Does anyone know much about what goes on in Sicily currently? I am finding it hard to find any info on murders the mafia has committed over the last 5 years or so. I know things are much quieter now than the 1990s, but how common are mafia murders in Sicily today? Would there be a few every year for example?

yes but the mafia is not killing anymore procurators or policemen today, there are murders only within cosa nostra

I'm sure I'm missing some but here are a few Mafia murders in Sicily over the past 5 years -

Nicolo Ingarao

Giuseppe Lo Baido

Antonino Giambrone

Giovanni Bonanno

Giuseppe and Giancarlo Riina (not related to former boss Salvatore Riina but involved in the mobbed up construction business).


On a site note, a poster (Dutch) recently posted the Real Deal:

The journalist Franco Castaldo, based in Agrigento and the editor of the weekly Grandangolo, claims he has a preview of a report on the Sicilian Mafia by the Italian Antimafia Commission that is about to be released (I checked, but it is not available yet on the site of Antimafia Commission).

http://www.accadeinitalia.it/images/stor...o%2031-2011.pdf

Highlights:

• Cosa Nostra has about 3,500-4,000 made members and about 8,000 'fiancheggiatori' (supporters).

• In Western Sicily there are currently 29 mandamenti and 94 mafia families. The province of Trapani has 4 mandamenti and 17 families with some 720 members.

• Through this network Cosa Nostra controls some 200,000-300,000 votes during elections.

• There is currently no functioning Commission. The ‘regent’ of the province of Trapani is Matteo Messina Denaro and in the province of Agrigento it was Giuseppe Falsone, before his arrest in Marseilles recently. In Palermo, historically the most important, the leadership situation is fluid, due to a series of arrests and a failed attempt to constitute a Commission. The Mafia is trying to re-establish links with Cosa Nostra in the US.

• The power of Cosa Nostra is still based on the control over the territory.

• Cosa Nostra is weakened after the period of open contrast with the State through bomb attackes and the arrest of many historical bosses. The new bosses lack quality.

• With the arrest of Riina and the takeover by Provenzano, Cosa Nostra has abandoned the strategy to contrast the State, but has 'retreated' onto its traditional activities: extortion and skimming of public contracts (building contractors pay 3% 'pizzo' or the so-called 'messe a posto', on public work contracts or need to employ people or contract companies indicated by the Mafia).

• Cosa Nostra has a grip on the cement industry.

• The pizzo is not the main revenue for Cosa Nostra but it serves to confirm their control of territory and the basic maintenance of the families, the incarcerated and their families.

• The main revenue is from the 'messe a posto', the control of videopoker machines and drug trafficking.

Yeah, they've been pretty hurt in the past few years. There's no need to attrach more attention. They're focusing on making money.
But that's just for high profile killings (journalists, cops, politicians).

La Cosa Nostra has plummed in the rankings of "Italian Top Gang", now its most likely #3 after 'Ndrangheta and Camorra.

La Cosa Nostra has plummed in the rankings of "Italian Top Gang", now its most likely #3 after 'Ndrangheta and Camorra.

i don't think so, the 3 bigs have the same power today

The 'Ndrangheta is certainly the top Italian OC group. Couldn't really say who would be #2 between the Cosa Nostra or Camorra. The power of the Cosa Nostra has certainly declined over the last 20 years but, as always, the Camorra has problems with internal fighting and being less organized.

i think worldwide they have the same power, camorra and ndrangheta are the top in europe and the sicilians are the top in north america
concerning italy only ndrangheta is probably the top since it controls large part of north italy, cosa nostra 2 and camorra3

You're right Nicky. Its defintely hard trying to dig up the recent murder cases at all, let alone "emminent corpses".
m2w's right in that its very much a thing of the past for them, the high profile and wanton murders. The guys in charge these days seem to have cottoned to the "too many bodies = bad for business" approach. Im not saying they dont still kill guys, just that they must think it through a lot more these days, and do it in less brazen ways.

I guess they learned from the fact that a large number of their previous generation are still serving life sentences for ordering all those murders, using it as a first, last and most common resort to any situation. (He WHAT?!? Stole MY tomatoes?!? I WANT THAT SOB DEAD.")

There was this murder in 07, but before that the last big hit I can think of was one of Tomasso Buscetta's son's in 95. Sure there's more, the

I was gonna post this in a new thread, but its relevant to whats going on at least.

Cant believe I missed this; Gaetano Riina, brother of Toto, was arrested around the start of last month. He was the Corleone boss. He actually looks meaner then his brother.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...n-arrested.html

And Franesco Marino Mannoia recently returned to Italy and apparently attempted suicide. He is a pentito that once belonged to the Santa Maria de Gesu Family, the same one that Roberto Settinari is alleged to have been representing in America before his recent troubles in Florida.

