What the records say
- When
- 10 Dec 1969
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 5
- Coordinates
- 38.12° N, 13.36° E
- Description
- historical incident of Palermo, Sicily
Placed at the point Wikidata gives for Palermo.
Viale Lazio massacre
1969 Mafia killing in Palermo, Sicily
The Viale Lazio massacre on 10 December 1969 was a settling of accounts in the Sicilian Mafia. Mafia boss Michele Cavataio and three men were killed on Viale Lazio in Palermo, Sicily, by a Mafia hit squad. The bloodbath marked the end of a pax mafiosa that had reigned since the Ciaculli massacre until the end of the Trial of the 114 against Cosa Nostra.
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