>.
Maria Loi [pagebreak]

Provenzano contactman Francesco Pastoia
In june 2004, mafioso Francesco Pastoia completed his jail sentence. In an abandoned farmhouse near Palermo, Mafia members seeking contact with Provenzano left coded notes for the Mafia boss and later received responses from Francesco Pastoia. Police hid three listening bugs in the farmhouse and learnt that Pastoia was to meet Provenzano on September 19, but the Mafia boss was tipped off. In october 2004 an entrepeneur was killed in Palermo and later became a suspect in the murder mafioso Francesco Pastoia.


Altofonte murdercase Oreste Lo Nigro
3 October 2004 was also near Altofonte killed Oreste Lo Nigro (son of Enrico who had been killed in 1997).


Palermo murdercase Salvatore Geraci
3 October 2004 was in Palermo Salvatore Geraci killed, with his firm Enterprise he handled the building contracts for the mafia. He had been sentenced in 1998 and was released in 2000. In october 2004 an entrepeneur was killed in Palermo and later became a suspect in the murder mafioso Francesco Pastoia.


Operation “Grande mandamento”
25 January 2005 police end operation “Grande mandamento” and arrest about 50 people under whom Salvatore Troia who becomes pentito and told about Provenzano’s prostate operation in the marseille clinic. His story was supported by his at the same time arrested friend Mario Cusimano who also became a pentito. Also Belmonte Mezzagno mafioso Francesco Pastoia was arrested, he was the contactman for Provenzano and the other bosses had to communicate with Provenzano via Pastoia.


Sant'Anna prison suicidecase Belmonte Mezzagno mafioso Francesco Pastoia (62)
28 January 2005 committed Francesco Pastoia (62) suicide in Sant'Anna prison, he had hanged himself in his cel. Investigators were quoted by ANSA as saying Pastoia became aware that police had records of telephone conversations in which he had tried to cheat Provenzano in business dealings, and had carried out killings without the authorisation of his superiors in the Cosa Nostra


Raffadali (Ag) murdercase
3 march 2005 was near Raffadali the body found of Maurizio Giglione. He had been arrested in october 2004 for drugs.


Giuseppe Gelardi arrested
24 march 2005 was in Ivory Coast the fugitive partinico capomafia Giuseppe Gelardi arrested. He stands trial with Leonardo Vitale for the murder of Vito Salvia who was killed 1994 in a clash between cosche. Gelardi is the son in law of Partinico capomafia Giovanni Bonomo, who also had been arrested in Africa in 2003.


Partinico murdercase Mario Rappa
24 June 2005 was Mario Rappa of the Vitale clan killed, of this were the Provenzano allies suspectd???


Partinico murdercase Maurizio Lo Iacono
3 october 2005 was in Partinico (Pa) Maurizio Lo Iacono (34), the son of capomafia Francesco Lo Iacono (in jail for some time) killed. The man had been a trustee of capomafia Vito Vitale, but after that ones arrest he had gone to the side of Provenzano. Police speculate that the murder had been ordered by Mimmo Raccuglia, from Altofonte (Pa), an ally of Vitale, it is a message to Provenzano and revenge for the murder of Mario Rappa of the Vitale clan.


Resuttana (Palermo) mafiafamily Bonanno
9 January 2006 disappears Giovanni Bonanno (35), reputed underboss of the Resuttana “family” he was proably a victim of the socalled “lupara bianca”. He is a son of Armando Bonanno and Francesco Bonanno was his brother. Giovanni Bonanno was released from prison some months before, and in the same period Aldo Madonia, the younger son of boss Francesco, gets out of prison.


27 January 2006 was near Caccamo (Palermo province) Antonio Canu (33 and originally from Trabia) shot and killed. Former Caccamo boss and pentito Antonino Giuffre had already said in his testimoney in 2002 that Antonio Canu had been condemned to be murdered. That because Canu had done holdups and pizzo extortion without the agreement of the bosses. Giuffre said he was asked permission in july 1999 from Trabia capomafia Salvatore Rinella to kill Canu.



Palermo
7 March 2006 were entrepreneurs and local administrators, including the mayor of Villabate arested, they are involved in the joint Anti-mafia operation of Carabinieri and Police from Palermo, Rome, Catania, Modena and Ravenna. Since dawn, soldiers from the provincial command of Palermo and workers on the flying squad have been carrying out 18 arrest warrants issued by the preliminary investigative judge Pasqua Seminara, on request from the public prosecutors of the Anti-Mafia District Department Michele Prestipino Giarritta, Maurizio De Lucia and Antonino Di Matteo, and of the deputy prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone. The charges are those of Mafia association, external complicity in Mafia association, extortion and corruption. Two collaborators of justice contributed to investigations: Francesco Campanella, former president of the town council of Villabate, arrested for having supplied the identity card used by Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano for his trips to France, and Mario Cusumano, a prominent member of the Mafia clan of Villabate, where the town council was broken up for Mafia infiltrations in 2001 and 2003




Capomafia Bernardo Provenzano arrested
11 April 2006 was near Corleone capomafia Bernardo Provenzano arrested. With him police arrested Calogero Lo Bue, his son Giuseppe Lo Bue and Bernardo Riina who are all from Corleone.