There was a July bust in Messina that saw some 40 arrests. Amngst the various extortion, drug dealing and money laundering charges there were charges of animal abuse, relating to the alleged mistreatment of mafiosi owned racehorses.

http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2011/07/22/visualizza_new.html_783126101.html

But like you observed, the murder charges are conspicuously absent in recent years.

Whoa, I took way too long to type up my post. I had Lo Baido, but there's a number of others right there. Fascinating stuff, Ivy.

Ive found that taking the time to Google translate Italian news can be pretty useful.

N

Nope Nicky's right. The Ndrangheta is worldwide. Cosa Nostra couldnt match them in scope, power and profits internationally.

in italy there are mafia murders but they are within the mafia so often they are not big news even nationally if there are not slaughters or so
cosa nostra and camorra are worldwide too although ndrangheta is probably the top today

Thanks for the info guys. Ivy do you think that membership estimate of 3500-4000 is a fairly constant number or one of decline?

The Cosa Nostra still yields power in Sicily of course, but it is less feared and present across the rest of Italy. I'd say that in Italy and rest of Europe, the Ndrangheta and Camorra have more power.

Traditionally, the Cosa Nostra has always been very strong in NYC and Montreal, and to a lesser extent continues to thrive there. THe Ndrangheta now oversees most of Canada and has strong links to the American LCN.

i think a more correct estimate for cosa nostra is about 5.000 made members and 50.000 associates

in italy cosa nostra today could be behind ndrangheta but not camorra, concerning north italy the sicilians are stronger camorra is stronger in central italy but in italy as a whole (included their strongholds sicily campania) i think cosa nostra is stronger anyway than camorra

Has anyone read gamorrah? It is a damn good book and rides the exact same timeline on the stories and articles posted on mafia-news.com...

Yeah that really is a good book, though I feel Saviano sometimes overstates the Camorra's reach and power.

Depends on what estimate you go with.

For instance, the FBI and the 2000 Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment have cited 5,000 Cosa Nostra members. But Letizia Paoli, for example, has put it at around 3,500 members.

Incidentally, here is the Mafia murder count from 1990 to 2003:

1990 - 150
1991 - 253
1992 - 200
1993 - 85
1994 - 90
1995 - 88
1996 - 66
1997 - 34
1998 - 35
1999 - 28
2000 - 13
2001 - 20
2002 - 11
2003 - 10

Good post, I guess its similar to America where it isn't beneficial to be carrying out numerous mob murders anymore.

It seems only Montreal has been ripe with violence and murders lately. Not even NYC and other typical mob spots have become as violent and unpredictable as Montreal is.

The Sicilian mob is in a state of restructuring and is returning to it's old ways. No more fedoras and flashy suits.

The ndrangheta has been and continues to be much less visible.

There's been about as many mob hits in NY over the same time period but obviously not in as quick a succession and not over the same thing.

concerning the mafia murder count it's interesting to notice like the murders downsized under provenzano leadership after the arrest of bagarella in 1995

Even before that was the dramatic decrease in murders after Riina was captured in January 1993. They went from 200 in 1992 to less than half that the following year.

IVY Did you chase him, when he went on the run?

http://www.libera.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/87

1893
Emanuele Notarbartolo.

1896
Emanuela Sansone.

1905
Luciano Nicoletti.

1906
Andrea Orlando.

1909
Joe Petrosìno.

1911
Lorenzo Panepinto.

1914
Mariano Barbato.
Giorgio Pecoraro.

1915
Bernardino Verro.

1916
Giorgio Gennaro.

1916
Giovanni Zangàra.
Costantino Stella.
Giuseppe Rumore.
Giuseppe Monticciolo.
Alfonso Cànzio.

1920
Nicolò Alongi.
Paolo Li Puma.
Croce Di Gangi.
Paolo Mirmina.
Giovanni Orcel.
Stefano Caronìa.

1921
Pietro Ponzo.
Vito Stassi.
Giuseppe Cassarà.
Vito Cassarà.
Giuseppe Compagna.

1922
Domenico Spatola.
Mario Spatola.
Pietro Spatola.
Paolo Spatola.
Sebastiano Bonfiglio.
Antonino Scuderi.

1924
Antonino Ciolìno.

1944
Santi Milisenna.
Andrea Raja.

1945
Calogero Comaianni.
Nunzio Passafiume.
Filippo Scimone.
Calcedonio Catalano.
Agostino D'alessandro.
Calogero Cicero.
Fedele De Francisca.
Michele Di Miceli.
Mario Paoletti.
Rosario Pagano.
Giuseppe Scalìa.
Giuseppe Puntarello.

