by Petra Reski
Diego Cammarata—Mayor of Palermo until 2012, Forza Italia (Popolo della Libertà) MP.
Francesco Campanella—Turncoat Sicilian mafioso, who had as groomsmen at his wedding the former Sicilian prime minister Salvatore “Totò” Cuffaro and the former Italian justice minister Clemente Mastella—and whose statements seriously incriminated Cuffaro.
Salvatore Cancemi—Turncoat Sicilian Mafia boss; because of his statements, Marcello Dell’Utri and Silvio Berlusconi were accused of complicity in the assassinations of public prosecutors Falcone and Borsellino—the charges were dropped in 2002.
Mario Carabetta—President of Pro Loco (consortium of local tourist offices) in the Calabrian town of San Giovanni di Gerace.
Michele Carabetta—’Ndranghetista from San Luca and member of the Pelle-Vottari clan; arrested after investigations into the Duisburg massacre.
Sonia Carabetta—Sister of the ’Ndranghetista Michele Carabetta.
Antonio “Ninni” Cassarà—Deputy leader of the mobile task force of the Palermo police and a close colleague of the public prosecutor Giovanni Falcone; murdered by the Mafia in 1985.
Vito Ciancimino—Mafia boss, Christian Democrat, and former mayor of Palermo; sentenced to thirteen years’ imprisonment for assistance to the Mafia; died in 2002.
Gaetano Cinà—Businessman from Palermo, mafioso from the Malaspina family, and codefendant in the trial against Marcello Dell’Utri; according to the indictment, a bagman between the Mafia and Berlusconi; died in 2006.
Bruno Contrada—Formerly the third most senior member of the Italian domestic intelligence agency; arrested in 1992 on suspicion of having passed on to the Mafia the information needed to assassinate the public prosecutor Giovanni Falcone; in jail since 2007.
Don Agostino Coppola—Parish priest from Carini in Sicily; accused of supporting the Mafia; died while under house arrest.
Renato Cortese—Leader of the mobile task force of Rome; previously leader of the mobile task force of Reggio Calabria and Palermo; arrested the boss Bernardo Provenzano in 2006.
Gaetano Costa—Leading public prosecutor of Palermo; murdered by the Mafia in 1980.
Rita Costa—Widow of the murdered public prosecutor Gaetano Costa.
Maurizio Costanzo—Italian journalist and talk-show host; subject to an assassination attempt in 1993 for his crusade against the Mafia.
Carla Cottone—Wife of Aldo Madonia, youngest son of the notorious Madonia Mafia clan.
Bettino Craxi—Former head of the Italian Socialist Party and former Italian prime minister, known as the “Lord of Bribes”; sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for deception, corruption, and illegal party financing, which he escaped by fleeing to Tunisia, where he died in 2000.
Salvatore “Totò” Cuffaro—Christian Democrat and former Sicilian regional president; sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for favoring the Mafia; then a senator; in jail since 2011.
Antonio D’Ali—Forza Italia (Popolo della Libertà) senator and current president of the senate environment commission; Sicilian businessman and owner of the Sicula Bank; former president of the Sicilian province of Trapani; and temporary employer of the Mafia bosses Francesco and Matteo Messina Denaro.
Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa—Chief of police in Palermo; he and his wife were murdered by the Mafia in 1982.
Marcello Dell’Utri—Forza Italia (Popolo della Libertà) senator and former member of the European parliament; Berlusconi’s right-hand man; sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment in December 2004 for supporting the Mafia.
Richard Dewes—Former Thuringian interior minister.
Rocco Dicillo—Bodyguard of Giovanni Falcone; murdered by the Mafia in 1992 along with Falcone.
Emanuele Di Filippo—Turncoat Sicilian mafioso.
Pasquale Di Filippo—Brother of Emanuele Di Filippo; also a turncoat.
Rosalba Di Gregorio—Mafia lawyer in Palermo, defender of many Cosa Nostra bosses, including Vittorio Mangano, Silvio Berlusconi’s so-called stable-keeper.
Baldassare Di Maggio—Turncoat Sicilian Mafia boss; incriminating witness in the Andreotti trial who testified to the kiss between Andreotti and the boss Totò Riina.
Giovanni Falcone—Legendary Sicilian anti-Mafia public prosecutor who led the maxi-trials against Cosa Nostra; murdered by the Mafia in 1992.
Nino Fasullo—Anti-Mafia priest, Redemptorist padre, and editor of the journal Segno.
Giuseppe Fava—Younger brother of the turncoat Sicilian mafioso Marcello Fava.
Marcello Fava—Turncoat Sicilian mafioso; formerly a member of the Porta Nuova clan in Palermo.