MAFIA BOSSES GAVE ORDERS FROM PRISON. 5 ARRESTED
(AGI) - Messina, Apr. 14 - Five people have been arrested by the Carabinieri in Messina as part of an investigation into mafia bosses who allegedly keep running their criminal organizations from jail. The men used mobile phones to maintain control over extortions, drug trafficking, weapon trafficking and other illegal activities. Searches were carried out in jails both in Messina and in Reggio Calabria.
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There’s the nowadays list of current sicilian bosses


FU= Fugitive; IP= Imprisoned; the others all free

Provincia di Palermo


Famiglie Capi famiglia/mandamento

Tommaso Natale Salvatore Lo Piccolo (FU) – capo mandamento/provincia/regione (?)
San Lorenzo Mariano Tullio Troia (IP)/Antonino Lo Bianco
Partanna Mondello Salvatore Graziano
Capaci ?

Resuttana Francesco Madonia (IP)/Diego Madonia – capo mandamento
Acquasanta Vincenzo Galatolo (IP)/Angelo Galatolo
Arenella Gaetano Fidanzati

Passo di Rigano Domenico Buscemi (FU) – capo mandamento
Boccadifalco Vincenzo Marcianò
Uditore ?
Torretta ?

Malaspina Antonino Cinà – capo mandamento
Noce Giusto Sciarabba
Altarello di Baida ?

Palermo centro Agostino Badalamenti – capo mandamento
Porta Nuova Vincenzo Buccafusca
Borgo Vecchio Francesco Paolo Romano

Pagliarelli Giovanni Motisi (FU) – capo mandamento
Borgo Molara Vincenzo Cascino (FU)
Mezzomonreale Pietro Badagliacca

Santa Maria di Gesù Salvatore Fileccia (FU) – capo mandamento
Villagrazia Gioacchino Capizzi (FU)
Guadagna Giuseppe Greco (FU)

Ciaculli Francesco La Rosa (FU) – capo mandamento
Roccella Giuseppe Guttadauro (IP)/Lorenzo Di Fede
Brancaccio Giovanni Lo Cascio
Corso dei Mille Lorenzo Tinnirello

Partinico Giovanni Bonomo (IP)/Giuseppe Bonomo – capo mandamento
Borgetto Salvatore Prainito (FU)
Montelepre ?
Giardinello ?

Cinisi Vito Badalamenti (FU) – capo mandamento
Terrasini Salvatore D’Anna
Carini Gianbattista Pipitone
Villagrazia di Carini ?

Corleone Bernardo Provenzano (IP)/ ? – capo mandamento
Prizzi Tommaso Cannella
Castronuovo di Sicilia Salvatore Gentile
Roccamena Bartolomeo Cascio
Bisacquino ?
Campofiorito ?

Altofonte Domenico Raccuglia (FU) – capo mandamento
San Giuseppe Jato Salvatore Genovese (IP)/Bernardo Bommarito
Monreale Castrenze Balsano
Camporeale Antonino Sciortino
San Cipirello Giuseppe Agrigento (IP)/Salvatore Agrigento

Misilmeri Pietro Calvo (FU) – capo mandamento
Belmonte Mezzagno Benedetto Spera (IP)/Ignazio Spera
Bolognetta Giuseppe Bono
Baucina Giuseppe Pinello
Ciminna Antonino Episcopo
Villafrati Pasquale Bedami

Bagheria Leonardo Greco (IP)/Nicolò Greco – capo mandamento
Casteldaccia ?
Altavilla Milicia ?
Santa Flavia ?

Villabate Francesco Di Fresco (FU) – capo mandamento
Ficarazzi Giovanni Mezzatesta
Acqua dei Corsari ?

Trabia Domenico Rancadore (FU) – capo mandamento
Caccamo Giuseppe Panzeca
Termini Imerese Santo Balsamo
Cerda Rosolino Rizzo (IP)/Giuseppe Rizzo
Montemaggiore Belsito Giovanni Gullo
Vicari Salvatore Umina
Lercara Friddi ?

