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State-Mafia Pact
The term State-Mafia Pact (Italian language, Italian: ''trattativa Stato-mafia'') describes an alleged series of negotiations between important Italian government officials and Cosa Nostra members that began after the period of the 1992 and 1993 terror attacks by the Sicilian Mafia with the aim to reach a deal to stop the attacks; according to other sources and hypotheses, it began even earlier. In summary, the supposed cornerstone of the deal was an end to "the Massacre Season" in return for a reduction in the detention measures provided for Italy's Article 41-bis prison regime. 41-bis was the law by which the Antimafia pool led by Giovanni Falcone had condemned hundreds of mafia members to the "hard prison regime". The negotiation hypothesis has been the subject of long investigations, both by the courts and in the media. In 2021, the Court of Appeal of Palermo acquitted a close associate of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, while upholding the sentences of the mafia bosses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Language
Italian (, , or , ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family. It evolved from the colloquial Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent language from Latin, together with Sardinian language, Sardinian. It is spoken by about 68 million people, including 64 million native speakers as of 2024. Italian is an official language in Languages of Italy, Italy, Languages of San Marino, San Marino, Languages of Switzerland, Switzerland (Ticino and the Grisons), and Languages of Vatican City, Vatican City; it has official Minority language, minority status in Minority languages of Croatia, Croatia, Slovene Istria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the municipalities of Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo, Santa Tereza, Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul, Encantado, and Venda Nova do Imigrante in Languages of Brazil#Language co-officialization, Brazil. Italian is also spoken by large Italian diaspora, immigrant and expatriate communities in the Americas and Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Minister Of Justice
This is a list of the Italian ministers of justice since 1946. The minister of justice is a senior member of the Council of Ministers (Italy), Italian Cabinet and leads the Ministry of Justice (Italy), Ministry of Justice. The first Italian minister of justice is Giovanni Battista Cassinis, member of the Historical Right, who held the office in 1861 in the government of Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour; while the longest-serving minister was Alfredo Rocco, who served in the fascist government of Benito Mussolini from 1925 until 1932. The current minister is Carlo Nordio, appointed on 22 October 2022 in the government of Giorgia Meloni. List of ministers of justice Kingdom of Italy Parties * ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** * ** ** ** ** Coalitions * ** ** ** * ** * ** * ** Ministers Italian Republic Parties *1946–1994: ** ** ** ** ** *1994–present: ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Coalitions * ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** Ministers Timeline Kingdom of Italy Italian Repub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sicilian Mafia Commission
The Sicilian Mafia Commission (Italian: ''Commissione provinciale''), known as Commissione or Cupola, is a body of leading Sicilian Mafia members who decide on important questions concerning the actions of, and settling disputes within the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra. It is composed of representatives of a mandamento (a district of three geographically contiguous Mafia families) who are called ''capo mandamento'' or ''rappresentante''. The Commission is not a central government of the Mafia, but a representative mechanism for consultation of independent Mafia families who decide by consensus. Its primary role is to keep the use of violence among families within limits tolerable to the public and political authorities."Crisis among the 'Men of Honor (), interview w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Imprisonment
Life imprisonment is any sentence (law), sentence of imprisonment under which the convicted individual is to remain incarcerated for the rest of their natural life (or until pardoned or commuted to a fixed term). Crimes that result in life imprisonment are considered extremely serious and usually violent. Examples of these crimes are murder, torture, terrorism, child abuse Child manslaughter, resulting in death, rape, espionage, treason, illegal drug trade, human trafficking, severe fraud and financial crimes, Aggravation (law), aggravated property damage, arson, hate crime, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, theft, piracy, aircraft hijacking, and genocide. Common law murder is a crime for which life imprisonment is mandatory in several countries, including some states of the United States and Canada. Life imprisonment (as a maximum term) can also be imposed, in certain countries, for traffic offences causing death. Life imprisonment is not used in all countries; Portugal was the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxi Trial
The Maxi Trial () was a criminal trial against the Sicilian Mafia that took place in Palermo, Sicily. The trial lasted from 10 February 1986 (the first day of the Corte d'Assise) to 30 January 1992 (the final day of the Supreme Court of Cassation (Italy), Supreme Court of Cassation), and was held in a bunker-style courthouse specially constructed for this purpose inside the walls of the Ucciardone prison. Sicilian prosecutors indicted 475 mafiosi for a multitude of crimes relating to Mafia activities, based primarily on the testimonies given by former Mafia bosses turned informants, known as ''pentito, pentiti'', in particular Tommaso Buscetta and Salvatore Contorno. Most were convicted, 338 people, sentenced to a total of 2,665 years, not including life sentences handed to 19 crime boss, bosses; the convictions were upheld on 30 January 1992 by the Supreme Court of Italy, after the final stage of appeal. The importance of the trial was that the existence of Cosa Nostra was fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corte Di Cassazione
