Viale Lazio massacre
1969 Mafia killing in Palermo, Sicily / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Viale Lazio massacre on 10 December 1969 was a settling of accounts in the Sicilian Mafia. Mafia boss Michele Cavataio and three men were killed in the Viale Lazio in Palermo, Sicily, by a Mafia hit squad. The bloodbath marked the end of a pax mafiosa that had reigned since the Ciaculli massacre until the end of the Trial of the 114 against Cosa Nostra.
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Location | Office in the Viale Lazio in Palermo, Sicily |
Date | 10 December 1969 7:30 p.m. (Central European Time) |
Target | Michele Cavataio, Mafia boss of the Acquasanta quarter of Palermo. |
Attack type | Massacre |
Deaths | Five killed |
Perpetrators | Mafia hit squad composed of Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Bagarella, Emanuele D’Agostino, Damiano Caruso (mafioso), Gaetano Grado and Salvatore Riina. |
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