San Mauro Castelverde Giuseppe Farinella (IP)/Francesco Bonomo – capo mandamento
Gangi Domenico Virga
Polizzi Generosa Antonio Maranto
Petralia Sottana Carmelo Fazio
Lascari Samuele Schittino


Provincia di Trapani

Alcamo Ignazio Melodia – capo mandamento
Castellammare del Golfo Mariano Asaro
Calatafimi ?

Trapani Vincenzo Virga (IP)/Pietro Virga – capo mandamento
Paceco Francesco Pace
Valderice ?

Mazara del Vallo Mariano Agate (IP)/Vito Mangiaracina – capo mandamento
Marsala Natale Bonafede (IP)/Vincenzo Vito Rallo
Salemi Salvatore Miceli (FU)
Vita Salvatore Crimi
Santa Ninfa Giuseppe Bianco

Castelvetrano Matteo Messina Denaro (FU) – capo mandamento/provincia
Partanna Vincenzo Pandolfo (FU)
Campobello di Mazara Nunzio Spezia (IP)/Vincenzo Spezia
Gibellina Vincenzo Furnari
Salaparuta ?

Provincia di Agrigento

Sambuca di Sicilia Leo Sutera – capo mandamento
Sciacca Carmelo Bono
Santa Margherita Belice Pietro Campo
Caltabellotta ?
Menfi ?

Porto Empedocle Luigi Putrone (IP)/Gerlandino Messina (FU) – capo mandamento
Siculiana Gerlando Caruana
Agrigento Franco Cacciatore
Realmonte ?

Cianciana Andrea Montalbano – capo mandamento
Cattolica Eraclea Domenico Terrasi
Burgio Giovanni Maniscalco
Ribera Simone Capizzi (IP)/Giuseppe Capizzi

Alessandria della Rocca ?
Santo Stefano Quisquina ?
Bivona ?

Santa Elisabetta Salvatore Fragapane (IP)/Stefano Fragapane – capo mandamento
Raffadali Stefano Mangione
Cammarata Raffaele Faldetta
Casteltermini ?

Racalmuto Maurizio Di Gati (FU) – capo mandamento/provincia
Canicattì Calogero Di Caro
Grotte Valentino Licata (IP)/Vincenzo Licata
Aragona ?

Favara Giuseppe Nobile – capo mandamento
Palma di Montechiaro ?
Camastra ?
Naro ?

Campobello di Licata Giuseppe Falsone (FU) – capo mandamento
Ravanusa ?
Licata ?


Provincia di Caltanissetta

Campofranco Domenico Vaccaro – capo mandamento/provincia
Mussomeli Stefano Misuraca
Serradifalco Salvatore Di Francesco (IP)/ ?
Milena Francesco Randazzo

Vallelunga Giuseppe Madonia (IP)/Francesco Tusa – capo mandamento
San Cataldo Cataldo Terminio
Caltanissetta Domenico Magliocco (FU)
Villalba ?

Riesi Giuseppe Cammarata (IP)/Francesco Cammarata – capo mandamento
Mazzarino Salvatore Siciliano (FU)
Sommatino ?
Delia ?

Gela Daniele Emmanuello (FU) – capo mandamento
Gela Crocefisso Rinzivillo
Niscemi Giuseppe Arcerito
Butera ?

Provincia di Enna

Barrafranca Raffaele Bevilacqua – capo mandamento/provincia
Pietraperzia Gaetano Leonardo
Piazza Armerina Pietro Balsamo
Valguarnera ?

Villarosa Salvatore La Placa – capo mandamento
Enna Giovanni Mattiolo
Leonforte Giacomo Sollima
Nicosia ?

Regalbuto Vincenzo Militello – capo mandamento
Catenanuova Antonio Mavica
Agira Giovanni Galletta
Troina ?

Provincia di Catania

Santapaola Benedetto Santapaola (IP)/Giuseppe Ercolano – capo mandamento/provincia
Mazzei Santo Mazzei (IP)/Sebastiano Mazzei (FU)
Cappello Salvatore Cappello (IP)/Angelo Guzzetta
Sciuto Giuseppe Sciuto (IP)/Filippo Marchì
Laudani Sebastiano Laudani (IP)/Orazio Nicolosi
Caltagirone Francesco La Rocca
Calatabiano Antonino Cintorino (IP)/Santo Lizzio
Scordia Giuseppe Di Salvo (FU)
Ramacca Calogero Conti

Provincia di Messina

Mistretta Sebastiano Rampulla – capo mandamento
Barcellona Giuseppe Gullotti (IP)/Salvatore Di Salvo
Villafranca Tirrena Santo Sfameni
Tortorici Cesare Bontempo Scavo (IP)/Vincenzo Bontempo Scavo
Milazzo Michele Ilacqua
Batana Sebastiano Conti Taguali
North Messina Luigi Galli (IP)/Giuseppe Gatto
Middle Messina Carmelo Ventura
South Messina Giacomo Spartà


Provincia di Siracusa/Ragusa

Siracusa Michele Midolo – capo mandamento
Lentini Sebastiano Nardo (IP)/ ?
Solarino Concetto Aparo
Noto Antonino Trigila (IP)/Salvatore Trigila
Vittoria Carmelo Dominante (IP)/Gaetano Dominante
Scicli Pietro Ruggieri
Comiso Francesco Nigito
Ragusa Salvatore Roccasalva
Francofonte ?

i thought Raffaele Bevilacqua was imprisoned?

