Boss of Bosses (48 page)

see also
Liggio
,
Luciano
; Provenzano, Bernardo

Riina, Salvo (son of Salvatore Riina),
194
,
199–200

Riolo, Giorgio,
206
,
210–11
,
213–15

Rizzotto, Placido,
13–14

Rocca Busambra (nr Corleone),
18
,
20

Rome:

San Giovanni bombing,
121

ROS (Ragruppamento Operativo Speciale),
130
,
138
,
140
,
202
,
210
,
214

Rotolo, Nino,
159
,
160
,
174
,
244–7
,
266

Ruffino, Giuseppe,
13
,
21

Russo, Giuseppe,
35
,
72

Sabella, Alfonso:

on Salvatore Riina,
41–2
,
69
,
71

hunt for bombers,
118

Salvatore Barbagallo’s collaboration,
125

and Villabate feud,
125–6

issuing of arrest warrants,
129

and Vito Vitale,
142

Provenzano and Mafia prisoners,
244

Sabella, Marzia,
8–9
,
257–9

Salvo family,
29

Salvo, Ignazio,
122

Salvo, Nino,
32

San Giuseppe lato (town),
22
,
30
,
36
,
112
,
136
,
142

Santa Maria di Gesù (town),
75
,
80

Santa Teresa Clinic (Bagheria),
222

Santapaola, Nitto (‘the Hunter’),
56
,
103
,
234

Santino, Umberto,
154

scappati
(fugitives)
see
Inzerillo family

SCO (Servizio Centrale Operativo),
152
,
233–4

Segno
(Catholic magazine),
150

Sicilian Vespers (anti-Mafia operation),
108

Siino, Angelo (‘the Builder’),
56
,
63
,
67
,
108
,
156
,
222

Socialist Party (PSI),
74–6
,
77
,
156
,
167

Southern League (political group),
162–3

Spera, Benedetto:

as ally of Provenzano,
123

struggle with Pieruccio Lo Bianco,
126
,
178

as fugitive,
176–7
,
178

rivalry with Ciccio Pastoia,
179–80
,
225

arrest,
182

Splendor (Angelo Provenzano’s launderette),
94
,
189
,
194
,
196–7
,
240

Stanfa family,
209

Streva, Francesco,
17–18

Tavolino (‘Round Table’; Mafia public works cartel),
63–4

Terranova, Cesare,
20
,
37

Tolentino, Angelo,
176–7
,
205

‘Tractor, the’
see
Provenzano,
Bernardo

Trapani (town),
49
,
59
,
74
,
82
,
89

Trioio, Ugo,
35

Troia, Gaspare,
220
,
222
,
224
,
229
,
230

Troia, Salvatore,
222–3
,
224

Ucciardone prison (Palermo),
107

UDC (centre-right political party),
213

Umina, Carmelo,
202
,
207

Umina, Salvatore,
207

Vaccaro, Lorenzo,
135

Vaccaro, Mimmo,
133

Valguarnera (town),
101

via Bernini (Palermo),
113

via Colletti (Corleone),
87

via Libertà (Palermo),
63

via Marconi (Ficarazzi),
226

via Scorsone (Corleone),
193

viale Lazio massacre (Palermo),
23–4
,
47

viale Strasburgo (Palermo),
50

Vicari (village),
207

Villa Cattolica (Bagheria),
53

Villa dei Mostri (Bagheria),
57

Villa Valquarnera (Bagheria),
57

Villabate (town),
58
,
124–6
,
156
,
169–72

Violante, Luciano,
118
,
269

Virga, Domenico,
207
,
208

Vitale, Giusy 103,
114

Vitale, Leonardo,
103
,
114

Vitale, Vito,
103
,
114
,
142–3

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Bernardo Provenzano after his arrest on 11 April 2006, after forty-three years on the run. ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’, he told police.

The sheep farm near Corleone where Provenzano lived for a year before he was finally arrested. The two men are by the door to his hideout. The owner had put up a TV arial for him, and built on a new bathroom.

Bernardo Provenzano (known as ‘the Tractor’): police mugshot after his arrest for stealing cheese and cattle rustling in 1958, aged twenty-five. During his four decades as a fugitive this was the only image the police had to go on.

Bernardo Provenzano (by now known as ‘the Accountant’): police mugshot, 2006, aged seventy-three. He had been convicted in his absence of twenty-one murders and been given three life sentences.

Provenzano before leaving for his brief military service in the air force, 1954. He was dismissed after only six months on grounds of ill health, with a record of good conduct.

Totò Riina as a young man, pictured on his ID card. He and Provenzano grew up in Luciano Liggio’s gang of cattle rustlers and became his joint lieutenants in the Corleone mafia.

Totò Riina, already a wanted criminal, in Venice in the 1970s. Riina and his family lived in hiding for decades as he and Provenzano built their empire, straying from home only on exceptional occasions and, apparently, holidays.