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lilibayЕсть на Белом Свете люди с развитой интуицией, а может их персональный Ангел ведёт по жизни не смыкая глаз.
Набрёл в Вики на персонажа, который в бурной своей жизни пережил всех друзей и врагов, выжил в мясорубке Mattanza, обошёл все расставленные ловушки, не поверил ни одному предателю, стал pentiti, отказался от программы защиты свидетеля, отомстил врагам и остался всё тем же брутальным mafioso каковым и был всегда. Все с кем он начинал, лежат в могиле убитые врагами, все с кем воевал лежат в могиле убитые своими или заживо похороненные в 41-bis prison regime. А какие люди на него охотились: Bernardo Provenzano head of the Corleonesi. His nickname is Binnu u tratturi (Sicilian for "Binnie the tractor"). Salvatore "Totò" Riina . Fellow mobsters nicknamed him The Beast (La Belva) due to his violent nature, or sometimes The Short One (U curtu) due to his diminutive stature, his height is listed as 1.58 m (5-ft-2).
Его должны были растворить в кислоте ещё в далёком 1981 году, вместе с пятью другими коллегами по борьбе на "мирной встрече", но "чуйка" сработала. Он не пошёл на встречу и один остался жить. Corleonesi за ним охотились как за зверем в горах Сицилии, охотились на друзей и родственников по жестоким законам вендеты, но друзья не предали и враги не нашли. Так провести свой корабль жизни через Большой Барьерный Риф одного умения мало, должно быть Счастье в помощь.
Salvatore "Totuccio" Contorno
Contorno was born in Palermo. In 1975, the butcher Totuccio Contorno was initiated in the Santa Maria di Gesù Mafia family in Palermo, then led by Stefano Bontade, an influential member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission. Contorno became a cigarette smuggler and heroin trafficker.
Second Mafia War
During the Second Mafia War — when the Corleonesi Mafia clan of Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano attacked the established Mafia families of Palermo — the Corleonesi killed Contorno’s boss, Stefano Bontade, in April 1981. They went on to eliminate other members of the Santa Maria di Gesù family that were lured to the estate of Michele Greco where they were wiped out. Contorno did not turn up to the fateful meeting at Greco's estate. He sensed trouble and went into hiding.
On July 25, 1981, Contorno narrowly escaped a murder attempt by Pino Greco "scarpuzzedda" and Giuseppe Lucchese — the favourite hitmen of the Corleonesi. The Corleonesi employed a scorched earth policy to hunt down Contorno, killing his relatives and friends, to prevent them from hiding him. Despite this approach, they were unable to find him, which earned Contorno the nickname Coriolano della Floresta, a kind of popular Sicilian version of Robin Hood.
Police informer
While in hiding from both the authorities and the Corleonesi, Contorno sent anonymous letters to the police, revealing information on the Mafia, its members, the various factions and the violent turmoil it was undergoing. Police Superintendent Antonino Ninni Cassarà developed a relationship with Contorno as an informant, code-naming him Fonte di Prima Luce (Source of First Light).
Contorno was arrested on March 23, 1982 in Rome where he had gone to prepare the murder of Giuseppe Pippo Calò who Contorno held responsible for the murder of his boss Stefano Bontade. "Too bad I didn’t succeed," he said during the Maxi Trial. The arrest probably saved his life, making Contorno one of the few survivors of the losing factions in the Second Mafia War This was summed up b Salvatore Contorno ho, when asked at th Maxi Trial bout the 'winners' and 'losers' of the Second Mafia War, declared that "The winning and losing clans don't exist, because the losers don't exist. They, the Corleonesi, killed them all."
Pentito and Maxi Trial
Despite his arrest Contorno refused to collaborate any more with Cassarà and Falcone. After the decision of Tommaso Buscetta to collaborate, Contorno changed his mind. According to some, Buscetta met Contorno who supposedly fell to his knees and kissed Buscetta hand. Buscetta allegedly put his hand on his shoulder and said: “It’s all right, Totuccio, you can talk.” He testified in a rapid, often incomprehensible specific Palermitan dialect and Mafia jargon that had to be translated for the official record. He held the court room captivated with his open contempt for the brotherhood he had once belonged to. Now, he said it was "just a gang of bullies and murderers." They had killed a dozen of his direct relatives.
