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Palma, Anna,
141–142
,
144
Palma di Montechiaro,
142
Panico clan,
220
,
222
Pannunzi, Alessandro and Roberto,
43
Paolillo, Alessandro,
234
,
235
Paolillo, Francesco,
223–224
,
230–231
,
234
,
235
Paraguay,
42
Partanna village,
162–164
Patriarchy,
170–171
Paul VI (Pope),
97
Pelle, Antonio,
157
,
158
Pelle, Giuseppe,
61–62
Pelle-Vottari clan,
39
,
55
,
61
,
119
,
152
,
153
bunker of,
57–58
People trafficking,
39
,
75
Peru,
42
,
50
Pianos prison,
136
Piccolo, Salvatore Lo,
89
Pio La Torre law,
143
Pizzini
(notes),
211
Pizzitola, Father Vincenzo,
100–101
,
102
Poland,
229
Police,
5
,
12
,
20
,
41
,
57
,
58
,
67
,
68
,
69
,
92
,
167–168
,
173
,
211
,
244
,
251
financial police,
224–225
,
230
in Germany,
125
,
150
,
152
,
154
(
see also
Germany: German vs. Italian investigators
)
See also
Carabinieri
Politicians. See
Mafia: political connections of
Polsi,
50–51
.
See also
Santa Maria di Polsi
Popolo della Libertà party,
77
Porta Nuova family,
7
,
8
,
9
,
11
Porto Empedocle,
142
Private clinics,
64
Processions,
59–60
,
83
,
93
,
193
,
238–240
and distribution of power,
103–104
Prodi government,
124
,
139
Pro Loco of San Giovanni di Gerace,
158
Property confiscations,
43
,
118
,
119
,
135
,
143
,
154
,
173
,
210
,
223
Prosecutors,
52
,
72
,
86
,
113
,
115
,
118–120
,
121
,
129
,
131
,
155
,
188
,
189
,
226
,
229
,
247
AntiMafia Pool,
113–114
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
142
prosecutors eliminated from AntiMafia Pool,
118
See also
Borsellino, Paolo
;
Falcone, Giovanni
;
Palma, Anna
Protection money,
50
,
61
,
126
,
133
,
184
,
193
,
246–247
Provenzano, Angelo,
201–202
Provenzano, Bernardo,
8
,
36
,
100
,
103
,
135
,
139
,
169–170
,
204
,
209–210
,
226
in hiding,
144
,
169
and religion,
88–89
sons of,
169
,
201–202
wife of,
47
,
102
Puglisi, Giuseppe,
104–105
Puzo, Mario,
147
Radio Capital,
209
Rai (Italian broadcaster),
48
,
243
Ramazzotti, Eros,
14
Reggio Calabria,
38
,
39
,
40
,
51
,
143
Palace of Justice in,
116–117
,
126
,
127
,
128
Religion,
4
,
19
,
46
,
56
,
85–89
,
170
,
209
,
232
commandments,
90
See also
Catholic Church
;
Processions
;
under
Mafia; Murders
Respect,
7
,
13
,
25
,
111
,
134
,
172
Resuttana clan,
184
Revenge campaigns,
167
Riccobono, Rosario,
11
Riina, Giovanni,
175
Riina, Giuseppe,
98–99
,
175
Riina, Totò,
8
,
11
,
21
,
22
,
32
,
88–89
,
100
,
103
,
104
,
108
,
134
,
137
,
172
,
181
,
199
,
210
,
211
,
242
sons of,
98–99
,
175
wife of (Antonietta),
102
,
173–174
Rizzotto, Placido,
101
Roberti, Franco,
229
Rome,
4
,
5
,
77
,
161
Romeo clan,
42
Rossi, Vasco,
213
,
241
Ruffini, Cardinal Ernesto,
97
Sabella, Marzia,
226
Salerno-Reggio motorway,
247
Salvo, Ignazio,
137
Salvo (taxi driver),
3
,
22
,
23–24
,
26
,
28
,
70
,
81
,
84
,
114
,
120–121
,
160
,
213
,
250–251
San Leoluca (saint),
101
San Luca,
39
,
40–44
,
55
,
59
,
117
,
119
,
151
,
152
,
153
,
166
,
167
,
188
San Martino (saint),
101
San Placido (saint),
101
,
103
Santa Maria del Carmelo,
83
Santa Maria della Pietà in Kalsa,
81
,
83
,
84
,
85
Santa Maria di Polsi (pilgrimage site),
50–51
,
53–54
,
55
Santapaola, Nitto,
88
Santa Rosalia,
103
Santa Rosalia, church of,
107–108
,
109
,
110
,
176–177
Sarno, Carmine,
217–225
,
230–231
,
233
Sarno, Ciro,
218
,
223
,
232
Saviano, Roberto,
229
Scarantino, Vincenzo,
181
Scarpinato, Roberto,
118
Schifani, Renato,
142
,
189
Schifani, Rosaria,
30–33
Schifani, Vito,
29
,
30
Schindler’s List
(film),
197–198
Sciascia, Leonardo,
167
Scopa
,
24
Scopelliti, Antonino,
86
Secret codes,
89–90
Selinunte,
52
Sentencing/imprisonment issues,
125
,
130–131
,
143
high-security detentions,
136
,
208
Servizio Centrale in Rome,
4
,
5
Shobha (photographer),
3
,
24
,
37–38
,
41
,
47
,
52–53
,
56
,
58
,
60
,
62
,
69–70
,
72
,
76
,
79
,
81
,
82
,
92–93
,
97
,
106–107
,
113
,
127
,
141
,
159–160
,
165
,
200
,
213
,
216–217
,
229–230
,
237
,
239
,
249–250
mother of,
26
,
62
.
See also
Battaglia, Letizia
ransacked house of,
187
Sicilcassa bank,
132
Sicilians/Sicily,
2
,
10
,
24
,
27
,
33
,
42
bridge between Sicily and mainland,
139
percentage of population in Mafia,
121
Sicilian language/dialect,
13
,
89
,
155
,
206
Sicula Brokers,
189
Slush funds,
227
Smuggling,
227
,
229
Socialist Party,
134
,
135
Solidarność
activists,
69
South/Central America,
42
,
43
Spain,
43
Sprenger, Heinz,
149–150
,
151–152
,
154–155
Stein, Edith,
87
Strangio, Don Pino.
See
Don Pino
Strangio, Maria,
153
Strangio, Sebastiano,
48
,
151
Superglue,
246
Surveyors’ architecture,
29
Tangentopoli scandal,
135
Tax avoidance,
227
Terremotati
,
223
Toxic waste,
216
Trapani,
68
,
169
,
238–240
,
243
Trimboli, “Don Micu,”
43
Turncoats,
4
,
6
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
14
,
15–16
,
21
,
64
,
83
,
86
,
88
,
91
,
100
,
103
,
133
,
135
,
136–137
,
169
,
182
,
184
,
185
,
187
,
201
,
205
,
210
,
215
,
232
father of murdered child as
turncoat,
242
first turncoat boss,
8
Marcello Fava’s godfather as turncoat,
15–16
,
17
Ucciardone prison,
37
,
72
,
84
,
165
maxi-trial in,
73–74
,
208
,
209
trials of Falcone and Borsellino murderers in,
165
Uruguay,
42
,
50
Value systems,
95
,
169
Vatican Bank,
9
Vendetta,
167
Venezuela,
42
,
50
,
245
Vitale, Giusy,
169

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