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Killed Cosa Nostra mobster’s son-in-law also whacked in hit
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2016-03-04T18:30:00.000Z
2016-03-04T18:30:00.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/killed-cosa-nostra-mobster-s-son-in-law-also-whacked-in-hit"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237055683,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237055683?profile=original" width="500" /></a>By David Amoruso</p>
<p>Vincenzo Bontà, the son-in-law of Sicilian Mafioso Giovanni Bontade, was shot dead in Palermo yesterday. Bontà (45) was killed along with 53-year-old Giuseppe Vella. The pair was murdered in a very narrow part of the Via Falsomiele in Palermo, leaving them no chance to escape. Two suspects have been arrested by police.</p>
<p>Bontà was married to Daniela Bontade, daughter of the late lawyer and Cosa Nostra leader Giovanni Bontade, who himself came from illustrious crime family lineage with a mob boss father and brother who rose to incredible power in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/sicilian-cosa-nostra-overview">Sicilian Mafia</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237056273,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237056273?profile=original" width="176" /></a>His brother, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cosa-nostra-boss-stefano">Stefano</a>, was seen as Cosa Nostra’s crown prince before he was <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/photo/1981-murder-of-cosa-nostra?context=album&albumId=6329524%3AAlbum%3A576">murdered in 1981</a> by <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cosa-nostra-boss-salvatore">Toto Riina</a>’s <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/in-search-of-the-corleonesi-how-the-mafia-changed-forever">Corleonesi</a>. Giovanni Bontade sided with Riina’s Corleonesi so that he could take <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cosa-nostra-boss-stefano">his brother</a>’s place, but was killed himself in a mob hit seven years later together with his wife in September 28, 1988. The man who murdered him, Pietro Aglieri, eventually took over as boss of the Santa Maria di Gesù crime family.</p>
<p>Though <a href="http://palermo.blogsicilia.it/disperazione-sul-luogo-del-delitto-era-buono-non-doveva-morire-cosi/328195/immagine/vincenzo-bonta-3/" target="_blank">Bontà</a> and Vella had no criminal records, authorities were initially treating this as a Mafia hit because of Bontà’s Mafia connections and also because either Bontà or Vella was “executed” with a shot to the head region. The area where they were killed was described by police as a Mafia stronghold.</p>
<p>As always with Mafia violence, there is only dread and sorrow. Not only did Daniela lose her father and mother and her uncle, now, she has also lost her husband. Their children their father. On the other end of the spectrum are all of the Mafia’s victims: Citizens, <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/mafia-attacks-shopkeeper-in-palermo-for-refusal-to-pay">shopkeepers</a>, innocent bystanders.</p>
<p>The Chief Prosecutor of Palermo, Francesco Lo Voi, also wanted to alert the press and public to Cosa Nostra’s resilience. “Cosa Nostra is still alive,” he told reporters. “Unfortunately we have to record the permanent vitality of the Mafia and organizations operating in the area. I repeat once again: If anyone thinks that the Mafia has been defeated, and everything is over, obviously, they did not understand anything yet.”</p>
<p>Yet, when police followed all their leads, they concluded there was no Mafia link. Today, <a href="http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/03/04/cops-arrest-couple-in-double-palermo-hit_351dab33-1781-4454-ba22-e5a132d0cdd1.html" target="_blank">ANSA</a> reported that, "Late on Thursday the flying squad arrested 52-year-old city surveyor in charge of graveyards Carlo Gregoli and his spouse Adele Velardo, 45, a housewife. Investigators say they have security camera footage of the couple's Toyota SUV at the scene of the crime and a statement from an eyewitness, as well as evidence they fired with two different weapons. The couple has denied all involvement, but it is believed the motive may have been a quarrel between the suspects and Bonta', who was their neighbor."</p>
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Profile of Cosa Nostra boss Stefano Bontade
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2010-11-18T21:51:19.000Z
2010-11-18T21:51:19.000Z
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<p><br /> By Angelo Carmelo Gallitto<br /> Posted in 2003<br /> <br /> Stefano Bontade was born on April 23, 1939 in Palermo. His father was Francesco Paolo “Don Paolino” Bontade, the boss of Santa Maria di Gesù family, one of the most powerful families of the city of Palermo. Born in 1914, he was a farmer and he ran the fields and the wells around Villagrazia, Santa Maria di Gesù, and Guadagna neighbourhoods, which before the 1960s were rural areas. He was introduced into organized crime by his father, Stefano’s grandfather, and quickly became one of the most powerful bosses of Palermo area. His word was the “law” for the people. He was designated boss after the death of Andrea Messina, the old boss of Santa Maria family.<br /> <br /> Stefano was introduced into Cosa Nostra very early and in 1964, when he was 25, he became the official boss of the family because of his father’s disease. At the beginning of 1970s he took part in the triumvirate, with Gaetano Badalamenti and Luciano Leggio, which ran Cosa Nostra for a few years, before the Commission was reorganized after the repression of the State.<br /> <br /> Thanks to his politics and freemasons connections, Stefano was a real authority inside Cosa Nostra; he was in friendship with Salvo Lima, once Palermo’s mayor, Giovanni Gioia, senator of DC party, and several others, including Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. But when his power seemed to be untouchable, an obscure enemy was on the rise: the “Corleonesi” led by Totò Riina. They wanted to replace him, his political connections and his business, including drug trafficking and cigarettes smuggling. The Bontades had a lot of refineries around Palermo province, one of these was directly ran by Giovanni Bontade, brother of Stefano, murdered in 1988. The first signals Riina sent to Bontade were the kidnappings of Pino Vassallo, son of an important entrepreneur, Luciano Cassina, son of the Count Arturo, and Luigi Corleo, one of the richest of Sicily, father-in-law of Salvo’s from Salemi. The mafia war reached the top on April 23, 1981, when Stefano was shot to death while he was driving his armoured car. After him about 900 “men of honour” were killed in Palermo from 1981 to 1983; that was the end of the last member of the “Old Mafia”.</p>
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