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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.
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He also was involved in the kidnapping and murder of the 13-year-old Giuseppe Di Matteo the son of Santino Di Matteo, a collaborating state witness , to force him to retract his testimony. Giuseppe Di Matteo was tortured before being strangled and his body was dissolved in a barrel of acid to destroy the evidence. [2] [3]
Santino Di Matteo, who also later turned pentito, revealed all the details of the assassination: who tunnelled beneath the motorway, who packed the 13 drums with TNT and Semtex, who hauled them into place on a skateboard, and who pressed the remote-control button to trigger the bomb.
Di Matteo may refer to: As a last name: Alessia di Matteo, the first person in history to survive the transplantation of eight organs in a single operation; Luca Di Matteo, an Italian football midfielder; Roberto Di Matteo, a former Italian professional footballer, and former manager of Chelsea F.C. and FC Schalke 04
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The third life sentence, he received for his involvement with the kidnap and killing of the 11-year-old Giuseppe Di Matteo – the son of the pentito (a mafioso turned state witness) Santino Di Matteo. [7] The boy had been kidnapped on the orders of Giovanni Brusca in November 1993 to force Di Matteo to retract his testimony.