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May 24, 2012 · More than 60 years after he was killed for challenging the Mafia in his hometown, Sicilian leader Placido Rizzotto is finally being laid to rest, the BBC's Alan Johnston reports.
A 12-year-old shepherd, Giuseppe Letizia, witnessed Rizzotto's murder and was killed the following day with a lethal injection, made by a Mafia doctor named Michele Navarra. In the 1960s, Leggio was acquitted twice of Rizzotto's murder due to lack of evidence.
Mar 14, 2024 · Rizzotto was abducted by a group of Mafiosi in 1948, driven to a nearby location where he was beaten and tortured before being shot and killed by Mafia boss Liccio Liggio with two bullets to the head.
May 24, 2012 · Placido Rizzotto had sided with local farm labourers in a confrontation with the mafiosi. He had challenged the gangsters in their heartland, and they had murdered him.
In 1948, an Italian partisan named Placido Rizzotto was murdered by a mafia boss. His body was hidden. In the 60s, the boss was acquitted twice of Rizzotto's murder due to lack of evidence. Finally, in 2009, Rizzotto’s remains were found on a cliff. In 2012, a DNA test confirmed they were his.
May 29, 2012 · Placido Rizzotto, a union representative, was buried last Thursday in an Italian state funeral taking place near Palermo in the town of Corleone, more than six decades after he was killed by the mafia. In 1948, Rizzotto, was just 34 when he was murdered for his work organising peasant land occupations, trying to help farmers take over unfarmed ...
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Placido Rizzotto, an Italian man who was murdered 64 years ago after making a courageous stand against the Mafia in the 1940s, is now being given a state funeral. The BBC's Rome correspondent...
