Placido Rizzotto

Placido Rizzotto
Born(1914-01-02)2 January 1914
Corleone, Sicily
Disappeared10 March 1948 (aged 34)
Died10 March 1948(1948-03-10) (aged 34)
Rocca Busambra, Sicily
Cause of deathMurdered
Body discovered7 July 2009
Rocca Busambra

Placido Rizzotto (Italian pronunciation: [ˈplaːtʃido ritˈtsɔtto]; 2 January 1914 – 10 March 1948) was an Italian partisan,[1] socialist peasant and trade union leader from Corleone, who was kidnapped and murdered by Sicilian Mafia boss Luciano Leggio on 10 March 1948. Before he was killed, Rizzotto was engaged in activism with farm laborers, trying to help them take over unfarmed land on large estates in the area.[2] A 12-year-old shepherd, Giuseppe Letizia, witnessed Rizzotto's murder and was killed the following day with a lethal injection, made by a Mafia doctor named Michele Navarra.[3] In the 1960s, Leggio was acquitted twice of Rizzotto's murder due to lack of evidence.[4]

  1. ^ "ANPI Voghera | Placido Rizzotto - Il Partigiano che morì di mafia". lombardia.anpi.it. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  2. ^ Cockburn, Alexander; Jeffrey St. Clair (1998). Whiteout, the CIA, drugs and the press. New York: Verso. pp. 137. ISBN 1-85984-258-5.
    - Peter Robb (2007). Midnight in Sicily. Macmillan. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-312-42684-2.
    - Jerry Mangione (1985). A passion for Sicilians: the world around Danilo Dolci. Transaction. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-88738-606-0.
    - Michele Pantaleone (1966). The Mafia and politics, Volume 1966, Part 1. Chatto & Windus. p. 115.
  3. ^ Ritrovati i resti di Placido Rizzotto sindacalista ucciso dalla mafia nel '48
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