Don Stefano Fernando—Priest in San Luca, Calabria.
Joseph Focoso—Sicilian mafioso and multiple hit man; arrested in Saarland and handed over to Italy in 2005.
Francesco Fortugno—Calabrian regional politician; murdered by the ’Ndrangheta in Locri in 2005.
Padre Mario Frittitta—Carmelite monk from Palermo; temporarily arrested for favoring the Mafia, then released again.
Calogero Ganci—Turncoat Sicilian mafioso, multiple hit man, and murderer of his own father-in-law.
Madame Gennet—Real name Ganat Tewelde Barhe; Eritrean people-trafficker.
Elisa Giorgi—Sister of Francesco Giorgi, the youngest victim of the Duisburg massacre; daughter of Don Pino Strangio’s cousin.
Francesco Giorgi—Youngest victim of the Duisburg massacre.
Antonino Giuffrè—Turncoat Sicilian mafioso; until his arrest in 2002, seen as the number two in Cosa Nostra, after the godfather Bernardo Provenzano.
Boris Giuliano—Leader of the mobile task force of the Palermo police; discovered the heroin trade between Sicily and America; murdered by the Mafia in 1979.
Libero Grassi—Sicilian businessman who publicly refused to pay protection money; murdered by the Mafia in 1991.
Nicola Gratteri—Leading public prosecutor of the Anti-Mafia investigation unit in Reggio Calabria, in charge of the investigations surrounding the Duisburg massacre.
Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano—Arrested Sicilian Mafia bosses from Palermo’s suburb of Brancaccio; ordered the murder of the anti-Mafia priest Padre Puglisi.
Michele Greco—Sicilian Mafia boss, known as “the Pope” because of his important role as a mediator between the individual clans of Cosa Nostra; died in prison in 2008.
Salvatore Grigoli—Sicilian mafioso; shot the anti-Mafia priest Padre Puglisi in 1993.
Giuseppe Guttadauro—Surgeon and mafioso from Palermo who has excellent contacts with Sicilian politicians and businessmen; one of the “new” faces of Cosa Nostra.
Rosa Russo Iervolino—Mayor of Naples; notable for introducing a smoking ban in the city’s parks.
Enrico Incognito—Mafioso from Bronte, near Catania, who was shot by his brother Marcello to prevent him becoming a turncoat.
Marcello Incognito—Mafioso and murderer of his brother Enrico.
Antonio Ingroia—Leading senior public prosecutor with the anti-Mafia investigating authority in Palermo;among other things presided over the trial of Marcello Dell’Utri.
Mario Lavorato—Calabrian pizza-chef in Stuttgart; known as a friend of the former minister-president Oettinger; accused of being a member of the ’Ndrangheta; acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
Luciano Liggio—Mafia boss and multiple hit man from Corleone; until his arrest in 1974, head of the Corleone clan; began a painting career in prison and died there in 1993.
Monsignore Liggio—Parish priest in Corleone and cousin of the legendary Mafia boss Luciano Liggio.
Salvo Lima—Christian Democrat and Giulio Andreotti’s “proconsul” in Sicily; murdered by the Mafia in 1992.
Guido Lo Forte—Leading senior public prosecutor with the anti-Mafia investigation unit in Palermo; prosecutor in the Andreotti trial.
Salvatore Lo Piccolo—Sicilian Mafia boss; until his arrest in late 2007, seen as the successor to Bernardo Provenzano.
Pietro Lunardi—Former minister for infrastructure
and transport (2001–2006).
Aldo Madonia—Youngest son of the Madonia Mafia clan.
Francesco Madonia—Father of Aldo Madonia, boss of Palermo’s Madonia Mafia clan, and member of the council of Cosa Nostra.
Nino Mandalà—Sicilian Mafia boss from Villabate, well known for his good contacts with businessmen and politicians; the face of Sicily’s “new” Mafia.
Giuseppina Manganaro—Wife of a Sicilian turncoat mafioso.
Cinzia Mangano—Middle daughter of the Mafia boss Vittorio Mangano.
Loredana Mangano—Eldest daughter of the Mafia boss Vittorio Mangano.
Marina Mangano—Youngest daughter of the Mafia boss Vittorio Mangano.
Vittorio Mangano—Sicilian Mafia boss, known as “Berlusconi’s stable-keeper,” who lived in the businessman’s villa; died in prison in 2000.
Franco Marasà-Di Gregorio—Mafia lawyer in Palermo, husband of Rosalba Di Gregorio, and defender of the Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano.
Vincenzina Marchese—Sister-in-law of the Mafia boss Totò Riina and wife of the boss Leoluca Bagarella.
