Information AboutLeoluca Bagarella |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT LEOLUCA BAGARELLA | |
| 1941 births | |
| bagarella, leoluca | |
| living people | |
| people from corleone | |
| sicilian mafiosi | |
| sicilian mafiosi serving life sentences | |
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Bagarella sided with Luciano Leggio in the late 1950s when Leggio wiped out the former Corleonesi boss Michele Navarra and his men. Bagarella became the brother-in-law of Salvatore Riina when, in 1974 , Riina married Bagarella's sister, Ninette. That was the same year Leggio was imprisoned and Riina became the Corleonesi boss. ''The Brother-In-Law'' became Leoluca's nickname because of his relationship to Riina. Bagarella's own wife, Vincenza, was the niece of Fillipo Marchese , a notorious killer and high ranking member of the Corleonesi. Bagarella is said to have been involved in around 300 murders {Link without Title} , including that of his wife, who was killed in the late 1980s not long after her brother Giuseppe - another Corleonesi hitman - became an informant. Bagarella also killed a nephew of the Informant Tommaso Buscetta , one of many of Buscetta's relatives to die since he betrayed the Mafia. Two of Bagarella's brothers were also Mafiosi; one was shot dead in 1969 during a shootout with rival mobsters whilst another was murdered in prison three-years later. Following Riina's arrest in early 1993 , Bagarella is believed to have taken over a section of the Corleonesi, rivalling Riina's primary successor, Bernardo Provenzano . However, just two-years later, on June 24 , 1995 , Bagarella was arrested, having been a Fugitive for four-years. He was subsequently convicted of multiple murder and Imprisoned For Life . Tommaso Buscetta knew him in prison back in the 1970s and had the following to say about Bagarella: ''"I prefer not to speak about him, I think he doesn’t belong to the human species...in prison everybody feared him. I remember we stayed three months together in the prison infirmary and the only words he told me were good morning and good evening"'' Bagarella protested in 2002 at his treatment under a new law that placed heavy restrictions on jailed Mafia bosses to prevent them from running their criminal empires from behind bars. At a court appearance that June Bagarella made some thinly veiled threats to the Italian government, saying the Mafia is "tired of being manipulated by political forces." {Link without Title} Some intepreted this as a sign the Mafia was annoyed that its previously cosy relationship with politicians had broken down, as if the harsh restrictions on the Mafia bosses was betraying some sort of clandestine promise made to them by (unnamed) politicans. REFERENCES AND EXTERNAL LINKS
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