Antonino Scopelliti (;

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, 20 January 1935 – Piale, 9 August 1991) was an

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prosecuting

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, murdered by the

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on behalf of the

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.Italian parliament looks to the future
The Independent, April 22, 1993 He was a prosecutor at the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione). While on holiday visiting his family in Calabria, he was ambushed on a road on 9 August 1991. At the time he was preparing to argue the government’s case in the final appeal of the

Maxi Trial The Maxi Trial ( it, Maxiprocesso) 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 ...

against Cosa Nostra for the Supreme Court. The reason for the killing was to hold up the trial so that the Mafia bosses' legal terms of detention would expire and they would be freed.Stille, ''Excellent Cadavers'', p. 344 The crime still remains unsolved. Two trials were held at the Court of Reggio Calabria against Mafia boss Salvatore Riina and thirteen of the so-called

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, and a second trial against

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and nine other bosses of the Commission, including Filippo and

Giuseppe Graviano Giuseppe Graviano (; September 30, 1963) is an Italian Sicilian Mafia, mafioso from the Brancaccio quarter in Palermo. He also was one the men of the death squad that murdered Salvatore Contorno's relatives. He is currently serving several life se ...

Raffaele Ganci Raffaele Ganci (4 January 1932 – 3 June 2022) was a member of the Mafia in Sicily from the Noce neighbourhood in Palermo. He was considered to be the right-hand man of Cosa Nostra boss Totò Riina and sat on the Sicilian Mafia Commission.

Giuseppe Farinella Giuseppe Farinella (24 December 1925 – 5 September 2017) was a Sicilian mafioso, boss of the San Mauro Castelverde family and a one-time member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission. San Mauro Castelverde, a village on 1,000 meters above sea leve ...

Antonino Giuffrè Antonino "Nino" Giuffrè (; born 21 July 1945) is an Italian mafioso from Caccamo in the Province of Palermo, Sicily. He became one of the most important Mafia turncoats after his arrest in April 2002. Giuffrè was known in Mafia circles as (" ...

and

Nitto Santapaola Benedetto Santapaola (; born 4 June 1938), better known as Nitto, is a prominent mafioso from Catania, the main city and industrial centre on Sicily's east coast. His nickname is ''il cacciatore'' (the hunter), because of his passion for shooting ...

. All were convicted at first instance in 1996 and 1998 and subsequently acquitted in the Court of Appeals in 1998 and 2000 because the testimonies of the seventeen government witnesses were conflicting. His daughter Rosanna Scopelliti is the national coordinator of Ammazzateci tutti (

for "Kill Us All"), an Italian

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against the

.History of the Movement
Kill Us All website (Accessed April 1, 2010)

References

* Stille, Alexander (1995). ''Excellent Cadavers. The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic'', New York: Vintage

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Fondazione "Antonino Scopelliti"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scopelliti, Antonio 1935 births 1991 deaths Assassinated Italian judges People murdered in Calabria People murdered by the 'Ndrangheta People from the Province of Reggio Calabria

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