Salvatore Lo Piccolo
Salvatore Lo Piccolo (born July 20, 1942 in Palermo ), nicknamed Il barone , is a currently imprisoned leader of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra . After almost 25 years of fleeing, he was arrested in November 2007.
Life
Salvatore Lo Piccolo grew up in the small Sicilian town of San Lorenzo near Noto . In addition to this area, he later also controlled the northwest of Sicily. Initially, Lo Piccolo worked as a building contractor in San Lorenzo. He was also the bodyguard and driver of the Mafia boss Rosario Riccobono until he was killed in the Second Great Mafia War in the 1980s . Salvatore Lo Piccolo sided with the Corleonesi clan and the Cosa Nostra, who had emerged victorious from this fight. At first he was in the service of Salvatore "Totò" Riina , after his arrest by Bernardo Provenzano. He rose to be Provenzano's deputy; after his arrest in April 2006, he became, according to the police, the top leader of the Cosa Nostra. Lo Piccolo took control of the Trapani region from his rival Matteo Messina Denaro . He is also said to have good contacts with the Mafia in the USA .
In 1998 he was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for murder and Mafia membership.
After he had been on the run since 1983 and was one of the thirty most wanted Mafiosi in Italy, he was killed by police forces on November 5, 2007, together with his son Sandro, who is considered his deputy, and two other leading clan members (Andrea Adamo and Gaspare Pulizzi) were arrested in Giardinello near Palermo. There were eight arrest warrants against him.
In February 2006, the Italian police - on the orders of prosecutor Roberto Scarpinato - houses, land and accounts of Salvatore Lo Piccolo and Bernardo Provenzano worth 150 million € confiscated .
Individual evidence
- ^ "Mafia boss Lo Piccolo caught in Sicily" , Spiegel Online , November 5, 2007
- ↑ "Treasures of the Mafia Confiscated" dpa ( ANSA ); Weser-Kurier No. 45 of February 22, 2008; P. 7
Web links
- "" Dad, I love you! "" Report on Lo Piccolo's arrest and (political) background information of Petra Reski in the time of 7 November 2007
- "Findings upon arrest: Police discover the ten commandments of the Mafia" , Spiegel Online, November 9, 2007
- "Direzione Centrale della Polizia Criminale -" Programma Speciale di Ricerca "- LO PICCOLO SALVATORE" (Italian language)
- "Palermo, catturati i boss Lo Piccolo" November 5, 2007 (Italian language)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lo Piccolo, Salvatore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Il barone |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian leader of the Cosa Nostra |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palermo |