1946
Angelo Lombardi.
Vittorio Epifani.
Vitangelo Cinquepalmi.
Imerio Piccini.
Antonino Guarisco.
Marina Spinelli.
Giuseppe Mìsuraca.
Mario Mìsuraca.
Gaetano Guarino.
Pino Camilleri.
Giovanni Castiglione.
Girolamo Scaccia.
Giuseppe Biondo.
Giovanni Santangelo.
Giuseppe Santangelo.
Vincenzo Santangelo.
Giovanni Severino.
Paolo Farina.
Nicolò Azoti.
Fiorentino Bonfiglio.
Mario Boscone.
Francesco Sassano.
Emanuele Greco.
Mario spampinato.
Mario La Brocca.
Vincenzo amenduni.
Vittorio Levico.

1947
Accursio Miraglia.
Pietro Macchiarella.
Nunzio Sansone.
Emanuele Busellini.
Margherita Clesceri.
Giovanni Grifò.
Giorgio Cusenza.
Castrense Intravàia.
Vincenza La Fata.
Serafino Lascàri.
Giovanni Megna.
Francesco Vicari.
Vito Allotta.
Giuseppe Di Maggio.
Filippo Di Salvo.
Vincenzo La Rocca.
Vincenza Spina.
Provvidenza Greco.
Michelangelo Salvia.
Giuseppe Casàrrubea.
Vincenzo Lo Iacono.
Giuseppe Manìaci.
Calogero Cajola.
Vito Pipitone.
Luigi Geronazzo.

1948
Epifanio Li Puma.
Placido Rizzotto.
Giuseppe Letizia.
Calogero Cangelosi.
Marcantonio Giacalone.
Antonio Giacalone.
Antonio Di Salvo.
Nicola Messina.
Celestino Zapponi.
Giovanni Tasquier.

1949
Carlo Gulino.
Francesco Gulino.
Candeloro Catanese.
Michele Marinaro.
Carmelo Agnone.
Quinto Reda.
Carmelo Lentini.
Pasquale Marcone.
Armando Loddo.
Sergio Mancini.
Carlo Antonio pabusa.
Gabriele Palandrani.
Giovan Battista Aloe.
Ilario Russo.
Giovanni Calabrese.
Giuseppe Fiorenza.
Salvatore Messina.
Francesco Butifar.

1951
Antonio Sanginiti.

1952
Filippo Intile.

1955
Salvatore Carnevale.
Giuseppe Spagnuolo.

1957
Pasquale Almerico.
Antonino Pollari.

1958
Vincenzo Di Salvo.
Vincenzo Savoca.

1959
Anna Prestigiacomo.
Giuseppina Savoca.
Vincenzo Pecoraro.
Antonino Pecoraro.

1960
Antonino Damanti.
Cosimo Cristina.
Paolo Bongiorno.
Antonino giannola.

1961
Paolino Riccobono.
Giacinto Puleo.

1962
Enrico Mattei.

1963
Giuseppe Tesauro.
Pietro cannizzaro.
Mario Malausa.
Silvio Corrao.
Calogero Vaccaro.
Pasquale Nuccio.
Eugenio Altomare.
Giorgio Ciacci.
Marino Fardelli.

1966
Carmelo Battaglia.

1967
Giuseppe Piani.
Nicola Mignogna.

1968
Francesco Pignataro.
Giuseppe Burgio.
Salvatore Surolo.

1969
Orazio Costantino.
Giovanni Domé.

1970
Mauro De Mauro.

1971
Pietro Scaglione.
Antonino Lorusso.
Vincenzo Riccardelli.

1972
Giovanni Spampinato.
Giovanni Ventra.
Domenico Cannata.
Paolo Di Maio.

1974
Angelo Sorino.
Emanuele Riboli.

1975
Calogero Morreale.
Gaetano Cappiello.
Francesco Ferlaino.
Domenico Facchineri.
Francesco Facchineri.
Tullio De Micheli.

1976
Gerardo D'Arminio.
Giuseppe Muscarelli.
Caterina Liberti.
Salvatore Falcetta.
Carmine Apuzzo.
Salvatore Longo.
Salvatore Buscemi.
Francesco Vinci.
Mario Ceretto.
Alberto Capua.
Vincenzo Ranieri.
Vincenzo Macrì.
fortunato furore.

1977
Rocco Gatto.
Stefano Condello.
Vincenzo Caruso.
pasquale polverino.
antonio custra.
Giuseppe Russo.
Filippo Costa.
Attilio Bonincontro.
Donald Mackay.
Mariangela Passiatore.

1978
Ugo Triolo.
Giuseppe Impastato.
Antonio Esposito Ferraioli.
Salvatore Castelbuono.
Gaetano Longo.
Paolo Giorgetti.
Pasquale Cappuccio.

