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Santino Di Matteo (born 7 December 1954), also known as Mezzanasca, is an Italian former member of the Sicilian Mafia from the town of Altofonte in the province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Di Matteo took part in the killing of anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone on 23 May 1992, near Capaci and also of the businessman Ignazio Salvo.
June 16 – a squad of hitmen armed with AK-47 rifles kills Catanese boss Alfio Ferlito, who was transferred from Enna to the Trapani jail, and died with the three escort carabinieri Salvatore Raiti, Silvano Franzolin and Luigi Di Barca, and the driver Giuseppe Di Lavore in the so-called Circonvallazione massacre.
To force Di Matteo to retract his statements, Giovanni Brusca, Leoluca Bagarella, Giuseppe Graviano and Matteo Messina Denaro decided to abduct his son Giuseppe Di Matteo, who was brutally strangled and dissolved in acid after 779 days of being held hostage. [16] Despite this, Di Matteo continued to cooperate with justice. [17]
Giuseppe Di Matteo was tortured before being strangled and his body was dissolved in a barrel of acid to destroy the evidence. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On August 12, 2005, Putrone, one of the most wanted men in Italy , was arrested in Ústí nad Labem with him accomplice Frantisek Herm in the Czech Republic , some 100 kilometres north-west of Prague .
Francesco Di Carlo (1941–2020) Giuseppe Di Cristina ... Santino Di Matteo; Calcedonio Di Pisa (1931–1962) Francesco Domingo; E. Daniele Emmanuello (1963–2007) F.
Giuseppe Di Cristina (1923–1978) San Cataldo. Leonardo Messina (born 1955) ... Matteo Motisi (1918–2003) Gianni Nicchi (born 1981) Settimo Mineo (born 1938)
In 2012, though still at large, Messina Denaro was one of five people sentenced to life imprisonment for their roles in the murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo. [45] On 13 December 2013, Messina Denaro's sister, Patrizia Messina Denaro, was arrested along with several other mafia associates in a serious blow to Messina Denaro by Italian police. [46]
Giovanni Brusca (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni ˈbruska]; born 20 February 1957) is an Italian mobster and former member of the Corleonesi clan of the Sicilian Mafia.He played a major role in the 1992 murders of Antimafia Commission prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and businessman Ignazio Salvo, and once stated that he had committed between 100 and 200 murders. [1]