Bevilacqua is living in freedom, he was sentenced to 11 years but the lawyer appeals the sentence, anyway he could be imprisoned recently in order to wait the definitive sentence, it's very difficult to know all the sentences and at which point they are

PROVENZANO. GIOVANARDI: CUFFARO BEING SET UP
(AGI) - Rome, April 14 - According to the Minister for Relations with the Parliament Carlo Giovanardi (UDC), his party colleague and Sicily Governor Toto' Cuffaro is "being set up by the media", to link his name to that of Mafia superboss Bernardo Provenzano. "We ask - he said - that someone at the Palermo Attorney Office tell us who authorised the journalists to walk into Provenzano's hideout, and how is it possible that Mr Francesco Massaro said he found there a whole lot of Cuffaro electoral campaign flyers, then placing them somewhere else in the room, photgraph them and spread the news". "It's a despicable and unprecedented event, which proves that anything could have been introduced in Provenzano's hideout that night. Somebody obviously thought of setting him up".(AGI)

MAFIA: MURDER OF DE MAURO, ONLY SUSPECT TOTO' RIINA
(AGI) - Palermo, April 19 - Franca De Mauro, daughter of journalist Mauro De Mauro, gave evidence this morning at Palermo Court of Assizes in the trial for the murder of her father, Mauro, a journalist with L'Ora. The only accused is former Mafia boss Toto' Riina. To the questions of prosecuting magistrate Antonio Ingroia replied, Salvatore Mirto, husband of Franca De Mauro. Both were witnesses to the journalist's kidnapping on the afternoon of 3 September 1970. They saw the journalist being led to a car. From that time all trace of him was lost. The trial has been postponed to 19 May.

Mincchia!! The Mafias finest are regaining ground. The italian parliament made an ad personam law, to get the famous mafia judge Corradiono Carnevale back in business!!!
Here is the link:
[URL= http://www.abusi.it/legge_carnevale.htm] http://www.abusi.it/legge_carnevale.htm[/URL]

Sordid Chapter in Corleone's History Ends

By FRANCES D'EMILIO
Associated Press Writer

April 28, 2006, 2:56 PM EDT

CORLEONE, Sicily -- Decades before Mario Puzo borrowed its name for his novel about a ruthless Mafia family and Marlon Brando brought "The Godfather" to life with a throaty voice, Corleone -- the town, not the don -- had its own bloody story.

For generations, this medieval mountain town overlooking rolling fields where sheep and horses graze has been home to the murderous Corleonesi crime clan.

The capture this month of Bernardo Provenzano, reputed chieftain of the Corleonesi crime family and No. 1 boss of Cosa Nostra across Sicily, ended one shameful chapter in the town's life.

While breathing a sigh of relief over the arrest of "The Phantom of Corleone," many townspeople who share the steep, stony alleys with the wives, sons and daughters of Mafiosi expect another chapter in the town's real-life crime saga will inevitably be written.

But young people say they have grown up without the every day terror of slayings in the streets.

"In our basic, everyday lives, absolutely nothing changed" with the arrest, said Maria Laura Di Palermo, a 23-year-old Corleone native and university student.

"I grew up with an anti-Mafia culture," she said, referring to a rebellion, mainly by young people, against the sway of Cosa Nostra -- a movement sparked by the 1992 killings of Sicily's two top investigators of organized crime.

She was 10 in 1993, when Provenzano's predecessor as "boss of bosses," Salvatore "Toto" Riina, another Corleone native, was captured after 23 years as a fugitive. Then, students at Corleone's high school ran into the streets in joy and rallied behind a banner that read, "Finally."

Her mother, Maria Concetta Pinzolo Ventura, runs a bookstore filled with books about Sicilian food and the Mafia, including one volume with a photo of Brando on the cover.

At 53, she is old enough to remember the warnings of parents to come straight home after school or Saturday movie matinees. In the 1950s and 60s, Mafia rivalry in Corleone meant a killing nearly every day.

"You can image how happy we are" about Provenzano's capture after 43 years on the run, Pinzolo Ventura said. "We are very normal people. The name Provenzano only gave an ugly image to our town."

"If you lived here in town, you'd see we are normal people. The Mafia mix among us honest, kind, open people with a heart."

