The Honored Society: A Portrait of Italy's Most Powerful Mafia (34 page)

Palma, Anna,
141–142
,
144

Palma di Montechiaro,
142

Panico clan,
220
,
222

Pannunzi, Alessandro and Roberto,
43

Paolillo, Alessandro,
234
,
235

Paolillo, Francesco,
223–224
,
230–231
,
234
,
235

Paraguay,
42

Partanna village,
162–164

Patriarchy,
170–171

Paul VI (Pope),
97

Pelle, Antonio,
157
,
158

Pelle, Giuseppe,
61–62

Pelle-Vottari clan,
39
,
55
,
61
,
119
,
152
,
153

bunker of,
57–58

People trafficking,
39
,
75

Peru,
42
,
50

Pianos prison,
136

Piccolo, Salvatore Lo,
89

Pio La Torre law,
143

Pizzini
(notes),
211

Pizzitola, Father Vincenzo,
100–101
,
102

Poland,
229

Police,
5
,
12
,
20
,
41
,
57
,
58
,
67
,
68
,
69
,
92
,
167–168
,
173
,
211
,
244
,
251

financial police,
224–225
,
230

in Germany,
125
,
150
,
152
,
154
(
see also
Germany: German vs. Italian investigators
)

See also
Carabinieri

Politicians. See
Mafia: political connections of

Polsi,
50–51
.
See also
Santa Maria di Polsi

Popolo della Libertà party,
77

Porta Nuova family,
7
,
8
,
9
,
11

Porto Empedocle,
142

Private clinics,
64

Processions,
59–60
,
83
,
93
,
193
,
238–240

and distribution of power,
103–104

Prodi government,
124
,
139

Pro Loco of San Giovanni di Gerace,
158

Property confiscations,
43
,
118
,
119
,
135
,
143
,
154
,
173
,
210
,
223

Prosecutors,
52
,
72
,
86
,
113
,
115
,
118–120
,
121
,
129
,
131
,
155
,
188
,
189
,
226
,
229
,
247

AntiMafia Pool,
113–114
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
142

prosecutors eliminated from AntiMafia Pool,
118

See also
Borsellino, Paolo
;
Falcone, Giovanni
;
Palma, Anna

Protection money,
50
,
61
,
126
,
133
,
184
,
193
,
246–247

Provenzano, Angelo,
201–202

Provenzano, Bernardo,
8
,
36
,
100
,
103
,
135
,
139
,
169–170
,
204
,
209–210
,
226

in hiding,
144
,
169

and religion,
88–89

sons of,
169
,
201–202

wife of,
47
,
102

Puglisi, Giuseppe,
104–105

Puzo, Mario,
147

Radio Capital,
209

Rai (Italian broadcaster),
48
,
243

Ramazzotti, Eros,
14

Reggio Calabria,
38
,
39
,
40
,
51
,
143

Palace of Justice in,
116–117
,
126
,
127
,
128

Religion,
4
,
19
,
46
,
56
,
85–89
,
170
,
209
,
232

commandments,
90

See also
Catholic Church
;
Processions
;
under
Mafia; Murders

Respect,
7
,
13
,
25
,
111
,
134
,
172

Resuttana clan,
184

Revenge campaigns,
167

Riccobono, Rosario,
11

Riina, Giovanni,
175

Riina, Giuseppe,
98–99
,
175

Riina, Totò,
8
,
11
,
21
,
22
,
32
,
88–89
,
100
,
103
,
104
,
108
,
134
,
137
,
172
,
181
,
199
,
210
,
211
,
242

sons of,
98–99
,
175

wife of (Antonietta),
102
,
173–174

Rizzotto, Placido,
101

Roberti, Franco,
229

Rome,
4
,
5
,
77
,
161

Romeo clan,
42

Rossi, Vasco,
213
,
241

Ruffini, Cardinal Ernesto,
97

Sabella, Marzia,
226

Salerno-Reggio motorway,
247

Salvo, Ignazio,
137

Salvo (taxi driver),
3
,
22
,
23–24
,
26
,
28
,
70
,
81
,
84
,
114
,
120–121
,
160
,
213
,
250–251

San Leoluca (saint),
101

San Luca,
39
,
40–44
,
55
,
59
,
117
,
119
,
151
,
152
,
153
,
166
,
167
,
188

San Martino (saint),
101

San Placido (saint),
101
,
103

Santa Maria del Carmelo,
83

Santa Maria della Pietà in Kalsa,
81
,
83
,
84
,
85

Santa Maria di Polsi (pilgrimage site),
50–51
,
53–54
,
55

Santapaola, Nitto,
88

Santa Rosalia,
103

Santa Rosalia, church of,
107–108
,
109
,
110
,
176–177

Sarno, Carmine,
217–225
,
230–231
,
233

Sarno, Ciro,
218
,
223
,
232

Saviano, Roberto,
229

Scarantino, Vincenzo,
181

Scarpinato, Roberto,
118

Schifani, Renato,
142
,
189

Schifani, Rosaria,
30–33

Schifani, Vito,
29
,
30

Schindler’s List
(film),
197–198

Sciascia, Leonardo,
167

Scopa
,
24

Scopelliti, Antonino,
86

Secret codes,
89–90

Selinunte,
52

Sentencing/imprisonment issues,
125
,
130–131
,
143

high-security detentions,
136
,
208

Servizio Centrale in Rome,
4
,
5

Shobha (photographer),
3
,
24
,
37–38
,
41
,
47
,
52–53
,
56
,
58
,
60
,
62
,
69–70
,
72
,
76
,
79
,
81
,
82
,
92–93
,
97
,
106–107
,
113
,
127
,
141
,
159–160
,
165
,
200
,
213
,
216–217
,
229–230
,
237
,
239
,
249–250

mother of,
26
,
62
.
See also
Battaglia, Letizia

ransacked house of,
187

Sicilcassa bank,
132

Sicilians/Sicily,
2
,
10
,
24
,
27
,
33
,
42

bridge between Sicily and mainland,
139

percentage of population in Mafia,
121

Sicilian language/dialect,
13
,
89
,
155
,
206

Sicula Brokers,
189

Slush funds,
227

Smuggling,
227
,
229

Socialist Party,
134
,
135

Solidarność
activists,
69

South/Central America,
42
,
43

Spain,
43

Sprenger, Heinz,
149–150
,
151–152
,
154–155

Stein, Edith,
87

Strangio, Don Pino.
See
Don Pino

Strangio, Maria,
153

Strangio, Sebastiano,
48
,
151

Superglue,
246

Surveyors’ architecture,
29

Tangentopoli scandal,
135

Tax avoidance,
227

Terremotati
,
223

Toxic waste,
216

Trapani,
68
,
169
,
238–240
,
243

Trimboli, “Don Micu,”
43

Turncoats,
4
,
6
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
14
,
15–16
,
21
,
64
,
83
,
86
,
88
,
91
,
100
,
103
,
133
,
135
,
136–137
,
169
,
182
,
184
,
185
,
187
,
201
,
205
,
210
,
215
,
232

father of murdered child as

turncoat,
242

first turncoat boss,
8

Marcello Fava’s godfather as turncoat,
15–16
,
17

Ucciardone prison,
37
,
72
,
84
,
165

maxi-trial in,
73–74
,
208
,
209

trials of Falcone and Borsellino murderers in,
165

Uruguay,
42
,
50

Value systems,
95
,
169

Vatican Bank,
9

Vendetta,
167

Venezuela,
42
,
50
,
245

Vitale, Giusy,
169