Antonio di Ciocco (died July 1984) was a politician in

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, Canada. He served as mayor of the suburban community of Saint-Leonard from 1981 to 1984 and was also chair of the ''

Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer The Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer was a Catholic school board located on the Island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. It oversaw French and English schools in the former independent municipalities of Anjou, Saint-Leonard, and Montreal-Est a ...

'' from 1980 to 1983. Di Ciocco was first elected as mayor of Saint-Leonard in a 1981

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, which was held after incumbent mayor

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was elected to the

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. Di Ciocco was re-elected in the 1982 municipal election, in the course of which his ''

Équipe du renouveau de la cité de Saint-Léonard The Équipe du renouveau de la cité de Saint-Léonard (English: Municipal Renewal Party of Saint-Leonard) was a political party based in the suburban community of Saint-Leonard in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It existed from 1978 to 1984, and was the ...

'' won nine out of twelve seats on council. He was the target of a

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in 1983, an act that he described as political intimidation. No one was inside the vehicle at the time. A

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in the Parc-Garibali

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was named after him He died of

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in July 1984, at age thirty-three.David Wimhurst, "After the bombing: St. Leonard market merchants determined to regain business," ''Montreal Gazette'', 30 January 1985, X3.

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