1979
Alfonso Sgroi.
Filadelfio Aparo.
Mario Francese.
Michele Reina.
Giorgio Ambrosoli.
Boris Giuliano.
Calogero Di Bona.
Cesare Terranova.
Lenin Mancuso.
Giovanni Bellissima.
Salvatore Bologna.
Domenico Marrara.
Vincenzo Russo.
Giuliano Giorgio.
Lorenzo Brunetti.
Antonino Tripodo.
Rocco Giuseppe Barillà.
Carmelo di giorgio.
Primo Perdoncini.

1980
Piersanti Mattarella.
Giuseppe Valarioti.
Emanuele Basile.
Giannino Losardo.
Pietro Cerulli.
Gaetano Costa.
Carmelo Jannì.
Domenico Beneventano.
Marcello Torre.
Vincenzo Abate.
Giuseppe Giovinazzo.
Ciro Rossetti.
Filomena morlando.

1981
Vito Ievolella.
Sebastiano Bosio.
Leopoldo Gassani.
Giuseppe Grimaldi.
Vincenzo Mulè.
Domenico Francavilla.
Mariano Virone.
Angelo Di Bartolo.
Giuseppe Salvia.
Mariano Mellone.

1982
Luigi D'alessio.
Rosa Visone.
Salvatore Stallone.
Antonio Fontana.
Nicolò Piombino.
Antonio Salzano.
Pio La Torre.
Rosario Di Salvo.
Gennaro Musella.
Giuseppe Lala.
Domenico Vecchio.
Rodolfo Buscemi.
Matteo Rizzuto.
Silvano Franzolin.
Salvatore Raiti.
Giuseppe Di Lavore.
Antonino Burrafato.
Salvatore Nuvoletta.
Antonio Ammaturo.
Pasquale Paola.
Paolo Giaccone.
Vincenzo Spinelli.
Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa.
Emanuela Setti Carraro.
Domenico Russo.
Calogero Zucchetto.
Carmelo Cerruto.
Simonetta Lamberti.
Giuliano Pennacchio.
Andrea Mormile.
Luigi Cafiero.
Antimo Graziano.
Gennaro De Angelis.
Antonio Valenti.
Luigi Di Barca.
Annamaria Esposito.
Antonio De Rosa.
Francesco Borrelli.

1983
Giangiacomo Ciaccio Montalto.
Pasquale Mandato.
Salvatore Pollara.
Mario D'aleo.
Giuseppe Bommarito.
Pietro Morici.
Bruno Caccia.
Rocco Chinnici.
Salvatore Bartolotta.
Mario Trapassi.
Stefano Li Sacchi.
Sebastiano Alonghi.
Francesco Buzziti.
Francesco Imposimato.
Domenico Celiento.
Antonio Cristiano.
Giuseppe Francese.
Nicandro Izzo.
Fabio Cortese.
Salvatore Musarò.
Ottavio Andrioli.
Gioacchino Crisafulli.

1984
Giuseppe Fava.
Renata Fonte.
crescenzo casillo.
giovanni calabrò.
Cosimo Quattrocchi.
Francesco Quattrocchi.
Marcello Angelini.
Salvatore Schimmenti.
Giovanni Catalanotti.
Antonio Federico.
Paolo Canale.
Giovanbattista Altobelli.
Lucia Cerrato.
Anna Maria Brandi.
Anna De Simone.
Giovanni De Simone.
Nicola De Simone.
Luisella Matarazzo.
Maria Luigia Morini.
Federica Taglialatela.
Abramo Vastarella.
Pier Francesco Leoni.
Susanna Cavalli.
Angela Calvanese.
Carmine Moccia.
Valeria Moratello.
Franco Puzzo.
Michele Brescia.
Santo Calabrese.
Antioco Cocco.
Vincenzo Vento.
Pietro Busetta.
Salvatore Squillace.

1985
Pietro Patti.
Giuseppe Mangano.
Gioacchino Taglialatela.
Sergio Cosmai.
Giovanni Carbone.
Barbara Rizzo Asta.
Giuseppe Asta.
Salvatore Asta.
Beppe Montana.
Antonino Cassarà.
Roberto Antiochia.
Giuseppe Spada.
Enrico Monteleone.
Giancarlo Siani.
Biagio Siciliano.
Giuditta Milella.
Carmine Tripodi.
Graziella Campagna.
Morello Alcamo.
Giuseppe Macheda.
Roberto Parisi.
Mario diana.

1986
Paolo Bottone.
Giuseppe Pillari.
Filippo Gebbia.
Antonio Morreale.
Francesco Alfano.
Antonio Pianese.
Vittorio Esposito.
Salvatore Benigno.
Claudio Domino.
Filippo Salsone.
Nicola Ruffo.
Antonio Sabia.
Giovanni Giordano.
Nunziata Spina.
Antonio Bertuccio.
Francesco Prestia.
Domenica De Girolamo.
luigi staiàno.
mario ferrillo.
salvatore ledda.
Giovanni Garcea.

