Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa
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Born | Saluzzo, Italy | 27 September 1920
Died | 3 September 1982 Palermo, Italy | (aged 61)
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Children | Nando, Rita, Simona |
Biography
Born in
In the foreword of the Argentine
Death
On May 1, 1982, dalla Chiesa was appointed as prefect for Palermo to stop the violence of the Second Mafia War. He was murdered in Palermo on the orders of Mafia boss Salvatore Riina. On the evening of September 3, 1982 Dalla Chiesa and his second wife Emanuela Setti Carraro were in an Autobianchi A112 driven by her. They were on their way to dinner in a restaurant in Mondello, when at 9:15 pm a Bmw 520 driven by Calogero Ganci with next to him Antonino Madonia flanked dalla Chiesa's car and from the passenger side Madonia exploded 30 rounds with an AK-47 assault rifle, killing both of them. At the same time, from a Honda Cb motorbike driven by Giuseppe Lucchese, Giuseppe Greco shot and mortally wounded with another AK-47, police officer Domenico Russo (dalla Chiesa's escort that evening) while he was driving a blue Alfa Romeo Alfetta (he would die in coma from his injuries on September 15, 1982).[2]
Dalla Chiesa was also investigating the death of Mauro De Mauro, a journalist who had himself been investigating the murder of Enrico Mattei, head of Agip, the Italian oil company.
Personal life
His son
See also
- Cento giorni a Palermo
- List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia
- Il Capo dei Capi
References
- ^ Nunca Más (Never Again) Archived October 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Report of Conadep (National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons), 1984
- ^ "Shock Therapy". Time. 20 September 1982
- ^ (in Italian) La lotta contro la mafia Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, website of the Carabinieri
- ^ (in Italian) Delitto Dalla Chiesa, Cassazione conferma ergastoli per boss Ganci e Lucchese[permanent dead link], La Sicilia, 12 May 2006.
- ^ Delitto Dalla Chiesa: ottavo ergastolo a Riina