Salvatore Inzerillo (Mafioso)

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Salvatore Inzerillo (* 1944 in Palermo ; † May 11, 1981 ibid) was a powerful Sicilian mafioso.

Life

Salvatore Inzerillo was born into a large mafia family. His family traditionally played a strong role in the Mafia family, which is based in Palermo's districts Passo di Rigano and Uditore. The Inzerillos were related to the equally influential Di Maggios and to the Gambino clan , who ran one of the five mafia families of New York.

In the early 1970s, some families began the Cosa Nostra to drug trafficking , mainly heroin , to organize a large scale. The Inzerillo clan stood out because of its extensive connections. The heroin, refined in small secret laboratories, was delivered to the USA via the so-called Pizza Connection .

In 1978 Inzerillo succeeded his uncle Rosario Di Maggio and became the boss of his mafia family. Together with his close friend Stefano Bontade , probably the most powerful Palermitan mafia boss of the 1970s, he not only dominated the drug trade, but also the Cosa Nostra. In the 1970s, however, the Cosa Nostra was divided into two factions: One was led by Bontade, Inzerillo and Gaetano Badalamenti , the other by the Corleonesi and the Greco clan around Michele Greco .

The Corleonesi, led by Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano , gained more and more the upper hand and increasingly isolated Bontade and Inzerillo in the Cosa Nostra. In the commission , they were often no longer involved in important decisions and only found out about them afterwards, as Tommaso Buscetta later put on the record. Within Inzerillo's family, a group was formed that secretly joined the Corleonesians and quietly planned to take over power with them. In 1981 the Second Great Mafia War began with the murder of Stefano Bontade on the evening of April 23rd. Inzerillo responded to this murder with protective measures, such as a bulletproof car. According to Buscetta - who warned him from his exile in Brazil to be extremely careful now - he did not see himself in great danger because he still owed the Corleonesians a large sum of money, which they should receive as proceeds from a drug deal. On May 11, 1981, however, he was murdered: when he stepped out of his mistress' house and tried to get into his bulletproof car, he was struck down by several volleys from a Kalashnikov . The exact same weapon had been used in the murder of Bontade; In 1982 it was also used in the murder of General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa . It is believed that it was served by Pino Greco , a feared and enormously brutal mafioso. Following these executions by the two bosses, hundreds of their loyal "soldiers" were murdered. Salvatore Inzerillos' son, two of his brothers, and an uncle were also killed. The traitors within the family, such as Inzerillo's vice boss Salvatore Montalto, survived and immediately rose in the hierarchy.

The surviving Inzerillos fled to the US, from where they returned to Palermo a few years ago, which again sparked conflict. The Corleonesi alliance, which has ruled the Cosa Nostra since the 1980s, revealed tensions over the question of how to deal with the “returnees”.

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personal data
SURNAME Inzerillo, Salvatore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sicilian mafioso
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1981
Place of death Palermo