1987
Giuseppe Rechichi.
Rosario Iozia.
Giuseppe Cutroneo.
Rosario Montalto.
Sebastiano Morabito.
Antonio Civinini.
Carmelo Iannò.
Carmelo Ganci.
Luciano Pignatelli.
Giovanni Di Benedetto.
Cosimo Aleo.
aniello giordano.
Michele Piromalli.



1988
Giuseppe Insalaco.
Giuseppe Montalbano.
Natale Mondo.
Donato Boscia.
Francesco Megna.
Alberto Giacomelli.
Antonino Saetta.
Stefano Saetta.
Mauro Rostagno.
Luigi Ranieri.
Carmelo Zaccarello.
Girolamo Marino.
Aniello Cordasco.
Giulio Capilli.
Pietro Ragno.
Abed Manyami.
Raffaele Antonio Talarico.
Michele virga.

1989
Francesco Crisopulli.
Giuseppe Caruso.
Francesco Pepi.
Marcella Tassone.
Nicola D'Antrassi.
Vincenzo Grasso.
Paolo Vinci.
Salvatore Incardona.
Antonino Agostino.
Ida Castellucci.
Grazia Scimè.
Domenico Calviello.
Anna Maria Cambria.
Carmela Pannone.
Pietro Giro.
Donato Cappetta.
Calogero Loria.
Francesco Longo.
Giovanbattista Tedesco.
Colin Winchester.
Giacomo Catalano.
Giuseppe Giovinazzo.
Pietro Polara.
Nicolina Biscozzi.
Giuseppe Tallarita.
Pasquale Primerano.
Pasquale Miele.
Giuseppe Tizian.

1990
Nicola Gioitta Iachino.
Emanuele Piazza.
Giuseppe Tragna.
Massimo Rizzi.
Giovanni Bonsignore.
Antonio Marino.
Rosario Livatino.
Alessandro Rovetta.
Francesco Vecchio.
Andrea Bonforte.
Giovanni Trecroci.
Saverio Purita.
Angelo Carbotti.
Domenico Catalano.
Maria Marcella.
Vincenzo Miceli.
Elisabetta Gagliardi.
Giuseppe Orlando.
Michele Arcangelo Tripodi.
Pietro Caruso.
Nunzio Pandolfi.
Arturo Caputo.
Roberto Ticli.
Mario Greco.
Rosario Sciacca.
Giuseppe Marnalo.
Francesco Oliviero.
Cosimo Distante.
Angelo Raffaele Longo.
Cataldo D'Ippolito.
Raffaela Scordo.
Calogero La Piana.
Emilio Taccarita.
Antonio Nugnes.
Feliciello pasquale.

1991
Valentina Guarino.
Angelica Pirtoli.
Giuseppe Sceusa.
Salvatore Sceusa.
Vincenzo Leonardi.
Antonio Carlo Cordopatri.
Angelo Riccardo.
demetrio quattrone.
Andrea Savoca.
Domenico Randò.
Sandra Stranieri.
Antonio Scopelliti.
Libero Grassi.
Fabio De Pandi.
Giuseppe Aliotto.
Antonio Rampino.
Silvana Foglietta.
Salvatore D'addario.
Renato Lio.
Giuseppe Leone.
Francesco Tramonte.
Pasquale Cristiano.
Stefano Siragusa.
Alberto Varone.
Felice Dara.
Vincenzo Salvatori.
Serafino Ogliastro.
Vito Provenzano.
Giuseppe Grimaldi.
Salvatore Tieni.
Nicola Guerriero.
Giuseppe Sorrenti.
Antonio Valente.
Nunziante Scibelli.
Vincenzo Giordano.
Salvatore Vincenzo Surdo.
Gaspare Palmieri.
Ignazio Aloisi.

1992
Salvatore Aversa.
Lucia Precenzano.
Paolo Borsellino.
Antonio Russo.
Antonio Spartà.
Salvatore Spartà.
Vincenzo Spartà.
Fortunato Arena.
Claudio Pezzuto.
Salvatore Mineo.
Alfredo Agosta.
Giuliano Guazzelli.
Giovanni Falcone.
Francesca Morvillo.
Rocco Di Cillo.
Antonio Montinaro.
Vito Schifani.
Paolo Borsellino.
Agostino Catalano.
Eddie Cosina.
Emanuela Loi.
Vincenzo Li Muli.
Claudio Traìna.
Rita Àtria.
Paolo Ficalòra.
Luigi Sàpio.
Egidio Campaniello.
Giorgio Villàn.
Pasquale Di Lorenzo.
Giovanni Panunzio.
Gaetano Giordano.
Giuseppe Borsellino.
Saverio Cirrincione.
Antonio Tamborino.
Mauro Maniglio.
Raffaele Vitiello.
Emanuele Saùna.
Antonino Siragusa.
Lucio Stifani.
Giovanni Lizzio.
Antonio Di Bona.

