Pizzolungo massacre

Pizzolungo massacre

Pizzolungo massacre is the massacre caused by the mafia at a suburb of Trapani, in Sicily, to kill the magistrate Carlo Palermo in 1985.

The massacre

When Carlo Palermo decided in 1985 to move to Trapani (Sicily), to continue his investigations in their connections with the mafia, after few months mafia tried to wipe out him by means of a car-bomb attack, and killed a young woman, Barbara Asta, and her little sons, the twin-brothers Salvatore and Giuseppe, that were near the place of the explosion. This episode is called the "strage di Pizzolungo (Pizzolungo massacre)" of 1985 (Pizzolungo is a suburb of Trapani). Palermo was only injured, and after some time he decided to resign from his magistrature. [A. Stille, "Excellent Cadavers", Vintage Books, New York 1995, p. 204]

ee also

*Carlo Palermo
*Paolo Borsellino
*Giovanni Falcone

External links

*it [http://www.narcomafie.it/articoli_2005/art2_04_2005.htm Interview to Margherita Asta, "Narcomafie" 2005]

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