The Supreme Court of Cassation () is the highest court of appeal or court of last resort in Italy. It has its seat in the Palace of Justice, Rome. The Court of Cassation also ensures the correct application of law in the inferior and appeal courts and resolves disputes as to which lower court (penal, civil, administrative, military) has jurisdiction to hear a given case. Procedure The Italian Supreme Court of Cassation is the highest court of Italy. Appeals to the Court of Cassation generally come from the Appellate Court, the second instance courts, but defendants or prosecutors may also appeal directly from trial courts, first instance courts. The Supreme Court can reject, or confirm, a sentence from a lower court. If it rejects the sentence, it can order the lower court to amend the trial and sentencing, or it can annul the previous sentence altogether. A sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court of Cassation is final and definitive, and cannot be further appealed for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaspare Spatuzza
Gaspare Spatuzza (born 8 April 1964) is a Sicilian mafioso from the Brancaccio quarter in Palermo. He was an assassin for the brothers Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano who headed the Mafia family of Brancaccio. After the arrest of the Gravianos in January 1994, he apparently succeeded them as the regent of the Mafia family. He was arrested in 1997 and started to cooperate with the judicial authorities in 2008. In his testimony, he stated that media tycoon and then prime minister Silvio Berlusconi made a deal with the Sicilian Mafia in 1993 that put the country in the hands of Cosa Nostra. Mafia killer Spatuzza is convicted of six bomb attacks and 40 homicides.Mob witness links Berlusconi to Mafia bombings Reuters, 4 December 2009 He confessed the murder of the parish prie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Giuffrè
Nino or Niño may refer to: People *Nino (name) *Niño (name) *Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court justice whose nickname was "Nino" Songs * "Niño" (Belanova song), 2005 * "Niño" (Ed Maverick song), 2021 *"Nino", a song from the album '' Growing Up'' by the Linda Lindas, 2022 Other uses *El Niño, a climate pattern in the tropical Pacific Ocean *NINO, an abbreviation for National Insurance number in the United Kingdom *Niño, the smallest conga drum * ''Nino'' (novel), a 1938 children's novel by Valenti Angelo * ''Niño'' (TV series), a 2014 Philippine TV series *Philips Nino, a PDA-style device *The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO, ) See also *El Niño (other) *Santo Niño (other) *Ninos (other) *Niños (other) *Cyclonic Niño *Niño Jesús *Cave of Niño The Cave of Niño () is a cave and archaeological site located in Aýna, Spain. It has a number of well preserved rock art drawings from the Paleolithic period. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo Siino
Angelo is an Italian masculine given name and surname meaning "angel", or "messenger". People People with the given name * Angelo Abenante (1927–2024), Italian trade unionist and politician * Angelo Accardi, Italian visual artist * Angelo Accattino (born 1966), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church * Angelo Acciaioli, multiple people *Angelo Acerbi (born 1925), Catholic archbishop * Angelo Achini or Angiolo Achini (1850–1930), Italian painter *Angelo Acosta (born 2001), Filipino rapper * Angelo Agostini (1843–1910), illustrator, journalist and founder of several publications, and although born in Italy, is considered the first Brazilian cartoonist * Angelo Agrizzi, South African businessman and whistleblower * Angelo Aimo (born 1964), Italian footballer *Angelo Albanesi (late 1765–1784), Italian engraver *Angelo Alessandri (born 1969), Italian politician *Angelo Alessio (born 1965), Italian football manager and player *Angelo Alistar (born 1975), Romanian footballer *Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentiti
''Pentito'' (; lit. "repentant"; plural: ''pentiti'') is used colloquially to designate collaborators of justice in Italian criminal procedure terminology who were formerly part of criminal organizations and decided to collaborate with a public prosecutor. The judicial category of ''pentiti'' was originally created in 1970s to combat violence and terrorism during the period of left-wing and right-wing terrorism known as the Years of Lead. During the 1986–87 Maxi Trial and after the testimony of Tommaso Buscetta, the term was increasingly applied to former members of organized crime in Italy who had abandoned their organization and started helping investigators. Role and benefits In exchange for the information they deliver, ''pentiti'' receive shorter sentences for their crimes, in some cases even freedom. In the Italian judicial system, ''pentiti'' can obtain personal protection, a new name, and some money to start a new life in another place, possibly abroad. This practi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvo Andò
Salvatore "Salvo" Andò (born 13 February 1945) is an Italian academic and politician. He was the minister of defence between 1992 and 1993. Early life and education Andò was born on 13 February 1945. A leading figure of the Italian Socialist Party, he is the son of the first socialist mayor of Giarre, Biagio Andò. A leading figure in the Italian Socialist Party, he is the son of the first socialist mayor of Giarre, Biagio Andò. He was a city councilor from 1970 to 1991, first in Giarre and then in Catania. Elected to the Chamber for the first time in 1979, he was a member of parliament for four legislatures. He was vice president of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the P2 Masonic lodge. He was president of the PSI parliamentary group from April to June 1992, and was a member of the party's national management and secretariat. He was Minister of Defense in the first Amato government from June 1992 to April 1993. During his mandate, following the intensificatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Minister Of Defence
The minister of defence () is a senior member of the Italian Cabinet who leads the Ministry of Defence. The minister is responsible for military and civil defence matters and managing the Italian Armed Forces. The first minister of war was Manfredo Fanti, a general of the Royal Italian Army, while the first minister of defence was Luigi Gasparotto, member of the Labour Democratic Party; the current office holder is Guido Crosetto, of the Brothers of Italy Brothers of Italy (, FdI) is a National conservatism, national-conservative and Right-wing populism, right-wing populist political party in Italy, that is currently the country's ruling party. After becoming the largest party in the 2022 Ita ... party, who has been acting as defence minister since 22 October 2022. List of ministers of defence ; Parties: * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ; Governments: * ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** Timeline See also * Ministry of Defence (Italy) * Minister of War (I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
