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Ciaculli bombing

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The Ciaculli massacre on 30 June 1963 was caused by a car bomb that exploded in Ciaculli, an outlying suburb of Palermo, killing seven police and military officers sent to defuse it after an anonymous phone call. [1]

37 relations: Alexander Stille, Angelo La Barbera, Antimafia Commission, Bernardo Provenzano, Calcedonio Di Pisa, Calogero Bagarella, Car bomb, Carabinieri, Caracas, Christian Democracy (Italy), Ciaculli, Francesco Vassallo, Gaetano Grado, Giuseppe Di Cristina, Greco Mafia clan, Il Capo dei Capi, Illegal drug trade, Italian Army, Leoluca Bagarella, List of massacres in Italy, List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia, Massacre, Michele Cavataio, Palermo, Pax Mafiosa, Pietro Torretta, Riesi, Sack of Palermo, Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco, Salvatore Lima, Salvatore Riina, Sicilian Mafia, Sicilian Mafia Commission, Stefano Bontade, Tommaso Buscetta, Viale Lazio massacre, Vito Ciancimino.

Alexander Stille

Alexander Stille (born 1 January 1957 in New York City) is an American author and journalist.

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Angelo La Barbera

Angelo La Barbera (July 3, 1924 – October 28, 1975) was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia.

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Antimafia Commission

The Italian parliamentary Antimafia Commission (Commissione parlamentare antimafia) is a bicameral commission of the Italian Parliament, composed of members from the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

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Bernardo Provenzano

Bernardo Provenzano (31 January 1933 – 13 July 2016) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia (Cosa Nostra) and was suspected of having been the head of the Corleonesi, a Mafia faction that originated in the town of Corleone, and de facto capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses) of the entire Sicilian Mafia until his arrest in 2006.

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Calcedonio Di Pisa

Calcedonio Di Pisa (October 11, 1931 in Palermo – December 26, 1962 in Palermo), also known as Doruccio, was a member of the Sicilian Mafia.

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Calogero Bagarella

Calogero Bagarella (January 14, 1935 – December 10, 1969) was an Italian criminal and member of the Sicilian Mafia.

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Car bomb

A car bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device placed inside a car or other vehicle and detonated.

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Carabinieri

The Carabinieri (formally Arma dei Carabinieri, "Carabinieri Force" or previously Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali, "Royal Carabinieri Corps") is the fourth Italian military force charged with police duties under the authority of the Ministry of Defense.

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Caracas

Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and centre of the Greater Caracas Area, and the largest city of Venezuela.

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Christian Democracy (Italy)

Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana, DC) was a Christian democratic political party in Italy.

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Ciaculli

Ciaculli is an outlying suburb of Palermo, Sicily in Italy.

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Francesco Vassallo

Francesco Vassallo a.k.a. don Ciccolo, don Frankie or King Concrete (born c. 1910) was an Italian entrepreneur that associated with Mafia in the 1950s.

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Gaetano Grado

Gaetano Grado (born in Palermo, date unknown) is an Italian mafioso from Palermo, Sicily.

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Giuseppe Di Cristina

Giuseppe Di Cristina (April 22, 1923 – May 30, 1978) was a powerful mafioso from Riesi in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily, southern Italy.

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Greco Mafia clan

The Greco Mafia family is a historic and one of the most influential Mafia clans in Sicily and Calabria, from the late 19th century.

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Il Capo dei Capi

Il Capo dei Capi (The Boss of the Bosses) is a six-part Italian miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 between October and November 2007.

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Illegal drug trade

The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs that are subject to drug prohibition laws.

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Italian Army

The Italian Army (Italian: Esercito Italiano) is the land defence force of the Italian Armed Forces of the Italian Republic.

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Leoluca Bagarella

Leoluca Bagarella (born February 3, 1942, Corleone) is an Italian criminal and member of the Sicilian Mafia.

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List of massacres in Italy

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Italy and its predecessors (numbers may be approximate): Italy Massacres Massacres.

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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.

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Massacre

A massacre is a killing, typically of multiple victims, considered morally unacceptable, especially when perpetrated by a group of political actors against defenseless victims.

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Michele Cavataio

Michele Cavataio (Palermo, 1929 - Palermo, December 10, 1969), also known as The Cobra was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia.

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Palermo

Palermo (Sicilian: Palermu, Panormus, from Πάνορμος, Panormos) is a city of Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo.

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Pax Mafiosa

The Pax Mafiosa is a term describing a state of relative non-violence in the territories of organized crime groups caused by agreements not to interfere in criminal activities.

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Pietro Torretta

Pietro Torretta (ca. 1912 – October 3, 1975) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia.

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Riesi

Riesi is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Caltanissetta in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about south of Caltanissetta.

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Sack of Palermo

The Sack of Palermo or scempio in Italian is the popular term for the construction boom from the 1950s through the mid-1980s that led to the destruction of the green belt and villas that gave Palermo, Italy, architectural grace, to make way for characterless and shoddily constructed apartment blocks.

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Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco

Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco (13 January 1923 – 7 March 1978) was a powerful mafioso and boss of the Sicilian Mafia Family in Ciaculli, an outlying suburb of Palermo famous for its citrus fruit groves, where he was born.

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Salvatore Lima

Salvatore Achille Ettore Lima (January 23, 1928 – March 12, 1992) was an Italian politician from Sicily who was associated with, and murdered by, the Sicilian Mafia.

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Salvatore Riina

Salvatore "Totò" Riina (16 November 1930 in Corleone – 17 November 2017 in Parma), called Totò 'u Curtu (Totò the Short; Totò being the 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, resulting in widespread public outcry and a major crackdown by the authorities.

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Sicilian Mafia

The Sicilian Mafia, also known as simply the Mafia and frequently referred to by members as Cosa Nostra (this thing of ours), is a criminal syndicate in Sicily, Italy.

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Sicilian Mafia Commission

The Sicilian Mafia Commission, known as Commissione or Cupola, is a body of leading Sicilian Mafia members to decide on important questions concerning the actions of, and settling disputes within the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra.

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Stefano Bontade

Stefano Bontade (April 23, 1939 – April 23, 1981) was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia.

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Tommaso Buscetta

Tommaso Buscetta (13 July 1928 – 2 April 2000) was an Italian gangster, a member of the Sicilian Mafia, who became the first Mafia boss to turn informant (pentito) and explain the inner workings of the organisation.

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Viale Lazio massacre

The Viale Lazio massacre (Lazio Boulevard Massacre) on December 10, 1969, was a settling of accounts in the Sicilian Mafia.

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Vito Ciancimino

Vito Alfio Ciancimino (April 2, 1924 – November 19, 2002) was an Italian politician close to the Mafia leadership who became notorious for enriching himself and his associates by corruptly granting planning permission.

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Redirects here:

Ciaculli Massacre, Ciaculli massacre, First Mafia War.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaculli_bombing

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