The son of a Corleone couple, Gino Felicetti, who grew up in England and returned some 15 years ago after marrying a woman from Corleone, said residents generally live in peace with the families of Mafia bosses.

"Provenzano's son, Angelo, is a very bright guy, very, very affable," said Felicetti. Both he and his brother, Paolo, who teaches Italian in Germany, are respected in town. Their mother, Provenzano's companion, "is very, very discreet, very polite," Felicetti said.

Felicetti works at Corleone's International Center for Anti-Mafia Documentation, which is associated with an anti-Mafia museum that opened in 2000.

Twice a week, the 40-year-old Felicetti takes U.S. tourists to see some of Corleone's 101 churches. In one hall decorated with photos of Mafia slayings, he speaks about Mafia folklore and reality.

His most recent tour group wanted to know if Provenzano's April 11 capture ended an era of Mafia domination here.

"Absolutely not," he said he told them.

"When the pope dies, you can always make another, and that way, the church stays on its feet," said a former Riina bodyguard, Gaspare Mutolo, who turned state's evidence.

Investigators say Cosa Nostra will eventually anoint a new "boss of bosses," and for the first time in more than 30 years, the new don may not be from Corleone. One contender is Matteo Messina Denaro, who comes from western Sicily and is considered the mob's No. 2. The other is Salvatore Lo Piccolo from Palermo, a fugitive who has been convicted of murder.

Felicetti estimated 10 to 15 percent of Corleone's population has Mafia ties. A smaller percentage, mainly Corleone's young people, are active and outspoken in the anti-Mafia movement.

But "it's not about numbers. It's about power, a power to intimidate that basically forces people into a corner," Felicetti said.

Many townspeople lead lives that would be of little benefit to the mob. "The Mafia can't take advantage of them, they don't need them," and so these Corleonesi largely lead lives that don't overlap with Cosa Nostra, Felicetti said.

According to Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor, Piero Grasso, Provenzano was able to stay in his latest countryside hideout, receiving food and clean clothes, because he had connections in town, including family, friends and others.

For many older people, the influence of the Mafia runs deep in Corleone, although few are willing to talk freely.

"If the Mafia were simply a criminal organization, it would have been already defeated," said Dino Paternostro, an author and labor organizer. "The Mafia has insinuated itself" into economic and political power, he said, sitting on a shady bench outside town hall.

One traditional moneymaker for Cosa Nostra has been extorting money from shopkeepers and other business owners, but people in Corleone said the town, likely because it is the Corleonesi clan's power base, was an exception.

"A lot of elderly people in Corleone think the era of protection is finished" with Provenzano's arrest, Felicetti said.

In Corleone's public gardens, old men, many wearing traditional Sicilian caps, filled the benches in a thicket of palm trees. They frowned at teenage boys and girls walking by arm-in-arm, sometimes kissing, and wearing midriff-revealing jeans -- a shocking change from the modesty of earlier generations.

Asked how Provenzano's arrest might change life in Corleone, they wagged their fingers and refused to give their names.

Brando's face stares down from "Godfather" movie posters in bars in Corleone. In one, out-of-towners sipped water and coffee and the bar man pressed a button to blast out music from the film.

"At your request," he said, though no one had asked for the music.

"Don Vito Corleone destroyed us," said Di Palermo, referring to Brando's character. "It's a stereotype which ruined us a little and will be difficult to eradicate."

Brother Carlo, a Franciscan friar walking barefoot on the cool terra cotta tiles of a monastery with a stunning view of Corleone, said developments like the anti-Mafia museum are more "theoretical than concrete."

"The mentality remains what it has been," he said. "Mafia domination, omerta (the code of silence) and fear," said the friar.

One of the bloodiest rounds of mob warfare in Corleone dates to the 1940s, after the Allied landings in Sicily broke the grip of Fascists on the island. Another explosion of murders was triggered by the slaying of Michele Navarro, a Mafia don who was one of the town's leading physicians.

From that warfare emerged Riina's predecessor, Luciano Liggio, who eventually died in prison. Riina's brutal fight to reach the top of Cosa Nostra left a trail of blood.

Provenzano believed the Mafia should keep a lower profile to avoid police crackdowns like the one that followed the killings of investigators Giovanni Borsellino and Paolo Falcone, whose names have been given to Corleone's main square.

A few years ago, another intersection in town was renamed: "Victims of the Mafia Square."

Published: 04/29/2006 12:00 AM (UAE)

Shopkeepers stage rebellion against Mafia
By Malcolm Moore, The Telegraph



Rome: A group of 100 shopkeepers in Palermo, the nerve centre of the Sicilian Mafia, have staged an unprecedented rebellion against the Cosa Nostra by refusing to pay it protection money.