Francesco Marino Mannoia—Turncoat Sicilian mafioso of the Santa Maria di Gesù clan; state’s evidence in the Andreotti trial.
Marco Marmo—’Ndranghetista, victim of the Duisburg massacre and killer of Maria Strangio, wife of the ’Ndranghetista Giovanni Nirta.
Clemente Mastella—Justice minister in the second Prodi government (until 2006).
Piersanti Mattarella—Christian Democrat and regional president of Sicily; murdered in 1980 because of his fight against the Mafia.
Leonardo Messina—Turncoat Sicilian mafioso; worked closely with the public prosecutor Paolo Borsellino.
Francesco Messina Denaro—Mafia boss from Castelvetrano, member of the council of Cosa Nostra, and father of the fugitive boss Matteo Messina Denaro; died in hiding in 1998.
Matteo Messina Denaro—Mafia boss of the province of Trapani, son of the godfather Francesco Messina Denaro, and probable successor to the Mafia boss Provenzano; in hiding since 1993.
Salvatore Messina Denaro—Brother of the Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro; son of Francesco Messina Denaro.
Gianfranco Miccichè—Former Forza Italia (Popolo della Libertà) member of parliament and former president of the Sicilian regional assembly.
Rolf Milser—Former German weightlifter.
Saverio Montalbano—Former leader of the mobile task force of Trapani and “pizza connection” investigator, now retired.
Antonio Montinaro—Bodyguard of Giovanni Falcone; murdered along with Falcone in 1992.
Nino Mormino—Forza Italia (Popolo della Libertà) member of parliament and defender of Marcello Dell’Utri and Salvatore Cuffaro.
Francesca Morvillo—Wife of the anti-Mafia public prosecutor Giovanni Falcone; murdered with her husband in 1992.
Gioacchino Natoli—Leading public prosecutor with the anti-Mafia investigation unit in Palermo.
Michele Navarra—Doctor and Mafia boss in Corleone; murdered in 1958 by his foster-son, Luciano Liggio.
Giovanni Luca “Gianluca” Nirta—Head of the Calabrian Nirta-Strangio clan from San Luca and widower of Maria Strangio; Strangio was killed in the Christmas 2006 attack that was intended to kill her husband.
Günther Oettinger—Former minister-president of the German state of Baden-Württemberg; now commissioner for energy in the European Commission.
Leoluca Orlando—Former mayor of Palermo and former leader of the opposition in the Sicilian assembly. Reelected as mayor of Palermo in 2012.
Anna Palma—Anti-Mafia public prosecutor from Palermo, now on the anti-Mafia commission in Rome; she worked for Renato Schifani, president of the Italian senate and Popolo della Libertà member of parliament.
Roberto Pannunzi—’Ndranghetista with strong connections to the Colombian drug cartel; father of Alessandro Pannunzi, with whom he was arrested in 2004.
Alessandro Paolillo—Brother of Francesco Paolillo, the boy who died while playing in a derelict building in Ponticelli.
Francesco Paolillo—Boy who died while playing in a derelict building in the Naples suburb of Ponticelli.
Antonio Pelle—Calabrian businessman in Duisburg, originally from San Luca; proprietor of the Landhaus Milser.
Giuseppe Pelle—Head of the Pelle-Vottari clan from San Luca; arrested on charges of Mafia membership.
Spartaco Pitanti—Italian businessman; former proprietor of the Paganini restaurant in Erfurt.
Father Vincenzo Pizzitola—Parish priest in Corleone.
Romano Prodi—President of the Democratic Party; several times Italian prime minister, most recently until 2008.
Angelo Provenzano—Son of the Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano; imprisoned in 2006.
Bernardo Provenzano—Formerly the most-wanted Mafia boss; successor to Totò Riina as head of Cosa Nostra; arrested in Corleone after forty-three years of hide-and-seek.
Padre Giuseppe Puglisi—Anti-Mafia priest in the Brancaccio suburb of Palermo; murdered by the Mafia in 1993.
Rosario “Saruzzo” Riccobono—Mafia boss of the Partanna-Mondello clan and member of Cosa Nostra council; murdered by his enemy Totò Riina in 1982.
Giovanni Riina—Eldest son of the Sicilian Mafia boss Totò Riina.
Giuseppe Riina—Youngest son of Mafia boss Totò Riina.
Salvatore “Totò” Riina—Mafia boss from Corleone; for a time sole ruler of Cosa Nostra; responsible for Mafia wars and various series of assassinations in the 1980s and 1990s; serving a life sentence since 1993.
Placido Rizzotto—Trade unionist from Corleone; murdered by Luciano Liggio in 1948 on the orders of boss Michele Navarra.