1993
Beppe Alfano.
Adolfo Cartisano.
Pasquale Campanello.
Vincenzo d'Anna.
Vincenzo Vitale.
Gennaro Falco.
Nicola Remondino.
Domenico Nicolò Pandolfo.
Maurizio Estate.
Fabrizio Nencioni.
Angela Fiume.
Nadia Nencioni.
Caterina Nencioni.
Dario Capolicchio.
Carlo La Catena.
Stefano Picerno.
Sergio Pasotto.
Alessandro Ferrari.
Moussafir Driss.
Don Giuseppe Puglisi.
Raffaele Di Mercurio.
Andrea Castelli.
Angelo Carlisi.
Riccardo Volpe.
Antonino Vassallo.
Francesco Nazzaro.
Loris Giazzon.
Giorgio Vanoli.
Giovanni Mileto.
Luigi Iannotta.

1994
Vincenzo Garofalo.
Antonino Fava.
Don Giuseppe Diana.
Ilaria Alpi.
Miran Hrovatin.
Enrico Incognito.
Luigi Bodenza.
Ignazio Panepinto.
Maria Teresa Pugliese.
Giovanni Simonetti.
Salvatore Bennici.
Calogero Panepinto.
Francesco Maniscalco.
Nicholas Green.
Melchiorre Gallo.
Giuseppe Russo.
Cosimo Fabio Mazzola.
Girolamo Palazzolo.
Leonardo Canciari.
Liliana Caruso.
Agata Zucchero.
Leonardo Santoro.
Palmina Scamardella.
Antonio Novella .
Francesco Aloi.
Francesco Bruno.
Angelo Calabrò.
Saverio liardo.

1995
Francesco Brugnano.
Giuseppe Di Matteo.
Francesco Marcone.
Serafino Famà.
Gioacchino Costanzo.
Peter Iwule Onjedeke.
Fortunato Correale.
Antonino Buscemi.
Giuseppe Montalto.
Giuseppe Cilia.
Giuseppe Giammone.
Giovanni Carbone.
Claudio Manco.
Antonio Brandi.
Antonio Montalto.
Epifania Cocchiara.
Giammatteo Sole .
Genovese Pagliuca.
Pietro Sanua.
Pierantonio sandri.

1996
Francesco Tammone.
Giuseppe Puglisi.
Anna Maria Torno.
Giovanni Attardo.
Davide Sannino.
Santa Puglisi.
Salvatore Botta.
Salvatore Frazzetto.
Giacomo Frazzetto.
Maria Antonietta Savona.
Riccardo Salerno.
Gioacchino Bisceglia.
Rosario Ministeri.
Calogero Tramùta.
Pasquale Salvatore Magrì.
Celestino Fava.
Antonino Moio.
Raffaele Pastore.

1997
Giuseppe La Franca.
Ciro Zirpoli.
Giulio Castellino.
Agata Azzolina.
Raffaella Lupoli.
Silvia Ruotolo.
Angelo Bruno.
Luigi Cangiano.
Francesco Marzano.
Andrea Di Marco.
Vincenzo Arato.

1998
Incoronata Sollazzo.
Maria Incoronata Ramella.
Erilda Ztausci.
Enrico Chiarenza.
Salvatore DE Falco.
Rosario Flaminio.
Alberto Vallefuoco.
Giuseppina Guerriero.
Luigi Ioculano.
Domenico Geraci.
Antonio Condello.
Maria angela Ansalone.
giuseppe maria bìccheri.
Giuseppe Messina.
Graziano Muntoni.
Giovanni Gargiulo.
Giovanni Volpe.
Giuseppe Radicia.
Orazio Sciascio.
Giuseppe IAcona.
Davide Ladini.
Saverio Ierace.
Antonio Ferrara.
Giuseppe Maria Biccheri.

1999
Salvatore Ottone.
Emanuele Nobile.
Rosario Salerno.
Stefano Pompeo.
Filippo Basile.
Hiso Telaray.
Matteo Di Candia.
Vincenzo Vaccaro Notte.
Luigi Pulli.
Raffaele Arnesano.
Rodolfo Patera.
Ennio Petrosino.
Rosa Zaza.
Anna Pace.
Marco De Franchis.
Francesco Salvo.

