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List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia

This list of victims of the Sicilian Mafia includes people who have been killed by the Sicilian Mafia while opposing its rule. It does not include people killed in internal conflicts of the Mafia itself.

1890s
1893 • February 1 – Emanuele Notarbartolo, former mayor of Palermo (1873–1876) and director of the Banco di Sicilia. He wanted to "clean" the management of the bank, damaging the Mafia political power. ==1900s==
1900s
1905 • October 14 – Luciano Nicoletti, peasant, militant of the Fasci Siciliani movement, engaged in struggles against large estates. He was 54 years old when he died. 1906 • January 13 – Andrea Orlando, doctor, city councilor. He supported the peasants in the struggles for "collective tenancy". 1909 • March 12 – Joseph Petrosino, a New York City police officer on a mission in Palermo to gather information from local police files to help deport Italian gangsters from New York as illegal immigrants. ==1910s==
1910s
1911 • May 16 – Lorenzo Panepinto, peasant leader in Santo Stefano Quisquina, involved in the Fasci Siciliani (Sicilian Leagues). 1914 • May 20 – Mariano Barbato and Giorgio Pecoraro, socialist militants from Piana dei Greci. 1915 • November 3 – Bernardino Verro, a Sicilian syndicalist and politician, involved in the Fasci Siciliani (Sicilian Leagues) a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration in 1891–1894, and the first socialist mayor of Corleone. 1919 • January 29 – Giovanni Zangara, elected councilor and then alderman on the list of Bernardino Verro. • September 22 – Giuseppe Rumore, secretary of the Lega di miglioramento (League of improvement) in Prizzi. ==1920s==
1920s
1921 • April 28 – Vito Stassi, socialist militant from Piana dei Greci. 1920 • February 29 – Nicola Alongi, peasant leader involved in the Fasci Siciliani from Prizzi. ==1930s==
1930s
With fascist rule in the 1930s, the mob seemed to disappear due to repressive state action. ==1940s==
1940s
1943 • September 2 – Antonio Mancino, first carabiniere killed by the Mafia. 1944 • August 6 – Andrea Raja, trade unionist for the occupation of land by farmers. • September 13 – Liborio Ansalone, chief of the municipal police of Corleone. • December 5 – Giuseppe Puntarello, a socialist trade union leader from Ventimiglia di Sicilia. 1947 • January 4 – Accursio Miraglia, a communist trade union leader from Sciacca. • November 8 – Vittorio Pipitone, trade unionist. In 1952, Leggio was acquitted of Rizzotto's murder. • March 11 – Giuseppe Letizia, a shepherd boy who witnessed the murder of Placido Rizzotto, was killed by the doctor Michele Navarra with a lethal injection. • April 1 – Calogero Cangelosi, secretary of the Camporeale Chamber of Labor. ==1950s==
1950s
1955 • May 16 – Salvatore Carnevale, trade unionist. 1957 • April 25 – Pasquale Almerico, trade unionist. ==1960s==
1960s
1960 • March 30 – Cataldo Tandoy, former head of police of Agrigento. • May 5 – Cosimo Cristina, a journalist with L'Ora in Palermo. 1963 • June 30 – Mario Malausa, Silvio Corrao, Calogero Vaccaro, Eugenio Altomare and Mario Farbelli from the Carabinieri, and Pasquale Nuccio and Giorgio Ciacci from the Army. Killed while defusing a car bomb intended for Mafia boss Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco in the so-called Ciaculli massacre. ==1970s==
1970s
1970 • September 16 – Mauro De Mauro, journalist for ''L'Ora'' in Palermo. He disappeared following his investigations on the mysterious death of Enrico Mattei and on the Golpe Borghese, a right wing coup attempt. De Mauro was allegedly murdered by the Mafia to cover up these events and possible political connections. 1971 • May 5 – Pietro Scaglione, Chief Prosecutor of Palermo, and his driver Antonino Lo Russo. The killing was ordered by Mafia boss Luciano Leggio, head of the Corleonesi. 1972 • October 27 – Giovanni Spampinato, journalist ''L'Ora'' who was killed while looking into the activities of neo-fascism in Sicily and Mafia smuggling activities along the east coast of Sicily. 1977 • August 20 – Giuseppe Russo, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Carabinieri, and Professor Filippo Costa. Russo was a confidant of Mafia boss Giuseppe Di Cristina who warned against the growing power of the Corleonesi faction, who killed Russo. 