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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.
January 11 – Giuseppe Di Matteo, son of Mafia pentito Santino Di Matteo was strangled, and his body subsequently dissolved in acid on the orders of Giovanni Brusca after being kidnapped on November 23, 1993, by Gaspare Spatuzza [36]
It is dedicated to the memory of Giuseppe Di Matteo, abducted in 1996 and then brutally killed on orders of Sicilian Mafia boss Giovanni Brusca in order to silence his father, a cooperating witness. [5] [6]
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 Cristina (1923–1978) San Cataldo. Leonardo Messina (born 1955) ... Francesco Di Carlo (born 1941) Santino Di Matteo (born 1954) Gioacchino La Barbera ...
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 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 .
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]