2000
Antonio Lippiello.
Salvatore Vaccaro Notte.
Antonio Sottile.
Alberto De Falco.
Ferdinando Chiarotti.
Francesco Scerbo.
Giuseppe Grandolfo.
Domenico Stanisci.
Domenico Gullaci.
Maria Colangiuli.
Hamdi Lala.
Gaetano De Rosa.
Saverio Cataldo.
Daniele Zoccola.
Salvatore De Rosa.
Giuseppe Falanga.
Luigi Sequino.
Paolo Castaldi.
Gianfranco Madia.
Valentina Terracciano.
Raffaele Iorio.
Ferdinando Liguori.

2001
Giuseppe Zizolfi.
Tina Motoc.
Michele Fazio.
Carmelo Benvegna.
Stefano Ciaramella.

2002
Federico Del Prete.
Torquato Ciriaco.
Maurizio D'elia.
Husan Balikçi.

2003
Domenico Pacilio.
Gaetano Marchitelli.
Claudio TagliaLatela.
Paolino Avella.
Michele Amico.
Giuseppe Rovescio.

2004
Bonifacio Tilocca.
Annalisa Durante.
Stefano Biondi.
Paolo Rodà.
Gelsomina Verde.
Dario Scherillo.
Matilde Sorrentino.
Francesco Estatico.
Fabio Nunneri.
Massimiliano Carbone.
Antonio Landieri.
Francesco Graziano.
Antonio Maiorano.

2005
Francesco Rossi.
Attilio Romanò.
Francesco Fortugno.
Giuseppe Riccio.
Daniele Polimeni.
Gianluca Congiusta.
Carmela Fasanella.
Romano Fasanella.
Domenico De Nittis.
Pepe tunevic.
Emilio Albanese.

2006
Salvatore Buglione.
Daniele Del Core.
Loris Di Roberto.
Rodolfo Pacilio.
Michele Landa.
Antonio Palumbo.
Anna Politikovskaja.

2007
Luigi Sica.
Francesco Gaito.
Umberto Improta.
Giuseppe Veropalumbo.
Luigi Rende.

2008
Mario Costabile.
Domenico Noviello.
Marco Pittoni.
Raffaele Gargiulo.
Raffaele Granata.
Gennaro Cortumaccio.
Giuseppe Minopoli.
Lorenzo Riccio.
Raffaele Manna.
Nicola Sarpa.
Samuel Kwaku.
Cristopher Adams.
Eric Affum Yeboah.
Kwame Antwi Julius Francis.
El Hadji Ababa.
Alex Geemes.
Francesco Alighieri.
Gabriele Rossi.

2009
Felicia Castaniere.
domenico gabriele.
Petru Birlandeanu.
Gaetano Montanino.

2010
Salvatore ALVATORE FARINARO.
Teresa Buonocore.
Angelo Vassallo.
Gianluca Cimminiello.
Lea Garofalo.

2011
Carmine Cannillo.
Vincenzo Liguori.


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good list Furio!

furio that's list of innocent victim of the mafia not mobsters, right?

yes,it is a list of innocent victims of the mafia, i don't find a list of the killed mobster, i searching, if a find a list, i will post it.

i doubt there is a list of killed mobster

Viale Lazio massacre
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump The body of Michele Cavataio after the hit in Viale Lazio.
Location Office in the Viale Lazio in Palermo, (Sicily).
Date December 10, 1969
7:30 PM
Target Michele Cavataio, Mafia boss of the Acquasanta quarter of Palermo.
Attack type Massacre
Death(s) Five killed
Perpetrator(s) Mafia hit squad composed of Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Bagarella, Emanuele D’Agostino, Damiano Caruso, Gaetano Grado and Salvatore Riina.

The Viale Lazio massacre (Lazio Street Massacre) on December 10, 1969, was a settling of accounts in the Sicilian Mafia. Mafia boss Michele Cavataio and three men were killed in the Viale Lazio in Palermo (Sicily) by a Mafia hit squad. The bloodbath marked the end of a ‘pax mafiosa’ that had reigned since the Ciaculli massacre until the end of the Trial of the 114 against Cosa Nostra.