Franco Roberti—Former leading senior public prosecutor with the anti-Mafia investigation unit in Naples. Now chief prosecutor in Salerno.
Antonio Romeo—Clan chief of the Calabrian Romeo family; closely associated with the Pelle-Vottari clan.
Ernesto Ruffini—Former archbishop of Palermo (1945–1967).
Salvo—Taxi driver in Palermo.
Ignazio Salvo—Christian Democrat, the richest businessman in Sicily, and representative of the bourgeois Mafia of the 1980s.
Benedetto “Nitto” Santapaola—Sicilian mafioso, clan chief in Catania, and member of Cosa Nostra council; in prison since 1993.
Carmine Sarno—Music producer from the Naples suburb of Ponticelli; member of the Sarno Camorra clan.
Ciro Sarno—Imprisoned head of the Sarno Camorra clan.
Vincenzo Scarantino—Temporary Mafia renegade who admitted involvement in the murder of Paolo Borsellino and later withdrew his statements.
Roberto Scarpinato—Leading senior public prosecutor in the anti-Mafia investigation unit of Palermo, chief prosecutor in the Andreotti trial, and now chief prosecutor in Caltanissetta.
Renato Schifani—President of the Italian senate and Forza Italia (Popolo della Libertà) member of parliament.
Rosaria Schifani—Widow of the bodyguard Vito Schifani.
Vito Schifani—Bodyguard of Giovanni Falcone; murdered in the attack on Falcone in 1992.
Antonino Scopelliti—Prosecuting magistrate with the supreme court in Rome; murdered by the Mafia in 1991.
Shobha—International award-winning Sicilian photographer; daughter of the anti-Mafia fighter Letizia Battaglia.
Heinz Sprenger—Detective chief superintendent with the criminal police in Duisburg and leader of the investigations into the Duisburg massacre.
Don Pino Strangio—Parish priest of San Luca and spiritual head of the pilgrimage site of Madonna di Polsi.
Maria Strangio—Wife of the ’Ndranghetista Gianluca Nirta; murdered by their enemy clan at Christmas 2006 in an attack intended to kill her husband.
Sebastiano Strangio—Owner of the pizzeria Da Bruno in Duisburg and victim of the Duisburg massacre.
Domenico “Don Micu” Trimboli—Boss of the Calabrian Trimboli clan; international drug dealer; arrested in 2008.
Bernhard Vogel—German Chris
tian Democrat and, until 2003, minister-president of Thuringia.
Franco Zecchin—Italian photographer and long-term partner of Letizia Battaglia.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Petra Reski was born in Unna, West Germany, in 1958. She has lived in Italy since 1989. Reski is a widely respected journalist, known for her investigative pieces about the Mafia.
INDEX
Addiopizzo organization, 247
Adultery, 90, 168, 241
Aeroporto Falcone e Borsellino, 34, 250
Agenda 2000, 59
Aglieri, Pietro, 33, 84, 85, 86, 87–88, 204, 205, 206–207
Agrigento, 142
Agrodolce, Bittersweet (TV show), 77
Alcamo clan, 24
Alessio (singer), 225, 231–233, 234
Alfano, Angelino, 77
Al-Qaeda, 50
Alvaro, Giulia, 167
Ammazzateci tutti anti-Mafia movement, 59
Amnesty, 124, 188
Andreotti, Giulio, 21, 22, 70, 75, 83, 114, 189, 228, 248
Ansa news agency, 181, 203, 209
Antimafia Duemila (newspaper), 3, 121, 248
Anti-Mafia Pool. See under Prosecutors
Antonacci, Biagio, 25, 250
Apulian Sacra Corona Unita, 28, 121
Argentina, 42
Arms dealing, 49, 55, 152, 222
Arms possession, illegal, 223
Arrests, 14, 16, 17, 18, 26, 43, 52, 55, 61, 75, 84, 87, 88, 89, 102, 104, 124, 142, 143, 150, 154, 167, 175, 181, 188, 202, 205, 219, 222, 223, 226, 243, 245
of Bernardo Provenzano, 144, 169, 209
of Vittorio Mangano, 196–197
Asinara prison, 136
Assassinations. See Murders
Attia, Giovanna, 163, 164
Atria, Rita, 161–164
Australia, 51
Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), 42
Badalamenti, Don Tano, 24–25
Bagarella, Antonietta, 173. See also Riina, Totò: wife of
Bagarella, Leoluca, 91, 100, 108, 137, 181
Bail culture, 124
Banca Ambrosiana, 9
Barhe, Ganat Tewelde (“Madame Gennet”), 75