Until now almost every business in the Sicilian capital has quietly paid the Mafia off or faced retribution.

But since Bernardo Provenzano, the 73-year-old "boss of all the bosses," was arrested two weeks ago after decades in hiding, the island's anti-Mafia movement has gathered momentum.

One mobster, Vittorio La Barbera, was sentenced last week to four years and eight months in jail after being caught on camera extracting a "pizzo," of £1,400 (Dh9,203) from one business.

The outcome of that trial has emboldened other shop and restaurant owners and 100 small and medium-sized businesses will appear at the University of Palermo next week to declare in public that they will no longer pay up.

"These are the first flames of a revolt," said the newspaper, La Repubblica.

"It is a small but great revolution in the capital of Sicily, where quarter after quarter has been suffocated by this tax."

On May 5, "Pizzo Free" day, the businesses, half of them run by men, half by women, will hold an open-air market for locals to show their solidarity with the movement.

"We are opening up an economic niche for clean business in Palermo," said Francesco Galante, a founder of a movement that is fighting the protection racket.

"Goodbye Pizzo" was started just under two years ago by five graduates who wanted to open a bar in Palermo. Realising they would be asked to pay a Mafia tithe, they decided instead to organise against the pizzo.

In Palermon begun today the process Agate at the "Corte d'assise d'appello", under the accused/defendants (correct inglish???), are Toto Riina and Binnu. Of course they are only taking part over a videoscreen (because of 41 bis). at the monitor top left: Binnu, bottom right: Toto Riina:

Mafia boss in court via video link

Barbara McMahon in Rome
Wednesday May 3, 2006

Guardian

Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano made his first public court appearance yesterday since his arrest after 43 years on the run, appearing via video link from a prison in Italy. He was seen sitting calmly behind a desk with court documents laid out in front of him, as prison officials stood by.
The 73-year-old "boss of all bosses" dressed in jeans and an open-necked shirt, communicated by telephone with his lawyer during the hearing. Judges at the appeals court in the Sicilian capital of Palermo granted his request that his image not be retransmitted outside the court. The proceedings were adjourned after an hour for technical reasons. Provenzano is accused along with dozens of other mafia members of crimes committed during the 80s and 90s that include murder, extortion and money laundering. Also appearing via video link from another prison was his predecessor Toto "the beast" Riina.

Yesterday's proceedings concentrated on the murder of textile company owner Libero Grassi, who was shot dead in 1991 after refusing to pay the pizzo, the Sicilian word for an extortion payment.

The victim's widow and two children quietly watched Provenzano during his appearance on the video screen and afterwards Pina Maisano said: "It's a great day for justice."

Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006

http://fm4.orf.at/steve/213187

@Tony are u also austrian, like me, or why do u know fm 4

can anybody help me?
Does anybody know the name of this corleonesi killer from the eighties?
i just remember that police agent Calogero Zucchetto also had to die, because he saw and identified him?



Merci, Thanks, Gracías, Grazie, Danke, Hvala

Striker arrested over drugs bust
From correspondents in Rome
May 12, 2006

FORMER Italy international and Crystal Palace striker Michele Padovano has been arrested on drug offences.

Padovano has also been sacked from his job as general director of fourth division side Alexandria, the Corriere dello sport reported overnight.

Padovano, who also played for Napoli and Juventus, is being held in Cuneo prison, in the north of Italy, in connection with a bust involving 2300kg of drugs said to be worth 14 million euros ($23 million).

Club officials at Alessandria, 80km from Turin, immediately decided to fire him.

The 39-year-old first shot to fame in 1990 when Napoli was among the nation's top clubs.

Following brief stays at Genoa and Reggio Emilia, he joined Juventus in 1995-96, where he stayed for two seasons before joining Crystal Palace and then Metz in France where he finished his career.

Padovano has two international caps dating back to the 1998 World Cup qualifying campaign when he was called up by coach Cesare Maldini against Moldova and Poland.

