Filippo Marchese

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Filippo Marchese († 1982 ) was a member of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and for a short time the Capo of the Corso-dei-Mille family in Palermo .

Marchese became known especially posthumously through a special method of the Lupara Bianca , as he dissolved his murder victims in acid. His deeds became known through the Pentito Vincenzo Sinagra . Marchese had operated a torture cellar in the port together with Pino Greco .

biography

Marchese was a subordinate of the Corso dei Mille family . During the Second Great Mafia War , his boss Francesco Di Noto was murdered by the Corleonesi in the middle of 1981 . Marchese, who was allied with them, became head and now helped the Corleonesians in their war against the established Mafia families of Palermo .

In the “death room” on Piazza Sant Erasmo , more than 100 people - an exact number can no longer be determined - were tortured and then killed. In the Corleonesi war against the long-established families in 1981/82, Marchese played an important role as one of the most active murderers.

Marchese showed himself to be a sadistic psychopath who tortured his victims himself for days, allegedly masturbating and inhaling cocaine during the torture .

“Although Marchese was the boss of the clan, he strangled most of the victims himself, often for trivial reasons. He was a bloodthirsty character and you got the impression that he enjoyed killing someone; he demanded that no one showed any feelings during the process. "

- A pentito

The victims were then strangled with a garrotte , the corpses dissolved in acid and the remains disposed of in the Palermo sewer system.

“Two young people who had broken into their homes without the permission of the responsible“ family ”were strangled and thrown into an acid keg. What was left were their wristwatches. "

- Descriptions by Vincenzo Sinagra

However, his uncontrolled and uncontrolled manner became a potential risk for Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano , the leaders of the Corleonesi; he was no longer useful to them either. At the end of 1982 Marchese was strangled by his former friend Pino Greco, like his victims, by the Garrotte and dissolved in hydrochloric acid .

A little later his niece and two of his nephews were murdered.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b [1] Die Zeit , April 4, 1986; No. 15 on www.zeit.de
  2. ↑ Alexander Stille: The judges: The death, the mafia and the Italian republic , CH Beck, Munich, 1997 ISBN 3-406-42303-5

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personal data
SURNAME Marchese, Filippo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian mafioso
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 1982