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July 26 – Rita Atria, a witness of justice in a major Mafia investigation in Sicily. She committed suicide a week after the Mafia killed Antimafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino. [32] July 27 – Giovanni Lizzio, police inspector. [1] November 10 – Gaetano Giordano, merchant. [1]
This category is for high-profile victims of the Mafia in Sicily, such as politicians, judges, police chiefs, etc., as opposed to the less publicized victims claimed by day-to-day Mafia business. The phrase is a translation from the Italian "Cadaveri eccellenti".
List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia This page was last edited on 13 May 2020, at 00:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...
Letizia Battaglia, an Italian photographer who documented the arrests of Mafia bosses and the bodies of their victims, has died in her native Sicilian city of Palermo. Among the authorities ...
The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (Italian: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa-], Sicilian: [ˈkɔːsa ˈnɔʂː(ɽ)a]; "our thing" [3]), also referred to as simply Mafia, is a criminal society and criminal organization originating on the island of Sicily and dates back to the mid-19th century. It is an association of gangs which sell their ...
In 1986, 475 alleged members of the Sicilian Mafia went on trial in a similarly constructed bunker in Palermo. The proceedings resulted in more than 300 convictions and 19 life sentences.
Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who once claimed to have murdered enough people to fill a cemetery, was laid to rest on Wednesday in his hometown in Sicily, with only a handful of family ...
The webpage provides a list of Sicilian Mafia members categorized by city.