MAFIA: FINANCE POLICE FREEZES 17.5 MLN OF ENTREPRENEUR
(AGI) - Palermo, May 13 - The Finance Police of Palermo has frozen the assets, worth over 17 mln euro, of entrepreneur Vincenzo Piazza, aged 75, previously condemned for criminal association with the mafia, with a ruling passed by the Court of Palermo on 10 June 1997. The asset-freezing was ordered by the Palermo Court of Appeals, which accepted the request of the DDA. Piazza is considered to be close to the Della Noce clan, and his relations with the mafia were mentioned by turncoats Calogero Ganci and Francesco Paolo Anzelmo. Among the seized assets (worth 17,550,000 euro) are some villas in Pozzillo and Cinisi, not far from Palermo, registered under his wife's name. Today's operation is yet another bad blow for the Mafia, after yesterday's freezing of assets worth 30 mln euro, including a horse-races track, owned by entrepreneur Ottavio Lo Cricchio, under investigation for association with the mafia, in particular with the Vitale di Partinico clan. (AGI) .
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PROVENZANO: ON VIDEO IN THE TRIAL, BUT DOES NOT SPEAK
(AGI) - Palermo, May 17 - New videoconference broadcast of mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano today to attend the hearing for the "Grande Mandamento" trial underway in front of the third penal section of the Palermo Court, with 9 defendants standing trial as supporters of the mafia boss. As in the previous occasions, Provenzano did not speak out but rather spoke to his lawyer, Francesco Marasa', on the phone. The judges have decided to allow all unrepeatable acts and service reports presented by investigators which, for over a year, have been following the activities of mafia members in Villabate and Bagheria, who took care of the last stage of the mafia boss's hiding, before he was arrested April 11 this year. In addition to Provenzano, only Nicolo' Eucaliptus was present at the trial, considered to be an important member of the mafia in Bagheria. The trial has been adjourned to May 31, when the Maj. Giovanni Sozzo of the Carabinieri's ROS will be heard.
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Italian justice minister linked to mafia inquiry

John Hooper in Rome
Thursday May 18, 2006
The Guardian

Italy's new leader, Romano Prodi, named as his justice minister yesterday a controversial politician linked to a confessed associate of the mafia. Clemente Mastella, a former Christian Democrat from near Naples, is also known for criticising judges.

The tiny party he leads holds the balance of power in the new parliament and if Mr Prodi had failed to give him a senior job in cabinet the future of his centre-left government would have been in danger.

Mr Mastella was questioned this year at Italy's National Anti-mafia Directorate in Rome about his relations with Francesco Campanella, who confessed to helping the mafia's then-fugitive boss, Bernardo Provenzano. In July 2000 Mr Mastella was a witness at Mr Campanella's wedding. Mr Mastella was not a suspect and has not been accused of any offence.

Mr Campanella, who sat on the town council of Villabate, a mob-ridden town outside Palermo, has confessed to providing vital assistance to the mafia's fugitive "boss of bosses", Provenzano, who was seized last month after 42 years on the run. In 2001 he used his official position to supply Cosa Nostra's top "godfather" with an identity card so he could travel abroad for medical treatment.

Another witness at Mr Campanella's wedding was Salvatore Cuffaro, the governor of Sicily and a former political associate of Mr Mastella, who is on trial for aiding the mafia. He denies wrongdoing.

Mr Campanella's role in helping Provenzano, who travelled to France for a prostate operation, was brought to light by an informer. The town councillor was put under investigation and, faced with the threat of jail, himself began collaborating with the authorities.

At a heavily guarded courtroom, his features hidden by a balaclava, Mr Campanella has since testified extensively about his contacts with the mafia and the mafia's involvement with politicians.

Mr Mastella is one of the most outspoken and agile figures on the Italian political scene. Last year he criticised an inquiry into alleged corruption on the left and once said that prosecutors looking into claims of links between local government and organised crime in Naples had created a "climate of terror".

In the past 12 years the 59-year-old Mr Mastella has helped found no less than four parties. A minister in Silvio Berlusconi's first government in 1994, he abandoned the right in 1998 to set up a party of his own and then joined up with the left.

Last year, his latest party, the Union of Democrats for Europe, threatened to leave Mr Prodi's alliance because it felt it was being sidelined. It won just 1.4% of the vote at last month's general election. But since its support is concentrated around Naples it can deliver more seats than parties with bigger, but more evenly distributed, electorates. Crucially, Mr Mastella's supporters occupy three of the 315 elected seats in the senate, where the centre-left has a majority of only one.

Mr Prodi's 26-strong cabinet leans noticeably to the left and includes Italy's first ex-communist foreign minister, Massimo D'Alema. The country's shaky finances have been entrusted to an independent minister, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, a former executive board member of the European Central Bank.

Italian mafia boss gets 30 years in jail

Naples, Italy - Paolo Di Lauro, a reputed top boss of the Camorra crime syndicate, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, Italian court officials said Thursday.

Di Lauro, 52, was convicted in a courtroom in Naples on charges of Mafia association, extortion and drug trafficking for the period from 1991 to 2000.

The sentence on Wednesday followed his arrest in September 2005. He had been on Italy's list of most wanted dangerous fugitives since 2002.

In Italy, a conviction is not final until all the appeals have been exhausted.

Di Lauro is said to be the head of a criminal clan involved in a vicious turf war with a breakaway group that sparked dozens of murders in the Naples area in 2004.

