Antonino Scopelliti (; Campo Calabro, 20 January 1935 – Piale, 9 August 1991) was an

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prosecuting

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, murdered by the

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on behalf of the

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.Italian parliament looks to the future
The Independent, April 22, 1993 He was a prosecutor at the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione). While on holiday visiting his family in Calabria, he was ambushed on a road on 9 August 1991. At the time he was preparing to argue the government’s case in the final appeal of the

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against Cosa Nostra for the Supreme Court. The reason for the killing was to hold up the trial so that the Mafia bosses' legal terms of detention would expire and they would be freed.Stille, ''Excellent Cadavers'', p. 344 The crime still remains unsolved. Two trials were held at the Court of Reggio Calabria against Mafia boss

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and thirteen of the so-called Sicilian Mafia Commission, and a second trial against Bernardo Provenzano and nine other bosses of the Commission, including Filippo and

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Raffaele Ganci Raffaele Ganci (4 January 1932 – 3 June 2022) was a member of the Mafia in Sicily from the Noce neighbourhood in Palermo. He was considered to be the right-hand man of Cosa Nostra boss Totò Riina and sat on the Sicilian Mafia Commission.

, Giuseppe Farinella,

Antonino Giuffrè Antonino "Nino" Giuffrè (; born 21 July 1945) is an Italian former mafioso who later became a justice collaborator. The head of the mandamento of Caccamo, he was the second-highest ranked member of Cosa Nostra. He became one of the most importa ...

and Nitto Santapaola. All were convicted at first instance in 1996 and 1998 and subsequently acquitted in the Court of Appeals in 1998 and 2000 because the testimonies of the seventeen government witnesses were conflicting. His daughter Rosanna Scopelliti is the national coordinator of Ammazzateci tutti (

for "Kill Us All"), an Italian Antimafia

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created in

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(South of Italy) at the end of 2005 against the

.History of the Movement
Kill Us All website (Accessed April 1, 2010)

References

* Stille, Alexander (1995). ''Excellent Cadavers. The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic'', New York: Vintage

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Fondazione "Antonino Scopelliti"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scopelliti, Antonio 1935 births 1991 deaths Assassinated Italian judges 20th-century Italian judges People murdered in Calabria People murdered by the 'Ndrangheta People from the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria

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