Salvatore La Barbera

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Salvatore La Barbera (born April 20, 1922 in Palermo , † January 17, 1963 ) was a high-ranking member of the Sicilian mafia .

Together with his brother Angelo La Barbera , his career in the Palermo Mafia family began with minor thefts. He worked himself u. a. through murders quickly up the hierarchy and eventually led the influential mafia clan Palermo Centro with his brother . The La Barbera brothers created one of the richest mafia clans and controlled much of the urban building program in Palermo. The Italian Salvatore La Barbera was a member of the first Sicilian Mafia Commission from 1958 to 1963. Salvatore La Barbera was a key player in the First Great Mafia War of the Cosa Nostra , during which he disappeared without a trace in the wake of a Lupara Bianca . The investigative authorities of Palermo suspected that Tommaso Buscetta murdered his former friend Salvatore La Barbera after a suggestion by the Greco cousins ​​and burned it in a furnace of the La Barberas glass factory, which the later Pentito Buscetta denied.

Films and documentaries

  • 2007: The Boss of the Bosses (OT: Il capo dei capi ) : 6-part series about the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, in which the second episode shows the kidnapping and murder of La Barbera.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gaia Servadio, Angelo-La Barbera: the profile of a Mafia boss, Quartett Books, 1974
  2. ^ The honorable society, report on the mafia and the La Barbera brothers , Der Spiegel
  3. ^ John Dickie: Cosa nostra: The history of the Mafia, Frankfurt a. M. 2006, Fischer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-596-17106-4
  4. ↑ Gaia Servadio: Mafioso. A history of the Mafia from its origins to the present day , Secker & Warburg, 1976
personal data
SURNAME La Barbera, Salvatore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sicilian mafioso
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1963