The violence was believed to be over the control of drug trafficking, officials said. The leader of the breakaway group, Raffaele Amato, was also arrested in Spain in February 2005.

The Camorra, the equivalent of the Sicilian Mafia for the Naples Area, controls drug and arms trafficking, prostitution, extortion and illegal betting rackets. - Sapa-AP

moribundo, the man in the picture you put before is Mario Prestifilippo

No, no
i found it out, in the meantime.
the guy, who posted it (elswhere) told me!
this is a totally unkown foto of pino greco, right from his act(???) at the police.

At the beginning i also thought ist was mario!
But thank you for helping me!
Grazie

Are you sure? because in my italian books it's signed as Prestifilippo picture

i´m not shure. Maybe you´re right.
i first also thought it was mario! But the guy, who posted it, said it was
greco, and he is generally very well informed.
But i already thought i saw it in some book, signed as Prestifilippo picture.
which books to you mean?

saludos

Thanks to Felice i know him as Mario prestifilipo, but i think Felice had also contacts with the germans, so i don't know if he provided the pictures, or German Borgata

Funny enough?? Moribundo


Who was the dead one on his scooter, you think??

first instance flashed through me Mario Prestifilippo

"don't know" for sure this all

respects

@ puparo which scooter?

The only foto with a scooter i can think of right now, is the one with this scooter:


This one would be a lowlife, a petty criminal. photographed by the famous Franco Zecchin.
Here is a website with all his fotos (also his two mafia series!!!!!)

This foto is called:
Palermo, 1982. Murder of Domenico Di Fatta.

40 ARRESTS IN ANTIMAFIA OPERATION IN BARI
(AGI) - Rome, May 27 - A major anti-mafia operation is currently underway in Bari where State police officers are carrying out orders of arrest and searches issued against the members of the leading local clan, headed by the Capriati family. The police officers which are taking part in the operation belong to a number of anti-mafia operational units specialised in the capture of mafia absconders. Today's operation, which started early in the morning, is the result of incessant investigations by Bari's flying squad who managed to collect a substantial amount of evidence against 40 members of the clan suspected of mafia association, usury, extortion, murders and drug trafficking. The investigations shed light on a number of crimes committed in Bari's historical centre (20 attempted murders and 5 murders committed between 2001 and 2005 as part of an all-out war between the Capriati and Striscuglio clans). During the operation, the State police seized 10 motorcycles, 30 cars, 3 large estate lots, 13 flats, one villa, one shop, one pizzeria, one supermarket, 4 service companies, 95 12,000 sq. m. car parks for as much as 50 million euro. The Capriati clan is one of the most influential in region Apulia. Although it has always been independent, it often worked jointly with the strongest groups of the so-called "Sacra Corona". Boss Antonio Capriati, who was 'ushered' into the mafia world by Raffaele Cutolo, was also under investigation in connection with the fire that seriously damaged Bari's Petruzzelli theatre. Since long, the Public Security Department has started a series of measures aimed at countering mafia association in all its forms. Today's operation is the latest in a series of operations which are expected to dramatically reduce the influence of mafia clans and their financial resources. The idea is that by reducing mafia clans' economic strength, their appeal to prospective associates would decrease.
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Moribundo

"perdenti"


11 August 1983 they kill Diego Di Fatta.

will bet they were family

respects

The book where I saw it is "Cosa Nostra Album" by Felice Cavallaro

@Caramelo
The guy, who said this was greco sent me an article from the gazetta antimafia,
written by judge scarpinato (ex-antimafia pool, you may know him), in this article the foto is
signed with Pino Greco!
He also said, that he first got the foto from an agente in Palermo.

I don´t know, which source is right!
If you want that article, email me through my account, i will send you it.

@Puparo
will bet also. maybe he wanted to avenge his brother/relative. That brought many
people death (young inzerillo, young atria.....)


saludos
moribundo

I doubt he's Greco because the other Greco's pictures seem different, as the one posted on Gangsterinc Greco's profile, anyway I'm not 100% sure after you told me about that guy

Hello Boys! I`ve a little Problem. Who is this mafioso? I know, he`s from Messina Province, but i don`t know, whats Town. Help me, please!

@zuchetto
i got the name from a guy in an austrian mafia guestbook:
Cesare Bontempo Scavo, capo di coca Bontempo Scavo in Tortorici!
should be in jail!

@caramelo
i´m pretty shure that this foto shows in fact pino greco. They guy (which gave me also the info above), said he got the foto also from a police agente, who confirmed it was Greco.
As i said this foto, as greco foto also occurs in an article written by antimafia judge scarpinato, also a man who knows, what you talking about.
But anyway thanx for your help in that subjects
saludos

Great!
Thanx, Moribundo! I have more Photo and i don`t know who are this People... Later, OK?