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Bernardo Provenzano
Bernardo Provenzano (born January 31, 1933) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia (La Cosa Nostra) and is suspected of being the head of the Corleonesi, a Mafia Family from the village of Corleone, and as such, de facto capo di tutti capi (Boss of Bosses) of the entire Sicilian Mafia.
He was captured by police near the village of Corleone on April 11, 2006 after 43 years of evasion.
His nickname is Binnu u tratturi (the farm tractor) because, in the words of one informant, 'he mows people down'. Another nickname is The Accountant due to his apparently subtle and low-key approach to running his crime empire, at least in contrast to some of his more violent predecessors.
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La Repubblica
April 9, 2018
... l'omicidio di Aldo Moro; l'uccisione del capo della Squadra mobile di Palermo Giorgio Boris Giuliano; le stragi di Capaci e di via D'Amelio; i pizzini di Bernardo Provenzano; il conflitto a fuoco e la morte del terrorista di Berlino, Anis Amri. Sono alcuni dei Frammenti di Storia - L'Italia attraverso le impronte,Ãâà...
Themis & Metis
March 26, 2018
E con l'analisi una scoperta: perche' nel 1995 a Mezzojuso (il mio paese), la piu' blasonata delle nostre polizie speciali (gesta-spezial, po-polizei), il Ros-Gestapo, non catturo' Bernardo Provenzano ? Perche' Mezzojuso e' una enclave albanese e da Tirana non arrivo' per tempo l'estradizione. Io pero'Ãâà...
The Local Italy
March 14, 2018
Hunted by police since 1993, Messina Denaro, who turns 56 next month, is considered to be the successor of historic Cosa Nostra bosses Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, both of whom died recently in prison. A former Cosa Nostra hitman, Messina Denaro was sentenced in absentia to life in prisonÃâà...
ANSA
March 13, 2018
As well as helping to support Messina Denaro's life as a fugitive, much of this money was ploughed into the wind-farm business, prosecutors said. Messina Denaro, 55, has been on the run since 1993 and is considered Cosa Nostra's boss of bosses following the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016Ãâà...
ANSA
March 13, 2018
Messina Denaro, 55, has been on the run since 1993 and is considered Cosa Nostra's boss of bosses following the deaths of Bernardo Provenzano in 2016 and Salvatore Riina in 2017. He is on Europol's list of Europe's most wanted fugitives. He has not been seen in public in over 20 years. An informantÃâà...
ANSA
February 21, 2018
(ANSA) - Rome, February 21 - The Sicilian Mafia is not beaten, former national anti-mafia prosecutor Pietro Grasso said Wednesday. Grasso, now leader of the leftwing Free and Equal (LeU) party, said "the mafia is not only history. "The mass-killing mafia of (the late Bernardo) Provenzano and (the lateÃâà...
New York Times
July 15, 2016
Bernardo Provenzano, the godfather of Sicily's flesh-and-blood Corleone crime family who eluded the police for 43 years and who was a convicted conspirator in the murder of Italy's two leading Mafia prosecutors, died on Wednesday in Milan. He was 83. His lawyer, Rosalba Di Gregorio, said he had beenÃâà...
The Guardian
July 14, 2016
Bernardo Provenzano, who has died aged 83 in a secure hospital ward, was the former boss of the Corleone clan, once the most vicious and voracious of the Sicilian mafia families. He had been imprisoned in solitary confinement since 2006, serving a number of life sentences for murder. Provenzano wasÃâà...
Jamaica Observer
December 31, 1999
2006: Police arrest three people suspected of aiding Italy's No 1 fugitive and reputed Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, who is captured a day earlier after more than four decades on the run. 2007: A suicide attacker blows himself up in the lunchroom at Iraq's Parliament, killing eight people, including atÃâà...
The Times
December 31, 1999
The widow of Corleone's “boss of bosses” Bernardo Provenzano, has also come clean, handing over €1,100 to have her refuse collected. The payment was seen as a huge victory in Corleone where Mob families have traditionally regarded paying taxes as beneath them, convinced that they have the rightÃâà...
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