Giuseppe Marchese: Difference between revisions

In 1980, just 17 years old, Giuseppe Marchese was initiated into the Mafia by [[Salvatore Riina]] and [[Leoluca Bagarella]] as ‘reserved’ man of honour affiliated with the [[Corleonesi]].<ref name=narco>{{itin iconlang|it}} [http://www.narcomafie.it/sentenza_dellutri.pdf Sentenza nei confronti di Dell’Utri Marcello e Cinà Gaetano] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928051033/http://www.narcomafie.it/sentenza_dellutri.pdf |date=September 28, 2007 }}, December 11, 2004, pp. 293-95</ref> His membership of Cosa Nostra was to be kept confidential in order to work exclusively for Riina and his uncle.<ref name=paoli70>Paoli, ''Mafia Brotherhoods'', p. 70</ref> He became one of the many killers at the disposal of the Corleonesi in the [[Second Mafia War]].

He was only 1918 when he participated in the so-called "Christmas Massacre" when, on the afternoon of 25 December 25, 1981, in [[Bagheria]], three Mafiosi – including [[Giovanni Di Peri]], the boss of [[Villabate]] – and an innocent bystander were murdered. [[Giuseppe Greco]] and Marchese's uncle [[Filippo Marchese]] also took part in the bloodshed.<ref name=stille63>Stille, ''[[Excellent Cadavers]]'', pp. 63-64</ref>

Giuseppe Marchese was captured on 15 January 15, 1982, and imprisoned for his role in the Christmas Massacre. His conviction was secured by the fact that his [[fingerprint]] was found on the steering wheel of one of the getaway-cars<ref name=stille63/> (the [[forensic scientist]], Dr. [[Paolo Giaccone]], who found and identified the fingerprint was subsequently shot to death by Rosario Rotolo, one of Filippo Marchese's killers; at the [[Maxi Trial]], Rotolo was convicted of this murder.). Marchese was given a [[life sentence]] as part of the [[Maxi Trial]] in 1987.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE1D81438F936A15756C0A96E948260|title=Mafia Killer Reported Slain|publisher=Reuters|date=25 May 1988}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1987/12/17/giudici-hanno-creduto-buscetta.html|title=I GIUDICI HANNO CREDUTO A BUSCETTA|publisher=repubblica.it|date=17 December 1987|language=Italian}}</ref>

On 11 May 11, 1989 Giuseppe Marchese and his brother Antonino battered to death [[Vincenzo Puccio]], boss of the [[Mandamento (Sicilian Mafia)|mandamento]] of [[Ciaculli]] and a fellow [[convict]] and [[hitman]] for the Corleonesi. Puccio had been plotting to overthrow the Corleonesi bosses, [[Salvatore Riina]] and [[Bernardo Provenzano]].<ref name=stille307>Stille, ''[[Excellent Cadavers]]'', pp. 307-08</ref>

In September 1992 he became a [[pentito]] and started to collaborate with the authorities. He claimed he was disillusioned by Riina's tactics of murder and treachery, complaining he had been used then discarded by Riina. Marchese admitted to have participated in more than 20 murders, including the one on [[Stefano Bontade]] and [[Salvatore Inzerillo]]. He was the firstsecond (after the Marino Mannoia) mafioso from the winning faction of the [[Corleonesi]] in the [[Second Mafia War]] to become state witness.<ref name=narco/> Although isn't involved, he also talked about [[Pino Greco]]'s killing

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* Longrigg, Clare (1998). ''Mafia Women'', London: Vintage {{ISBN |0-09-959171-5}}

* Paoli, Letizia (2003). ''Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style'', Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press {{ISBN |0-19-515724-9}}

* Siebert, Renate (1996). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=LXNWOyPfDSoC Secrets Of Life And Death. Women and the Mafia]'', London: Verso {{ISBN |1-85984-023-X}}

* [[Alexander Stille|Stille, Alexander]] (1995). ''Excellent Cadavers. The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic'', London: Vintage {{ISBN |0-09-959491-9}}

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