Interprovincial Commission
The Interprovincial Commission (Italian: Commissione interprovinciale), also known as "Regione", "commissione regionale" or "cupola regionale") is a governing body of
History
The first "Interprovincial Commission" was created in '50s by the boss of
Calderone was appointed to manage the Commission: it was decided that only the mafiosi delegates of every Sicilian province, except Messina, Siracusa and Ragusa, had to participate in the commission. These delegates imposed the prohibition to execute kidnapping in Sicily in order to stop extortion abductions carried out by Corleone clan led by Leggio.[3]
According to the pentito Antonino Calderone, at the beginning the "Regione" meetings occurred monthly in one of the several provinces, but hereafter they occurred always at the Michele Greco's farmstead in Ciaculli.[4]
In 1978 Calderone and Giuseppe Di Cristina were killed and the management of the "Commissione interprovinciale" went to Giuseppe Settecasi, but even him was murdered in 1981 during a mafia war in Agrigento province that saw the rising of the boss Carmelo Colletti, tied to Bernardo Provenzano, who became the new provincial delegate of Agrigento; so the management of the "Commissione interprovinciale" went to Greco, mafioso delegate of Palermo province because he managed the Cupola.[5][6]
According to the
See also
References
- ^ "Sentenza di primo grado per gli omicidi Reina-Mattarella-La Torre" (PDF) (in Italian).
- ^ (in Italian) Strutture – Cosa Nostra e 'Ndrangheta a confronto, pt. 5.3 Commissione regionale, Francesco Gaetano Moiraghi e Andrea Zolea, Wikimafia
- ^ lacndb.com::Italian Mafia
- ^ (in Italian) Interrogatorio del collaboratore di giustizia Antonino Calderone
- ^ "Ordinanza contro Michele Greco per gli omicidi Reina-Mattarella-La Torre" (PDF) (in Italian).
- ^ (in Italian) Valori, territorio, ambiente of Paolo Guidicini and Emanuele Sgroi