1978 • May 9 – Giuseppe Impastato, a political activist who opposed the Mafia in his hometown Cinisi, the stronghold of Mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti. 1979 • January 26 – Mario Francese, an investigative journalist with the Giornale di Sicilia. • July 11 – Giorgio Ambrosoli, lawyer • July 21 – Boris Giuliano, a police chief from Palermo and head of Palermo's Flying Squad (Squadra mobile), while investigating heroin trafficking by the Mafia. • September 25 – Judge Cesare Terranova and his driver, policeman Lenin Mancuso. Terranova had been the examining magistrate at the Palermo prosecuting office and a former member of the Italian Antimafia Commission. ==1980s==
1980s
1980 • January 6 – Piersanti Mattarella, President of the Regional Government of Sicily wanting to clean up the government's public contracts racket that benefited Cosa Nostra, passing a law enforcing the same building standards used in the rest of Italy, thereby making the Mafia's building schemes illegal. On January 31, 2015, his younger brother Sergio Mattarella was elected by the Italian Parliament to serve as President of the Italian Republic. • May 4 – Emanuele Basile, a captain of the Carabinieri and a collaborator of Judge Paolo Borsellino in anti-Mafia investigations. • November 14 – Calogero Zucchetto, Police officer of the Palermo Flying Squad. 1985 • April 2 – Barbara Asta, and her little sons, the twin-brothers Salvatore and Giuseppe, by a car bomb intended to kill the magistrate Carlo Palermo in the so-called Pizzolungo massacre. • September 25 – Judge Antonino Saetta and his son Stefano as they are returning to Palermo after a weekend in the country. wounded by a member of clan Cappello in Catania. • June 9 – Salvatore Incardona, operator of the Vittoria fruit and vegetable market. • August 5 – Antonino Agostino, a police officer who was shot to death with his wife outside his home by two gunmen in a motorcycle, was probably killed for investigating the attempted murder of judge Giovanni Falcone. ==1990s==
1990s
1990 • May 9 – Judge Giovanni Bonsignore, government official. • August 29 – Libero Grassi, a businessman from Palermo, who was killed after taking a solitary stand against their demands for extortion, known as "pizzo". 1992 • March 12 – Salvo Lima, a Christian Democrat politician and former mayor of Palermo, three weeks before Italy's national election of 1992. The Mafia felt betrayed by Lima and his political patron Giulio Andreotti. In their opinion they had failed to block the confirmation of the sentence of the Maxi Trial against the Mafia by the Court of Cassation (court of final appeal) in January 1992. • April 4 – Marshal of the Carabinieri Giuliano Guazzelli. • July 27 – Giovanni Lizzio, police inspector. • July 27 – The firemen Carlo La Catena, Stefano Picerno and Sergio Pasotto, the traffic policeman Alessandro Ferrari, and Driss Moussafir, a homeless Moroccan citizen, in the so-called Via Palestro massacre in Milan in a series of terrorist bomb attacks after the arrest of Mafia boss Totò Riina in January 1993. • September 15 – Pino Puglisi, the priest of San Gaetano's Parish in the Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio, the stronghold of Graviano clan, who spoke out against the Mafia. 1995 • March 24 – Luigi Botenza, prison police officer. 1998 • October 8 – Domenico Geraci, member of the Italian Popular Party, candidate for mayor's chair. ==2000s==
2000s
2000 • February 5 – Salvatore Vaccaro Notte, foreman of foresters and brother of Vincenzo Vaccaro Notte, was killed for not having bowed to the influence of a local gang better known as "Cosca dei Pidocchi" (Gang of the lice). 2004 • February 11 – Attilio Manca, a medical urologist, was found dead in his house in Viterbo. The autopsy showed the presence of drugs in his body and it was initially thought that this was a case of overdose. But in fact, he was perhaps killed to cover up an action by the boss Bernardo Provenzano in Marseilles. 2006 • August 22 – '''Giuseppe D'Angelo''', a pensioner, was accidentally killed in front of a greengrocer in the Sferracavallo district of Palermo because he was mistaken for the boss Bartolomeo Spatola. ==2010s==
2010s
2010 • February 26 – Enzo Fragalà, a lawyer and a politician, was killed because he instructed his clients to be open to the judiciary. ==References==
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