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Matteo Messina Denaro was born in Castelvetrano in the province of Trapani, Sicily. His father, Francesco Messina Denaro, known as Don Ciccio, was the capo mandamento of Castelvetrano. [4] Matteo learned to use a gun at 14. [5] He once bragged: "I filled a cemetery all by myself."
Matteo Denaro believed to have ordered dozens of murders and was even accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old Notorious Sicilian mafia boss dubbed ‘last godfather’ dies in custody after 30 years ...
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.
The new Commission had the blessing of the old bosses Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, as well as Matteo Messina Denaro, the boss from the province of Trapani. Not everyone agreed, however. Gaetano Lo Presti from the Porta Nuova family objected to the choice of Capizzi as the new head. He committed suicide after his arrest.
Salvatore Riina (Italian pronunciation: [salvaˈtoːre (toˈtɔ r)riˈiːna]; 16 November 1930 – 17 November 2017), called Totò (sicilian diminutive of Salvatore), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino ...
Matteo Messina Denaro (1962–2023), natural causes in prison; Settimo Mineo (born 1938), imprisoned; Nazario "The Rosary" Moreno González (1970–2014), killed by law enforcement; Gianni Nicchi (born 1981), serving eighteen-year prison sentence; Cesare Pagano (born 1969), imprisoned; Antonio Rotolo (born 1946), serving thirteen-year prison ...
This article contains a list of contract killers, both living and deceased, sorted by the country in which they engaged in said crimes. The practice of contract killing involves a person (the contract killer) who is paid to kill one or more individuals. [1]
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