The Honored Society: A Portrait of Italy's Most Powerful Mafia (31 page)

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 Christian Democrat and, until 2003, minister-president of Thuringia.

Franco Zecchin
—Italian photographer and long-term partner of Letizia Battaglia.

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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.

I
NDEX

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

AntiMafia 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

Barresi, Agata,
181

Bassolino, Antonio,
231
,
234

Battaglia, Letizia,
26–27
,
65–69
,
82–83
,
105–106
,
113
,
115–116
,
127
,
141
,
146–147
,
160
,
162
,
165
,
179–180
,
247–249

apartment of,
71–72

publishing company of,
79

Benedict XVI (Pope),
97

Berlin Wall,
154
,
229

Berlusconi, Silvio,
75
,
76
,
77
,
78
,
114
,
117
,
131
,
188
,
204
,
212
,
248

and Marcello Dell’Utri,
8–9
,
132–135

threatened by Mafia,
133

and Vittorio Mangano,
193
,
194

and wiretapping law,
138–139

Bernardo, Fra,
101

Bingo halls,
233–234

Bodyguards,
6
,
10
,
18
,
30
,
68
,
119
,
192
,
206
,
222

Boemi, Salvatore,
116–118
,
155

Bolivia,
42

Bombings,
134
,
220
,
246
.
See also
Explosives

Bontade, Stefano,
133
,
134

Borsellino, Paolo,
3
,
10
,
29
,
32
,
37
,
73
,
86
,
100
,
115
,
128
,
135
,
138
,
142
,
161
,
184
,
186
,
198
,
206
,
248
,
249
,
250

memorial day for,
74

Bosses,
8
,
9
,
11
,
25
,
28
,
33
,
36
,
64
,
67
,
74
,
83
,
85
,
88
,
100
,
133
,
134
,
135
,
150
,
161
,
168
,
189
,
206
,
222
,
241

first female boss,
169

frugality of,
246

in hiding,
25
,
211
,
241
,
243
,
244

imprisoned bosses,
10
,
109
,
136
,
137
,
150
,
165
,
194
,
201
,
207
,
211

and processions,
103–104

Boutiques,
39
,
193

Brazil,
42

Bribery,
91
,
135
,
169
,
227

Bugs (electronic),
126
,
153
,
205
.
See also
Wiretapping

Buscetta, Tommaso,
8
,
91

Calabria,
7
,
27–28
,
59
,
116
,
158
,
226
,
247