Placido Rizzotto
Placido Rizzotto (Italian pronunciation: [ˈplaːtʃido ritˈtsɔtto]; 2 January 1914 – 10 March 1948) was an Italian partisan, 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 performing activist work with farm laborers, trying to help them take over unfarmed land on large estates in the area. 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. In the 1960s, Leggio was acquitted twice of Rizzotto's murder due to lack of evidence.
Placido Rizzotto | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 January 1914 |
| Disappeared | 10 March 1948 (aged 34) |
| Died | 10 March 1948 (aged 34) Rocca Busambra, Sicily |
| Cause of death | Murdered |
| Body discovered | 7 July 2009 Rocca Busambra |
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