Giuseppe Nirta (19 October 1940 – 23 February 2023) was an Italian mobster from
San Luca
San Luca is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about east of Reggio Calabria. The town is situated on the eastern slopes of the Aspromonte mount ...
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who was the boss of the
'Ndrangheta
The 'Ndrangheta (, , ) is a prominent Italian Mafia-type organized crime syndicate and secret society, criminal society based in the peninsular and mountainous region of Calabria and dating back to the late 18th century. It is considered one of ...
, and the head of the Nirta clan.
The Nirta clan is allied with the Strangio clan in a vendetta against the Pelle-Vottari-Romeo families known as the so-called
San Luca feud The San Luca feud or Vendetta of San Luca is a long-running conflict between two clans of the 'Ndrangheta crime organisation that began in 1991 in Italy's Calabria region in the village of San Luca.
History
The two involved clans, the Strangio-Ni ...
. The bloody feud between the clans began in February 1991 during a carnival celebration in San Luca when anger over an egg-throwing incident boiled over and culminated in the killing of two members of the Strangio-Nirta clan and the wounding of two others.
[San Luca clan chief caught]
ANSA, 23 May 2008
The feud re-exploded after a seven-year lull at Christmas 2006 when gunmen ambushed the Nirta’s son
Giovanni Luca Nirta Giovanni may refer to:
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. He escaped unharmed but his wife Maria Strangio – a cousin of
Giovanni Strangio
Giovanni Strangio (; born January 3, 1979) is a member of the 'Ndrangheta born in Siderno, Calabria. Starting from 2007, he was included on the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy as well as in Germany,[Bruno Pizzata
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, a member of the Pelle-Vottari clan, on 4 January 2007.
['Ndrangheta, arrestato Giuseppe Nirta]
Corriere della Sera, 23 May 2008
The vendetta attracted international attention on 15 August 2007, when six men belonging to the Pelle-Romeo clan were shot dead in their cars in front of a pizzeria near
Duisburg
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train station in western Germany.
Nirta was one of Italy's 100 most wanted criminals and arrested on 23 May 2008. He was hiding in a bunker in San Luca.
[ On 12 July 2011, the Criminal Court in Locri sentenced Nirta to life imprisonment for the Duisburg killings.
Nirta died of heart disease on 23 February 2023, at the age of 82.]
References
External links
The Italian police arrests Giuseppe Nirta, one of Italy's most-wanted mafia fugitives
Euro News, 24 May 2008 (video)
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1940 births
2023 deaths
'Ndranghetisti
People from San Luca
'Ndranghetisti sentenced to life imprisonment
People convicted of murder by Italy