Contents [hide]
1 Preceding events
2 The attack
3 Viale Lazio trials
4 See also
5 References
6 External links


[edit] Preceding eventsCavataio had been one of the protagonists of the First Mafia War in 1962-63. According to pentito (government witness) Tommaso Buscetta it had been Cavataio who deliberately escalated a dispute between different factions. He was held responsible for the Ciaculli massacre, a bomb attack against Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco. He kept fuelling the war through other bomb attacks and killings.[1] Another pentito, Gaetano Grado, confirmed Buscetta’s testimony.[2]

After the Trial of the 114 relating to the First Mafia War, was over in December 1968, several top Mafia bosses decided to eliminate Cavataio during a meeting in Zürich on the instigation of Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco who had come all the way from Venezuela. Greco had come to subscribe to Buscetta’s theory about how the First Mafia War began.[3] Cavataio claimed to have drawn a map of the Palermo Mafia families including the names of all members in an attempt to blackmail his way out of trouble. Such a map was dangerous if the police would be able get hold of it.[4][5]

A Mafia hit squad was composed including Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Bagarella (an elder brother of Leoluca Bagarella the brother-in-law of Totò Riina), Emanuele D’Agostino and Gaetano Grado of Stefano Bontade’s Santa Maria di Gesù Family, and Damiano Caruso a soldier of Giuseppe Di Cristina, the Mafia boss of Riesi.[6]

According to Buscetta and Grado, the composition of the hit squad was a clear indication that the killing had been sanctioned collectively by all the major Sicilian Mafia families: not only did it include Calogero Bagarella from Corleone, and members of Stefano Bontate’s family in Palermo, but also a soldier of Giuseppe Di Cristina’s family on the other end of Sicily in Riesi.[2][7]

[edit] The attackOn 7:30 PM, the hit squad dressed in police uniforms carrying 12-gauge shotguns, submachine guns and pistols, entered the office of the construction company of Girolamo Moncada in the Viale Lazio – a modern street in the smart new northern area of Palermo. Totò Riina stayed in one of the cars to direct the operation. The builder, his sons, the firm’s accountant and Cavataio held a late meeting together with some other men. All were armed as usual.[4]

Provenzano and Bagarella led the attack, followed by Caruso. According to one account, Caruso fired too early, destroying the advantage of surprise.[4] Cavataio was able to shoot and kill Bagarella and wounding Caruso and Provenzano, before ducking under a desk, playing dead. Provenzano started pulling Cavataio’s ankles to get the Mafia organogramme – the rumour was that Cavataio kept it hidden in a sock. Cavataio tried to shoot Provenzano but he had run out of bullets. Provenzano tried to shoot with his machine gun, but it jammed, so he clubbed Cavataio unconscious with the butt. When he got his hand free, he grabbed his handgun and shot Cavataio dead.[4]

The shoot-out lasted a few minutes and left five men dead: Cavataio, the mafioso Francesco Tumminello, the accountant Salvatore Bevilacqua, Giovanni Domè, a security guard, as well as Bagarella, one of the attackers.[2] In the office 108 bullets had been fired.[8] Bagarella’s body was carried to waiting cars and was buried secretly on top of another in a cemetery in his hometown Corleone.[4]

The story was that Provenzano has saved the situation with his Beretta 38/A submachine gun and earned himself a reputation as a Mafia killer with the attack.[9] The attack increased Provenzano’s reputation and his nickname, u’ tratturi (the tractor) because as one pentito put it, ‘where he passed, the grass no longer grew’.[4]

However, according to Gaetano Grado – one of the participants who turned government witness in 1999 – it was Provenzano who messed up the attack, shooting too early.[5][10] Grado said he helped organize the hit and witnessed the murders first hand. "Everybody was scared of Cavataio," according to Grado, a cousin of the pentito Salvatore Contorno. All the mafia soldiers sent to kill Cavataio "were veterans," Grado said. "We all had already murdered at least 10 people." [11]

[edit] Viale Lazio trialsIn September 1972, the trial for the Viale Lazio massacre took place; 24 defendants had been rounded up. Filippo and Angelo Moncada, the builder’s sons, were at first imprisoned on suspicion of being part of the plot. In hospital, where he was interned for his gunshot wounds, Fillippo started talking about his father’s meetings with notorious mafiosi, and described how Cavataio had gradually become the real boss in Moncada’s firm.[8]

For the Moncada brothers to ‘talk’ was big news in Sicily. They were released from prison, but their father was placed in custody together with 24 alleged participants in the Viale Lazio massacre who had been rounded up on the evidence given by the two brothers. The final verdict of the jury at the first trial was that no evidence could be substantiated to prove that any of the 24 defendants had been directly responsible for the Viale Lazio massacre.[8]

Many appeals would follow. In 2007, Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano went on trial for their role in the Viale Lazio Massacre that resulted on Cavataio and his men's deaths. Riina is accused of ordering the massacre and Provenzano is accused of taking part in it.[6][12] In April 2009, nearly forty years after the attack, they were both sentenced to life imprisonment.[13]

With regard to IvyLeague's post....Gerlandino Messina was the last boss of Agrigento, not Falsone.

With regard to Furio's post...you have Giuseppe Messina listed as a mafia victim (civilian), he was actually a mafioso boss that was murdered in 1986 (not 1999 as you have listed). Unless you're talking about a different Giuseppe Messina.