Giusy Vitale

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Giuseppa "Giusy" Vitale (born February 25, 1972 in Partinico ) is the sister of the mafioso Salvatore "Vito" Vitale and, after his arrest on April 15, 1998, took over the leadership of the Vitale clan, also known as the " Fardazza " clan Partinico from the Sicilian Cosa Nostra . In the 2000s Giusy Vitale broke as so-called Pentita the Omertà and said as principal witness against members of her clan and her family.

Life

Early years

Giuseppa "Giusy" Vitale was born in Partinico in 1972 and, according to her own words, grew up with her older brothers Leonardo "Nardo" (1955), Michele (1957) and Salvatore "Vito" (1959), as well as her older sister Nina in a violent family with an always tense atmosphere.

Because the father bought a Lamborghini tractor and plowed his fields with it, the family was nicknamed “ Fardazzas ”. Like her brothers, Giusy regularly helped her father with the work he did on his own land and with his own cattle breeding, which the brothers Leonardo and Vito defied and pursued a criminal career at an early age.

Even as a child, Giusy regularly visited her brother Leonardo in prison and, at the request of her brothers, left school at the age of 13, after having reached the third year of middle school . As a result, she took over the first henchman services for her brothers, who had gradually risen in the underworld and later had close ties to high-ranking mafiosi such as Salvatore "Totò" Riina from the " Corleonesi " or Giovanni "u verru" Brusca des San-Giuseppe-Jato - Clans entertained.

Giusy later married and had two children with her husband, who, according to Giusy, did not like it when they ran errands for their fugitive brothers in the middle of the night and she had to look after them in their changing shelters.

Criminal career

After her brother Vito, who acted as the new head of the clan after Leonardo, was arrested on April 15, 1998, among other things for aiding and abetting murder, and thus all leading representatives of the clan were imprisoned with long prison terms, Giusy Vitale became, according to the anti-mafia judge Maurizio de Luca, out of prison without ever having performed the initiation ritual of the Cosa Nostra, was appointed the new Capomandamento in place of her brother Vito and thus the representative of a group of three neighboring clans that are united in one mandate.

Arrest and witness protection

On June 24, 1998, Giusy was arrested and sentenced to six years' imprisonment. After serving four years of imprisonment, she was released early in 2002 and detained again in 2003 on charges of murdering a businessman who betrayed one of her brothers. After her brother Leonardo urged her out of prison to murder the man, Giusy commissioned the man to be murdered.

In March 2005, Giusy began cooperating with the authorities, giving testimony of her role as head of the clan, details of the murder and the structure of her family's clan. Since her brothers broke with her and she is doomed as the so-called Pentita , Giusy was accepted into the witness protection program and now lives with her son and daughter in an unknown location.

In November 2015, Leonardo Vitale's daughter Maria Gallina and his wife Maria Vitale were arrested, two more women who had represented the interests of the Partinico Mafia clan.

literature

  • Milka Kahn, Anné Verona: Women of Honor: Madonnas, Godmothers and Informers in the Italian Mafia . Hurst & Company, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-84904-806-4 .
  • Giuseppina Vitale & Camilla Costanzo: I was a Mafia boss: my life for the Cosa Nostra . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2010, ISBN 3-421-04442-2 .

Documentation

  • Die Frauen der Cosa Nostra (2017): Documentary episode of the 3-part documentary series Italy's Mafia for the TV channel ZDFinfo
  • Dentro Cosa Nostra. Storia del pentitismo mafioso (2009): Documentary episode of the Italian documentary series Blu notte

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milka Kahn, Anné Verona: Women of Honor: Madonnas, Godmothers and Informers in the Italian Mafia. P. 44
  2. ↑ climb to the top of a family clan. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . January 16, 2011, accessed April 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c The Mafia is emancipating itself: "My life for the Cosa Nostra". In: n-tv . December 9, 2011, accessed April 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ 'La prima donna boss' Vitale tells court of her Mafia family life. In: The Independent . July 3, 2005, accessed April 3, 2020 .
  5. ↑ The Mafia Hunter: Special Investigators on the Trail of the Cosa Nostra. In: Google Books . Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ L'evoluzione delle donne di mafia: "Droga, estorsioni e cda, ora sono protagoniste degli affari". In: Corriere della Sera . February 28, 2019, accessed April 3, 2020 (Italian).
  7. ^ Giusy Vitale: storia di una donna d'onore suo malgrado "I miei fratelli si fidavano ciecamente di me, purtroppo". In: palermo.meridionews.it. November 24, 2018, accessed April 3, 2020 (Italian).
  8. ↑ La donna boss si pente: lo faccio per i figli. In: corriere.it. March 26, 2005, accessed April 3, 2020 (Italian).
  9. ^ Mafia, arrestate la moglie e la figlia del boss Leonardo Vitale. In: Telejato.it. November 18, 2015, accessed April 3, 2020 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Vitale, Giusy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vitale, Giuseppa (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sicilian Mafiosa
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Partinico , Sicily , Italy