Pizza Connection Trial
Contorno was a key witness in the Pizza Connection Trial. He agreed to testify in return for entry in the US Witness Protection Program (in Italy there was no such programme at the time). He gave the evidence that directly linked the defendants to heroin trafficking.The defence suggested in the cross-examination that Contorno, who feared that he would be killed in Italy, made up his testimony about the meeting to please Federal prosecutors who put him in a protection program in the United States.
Back in Sicily
Contorno could not adjust to life in the Witness Protection Program the US and was unable to support his family. He returned to Italy in November 1988. On May 26, 1989 Contorno was arrested again in a hide out in an area called the triangle of death (Bagheria, Altavilla and Casteldaccia) near Palermo together with his cousin Gaetano Grado and a cache of weapons.In the previous weeks members of the winning factions of the Second Mafia War allied with the Corleonesi had been killed and the police suspected the raided hide out had something to do with the killings. Examination of the weapons showed that they were not used in the murders.The affair became a scandal in July 1989 when anonymous letters signed by "il corvo" (literally "raven", but meaning "provocateur") claimed that prosecuting judge Giovanni Falcone and his close collaborator, police inspector Gianni De Gennaro, had organised Contorno’s secret return from protective custody in the US to Sicily to start a state sponsored vendetta against the Corleonesi. The allegations against Falcone and De Gennaro proved to be a hoax.
In and out witness protection programme
Contorno was removed from the Italian witness protection programme, but re-admitted in 2001. In November 2004, Contorno was arrested again for extorting a former fellow cellmate, but the charges were dropped. While Contorno was expelled from the Mafia because he collaborated with the Italian authorities, mentally the streetwise ruffian remained a mafioso, which is the only reality he knows. According to the writer Leonardo Sciascia, Contorno lived inside the world of the Mafia "the way the rest of us live inside our own skin, as if the Mafia were a state into which you were born and always remained a citizen of."
Набрёл в Вики на персонажа, который в бурной своей жизни пережил всех друзей и врагов, выжил в мясорубке Mattanza, обошёл все расставленные ловушки, не поверил ни одному предателю, стал pentiti, отказался от программы защиты свидетеля, отомстил врагам и остался всё тем же брутальным mafioso каковым и был всегда. Все с кем он начинал, лежат в могиле убитые врагами, все с кем воевал лежат в могиле убитые своими или заживо похороненные в 41-bis prison regime. А какие люди на него охотились: Bernardo Provenzano head of the Corleonesi. His nickname is Binnu u tratturi (Sicilian for "Binnie the tractor"). Salvatore "Totò" Riina . Fellow mobsters nicknamed him The Beast (La Belva) due to his violent nature, or sometimes The Short One (U curtu) due to his diminutive stature, his height is listed as 1.58 m (5-ft-2).
Его должны были растворить в кислоте ещё в далёком 1981 году, вместе с пятью другими коллегами по борьбе на "мирной встрече", но "чуйка" сработала. Он не пошёл на встречу и один остался жить. Corleonesi за ним охотились как за зверем в горах Сицилии, охотились на друзей и родственников по жестоким законам вендеты, но друзья не предали и враги не нашли. Так провести свой корабль жизни через Большой Барьерный Риф одного умения мало, должно быть Счастье в помощь.
Salvatore "Totuccio" Contorno
Contorno was born in Palermo. In 1975, the butcher Totuccio Contorno was initiated in the Santa Maria di Gesù Mafia family in Palermo, then led by Stefano Bontade, an influential member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission. Contorno became a cigarette smuggler and heroin trafficker.
Second Mafia War
During the Second Mafia War — when the Corleonesi Mafia clan of Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano attacked the established Mafia families of Palermo — the Corleonesi killed Contorno’s boss, Stefano Bontade, in April 1981. They went on to eliminate other members of the Santa Maria di Gesù family that were lured to the estate of Michele Greco where they were wiped out. Contorno did not turn up to the fateful meeting at Greco's estate. He sensed trouble and went into hiding.
