List of victims of the 'Ndrangheta

This list of victims of the 'Ndrangheta includes people who have been killed by the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta while opposing its rule. It does not include people killed in internal conflicts of the 'Ndrangheta itself.

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1970s

1977

1975
  • July 3 – Francesco Ferlaino, an Italian magistrate.[2]

1980s

1980

1982
  • May 3 – Gennaro Musella, a marine engineer killed by a car bomb in Reggio Calabria after interfering in a public contract for the construction of the port of Bagnara Calabra, that had been already claimed by 'Ndrangheta boss Paolo De Stefano, and Catania Mafia boss Nitto Santapaola.[5]

1983
  • June 26 – Judge Bruno Caccia, investigating extortion by the 'Ndrangheta in Turin.[6]

1985
  • February 6 – Carmine Tripodi, head of the Carabinieri station in San Luca.[7]

1989
  • March 20 – Vincenzo Grasso, an Italian businessman who refused to pay extortion money in Locri.[8]
  • August 27 – Lodovico Ligato, an Italian Christian Democrat politician from Reggio Calabria and the former head of the Italian State Railways. Ligato demanded a 10 percent bribe on public work contracts, jeopardizing agreements already reached among a so-called "business committee" of local politicians and 'Ndrangheta groups.[9]

1990s

1991

1992
  • April 7 - Stefano Ceratti, a cardiologist and politician, murdered because as town councilor he exposed irregularities in public procurement in Bianco (Calabria).[11]

1994
  • March 16 – Angela Costantino, disappeared, murdered by the Lo Giudice 'Ndrangheta clan from Reggio Calabria because she betrayed her husband while he was detained.[12]

2000s

2005
  • October 16 – Francesco Fortugno, an Italian politician and the Vice President of the Regional Assembly of Calabria. Fortugno was investigating the awarding of hospital contracts in the Calabrian healthcare system to prevent the penetration of the 'Ndrangheta in the health care system.[13][14]
  • May 24 – Gianluca Congiusta, an Italian businessman murdered in Siderno for refusing to pay extortion money.[15]

2009
  • November 24 – Lea Garofalo, the former wife of a member of the 'Ndrangheta who became a police informant (pentito) that was killed and whose corpse was burnt for 3 days to make it disappear[16] (though initially believed to have been dissolved in acid).[17][18]

References
  1. Monuments to honesty and deceit, The Sydney Morning Herald, February 16, 2009
  2. (in Italian) Assassinato il magistrato Francesco Ferlaino, Vittime Mafia
  3. (in Italian) Il compagno Giuseppe Valarioti, Stop'ndrangheta.it
  4. Un delitto impunito, Narcomafie, August 15, 2010
  5. (in Italian) Gennaro Musella è vittima di mafia, Reggio TV, January 14, 2009
  6. (in Italian) Bruno Caccia, giudice tutto d'un pezzo, Stop'ndrangheta.it
  7. (in Italian) Carmine Tripodi, 24 anni, carabiniere a San Luca, Stopndrangheta.it
  8. (in Italian) Ucciso Vincenzo Grasso, gestore di una concessionaria di auto, che si rifiutava di pagare il pizzo, Vittime Mafia
  9. Italian politicians implicated in Mafia murder, The Independent, December 7, 1992
  10. Italian parliament looks to the future, The Independent, April 22, 1993
  11. (in Italian) Furono i Pelle Gambazza di S. Luca a volere la morte di Stefano Ceratti Archived 2015-06-10 at the Wayback Machine, TeleJonio, October 16, 2010
  12. (in Italian) La storia di Angela strangolata per amore, Il Quotidiano della Calabria, April 14, 2012
  13. Death Comes To Locri, Time, October 23, 2005
  14. Four get life for 'mafia' killing, BBC News, February 2, 2009
  15. (in Italian) Sito Ufficiale Associazione Gianluca Congiusta Archived 2009-08-22 at the Wayback Machine
  16. "Omicidio Garofalo, il pentito: "Le spaccavamo le ossa mentre bruciava"". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  17. Mafia informant's body was dissolved in acid, Italian police say, The Guardian, October 18, 2010
  18. Six Arrested for Acid-Bath Murder of Woman who Grassed Up ’Ndrangheta, Corriere della Sera, October 18, 2010
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