On July 25, 1981, Contorno narrowly escaped a murder attempt by Pino Greco "scarpuzzedda" and Giuseppe Lucchese — the favourite hitmen of the Corleonesi. The Corleonesi employed a scorched earth policy to hunt down Contorno, killing his relatives and friends, to prevent them from hiding him. Despite this approach, they were unable to find him, which earned Contorno the nickname Coriolano della Floresta, a kind of popular Sicilian version of Robin Hood.
Police informer
While in hiding from both the authorities and the Corleonesi, Contorno sent anonymous letters to the police, revealing information on the Mafia, its members, the various factions and the violent turmoil it was undergoing. Police Superintendent Antonino Ninni Cassarà developed a relationship with Contorno as an informant, code-naming him Fonte di Prima Luce (Source of First Light).
Contorno was arrested on March 23, 1982 in Rome where he had gone to prepare the murder of Giuseppe Pippo Calò who Contorno held responsible for the murder of his boss Stefano Bontade. "Too bad I didn’t succeed," he said during the Maxi Trial. The arrest probably saved his life, making Contorno one of the few survivors of the losing factions in the Second Mafia War This was summed up b Salvatore Contorno ho, when asked at th Maxi Trial bout the 'winners' and 'losers' of the Second Mafia War, declared that "The winning and losing clans don't exist, because the losers don't exist. They, the Corleonesi, killed them all."
Pentito and Maxi Trial
Despite his arrest Contorno refused to collaborate any more with Cassarà and Falcone. After the decision of Tommaso Buscetta to collaborate, Contorno changed his mind. According to some, Buscetta met Contorno who supposedly fell to his knees and kissed Buscetta hand. Buscetta allegedly put his hand on his shoulder and said: “It’s all right, Totuccio, you can talk.” He testified in a rapid, often incomprehensible specific Palermitan dialect and Mafia jargon that had to be translated for the official record. He held the court room captivated with his open contempt for the brotherhood he had once belonged to. Now, he said it was "just a gang of bullies and murderers." They had killed a dozen of his direct relatives.
Pizza Connection Trial
Contorno was a key witness in the Pizza Connection Trial. He agreed to testify in return for entry in the US Witness Protection Program (in Italy there was no such programme at the time). He gave the evidence that directly linked the defendants to heroin trafficking.The defence suggested in the cross-examination that Contorno, who feared that he would be killed in Italy, made up his testimony about the meeting to please Federal prosecutors who put him in a protection program in the United States.
Back in Sicily
Contorno could not adjust to life in the Witness Protection Program the US and was unable to support his family. He returned to Italy in November 1988. On May 26, 1989 Contorno was arrested again in a hide out in an area called the triangle of death (Bagheria, Altavilla and Casteldaccia) near Palermo together with his cousin Gaetano Grado and a cache of weapons.In the previous weeks members of the winning factions of the Second Mafia War allied with the Corleonesi had been killed and the police suspected the raided hide out had something to do with the killings. Examination of the weapons showed that they were not used in the murders.The affair became a scandal in July 1989 when anonymous letters signed by "il corvo" (literally "raven", but meaning "provocateur") claimed that prosecuting judge Giovanni Falcone and his close collaborator, police inspector Gianni De Gennaro, had organised Contorno’s secret return from protective custody in the US to Sicily to start a state sponsored vendetta against the Corleonesi. The allegations against Falcone and De Gennaro proved to be a hoax.
In and out witness protection programme
Contorno was removed from the Italian witness protection programme, but re-admitted in 2001. In November 2004, Contorno was arrested again for extorting a former fellow cellmate, but the charges were dropped. While Contorno was expelled from the Mafia because he collaborated with the Italian authorities, mentally the streetwise ruffian remained a mafioso, which is the only reality he knows. According to the writer Leonardo Sciascia, Contorno lived inside the world of the Mafia "the way the rest of us live inside our own skin, as if the Mafia were a state into which you were born and always remained a citizen of."
