Giuseppe Impastato, better known as Peppino (Cinisi, January 5, 1948 - Cinisi, May 9 1978) was an Italian politician and radio presenter, famous for its militant anti-fascist but especially for complaints of the activities of the Mafia in Sicily, which cost him his life.
Life
Peppino Impastato was born in Cinisi, near Palermo, January 5, 1948, from a Mafia family (his father Louis was sent into internal exile during the fascist period, his uncle and other relatives were mobsters and the brother in law of the father was the boss Cesare Manzella, who was killed in an ambush in 1963 in his Giulietta stuffed with TNT).
still a boy breaks up with his father, who throws him out of the house, and starts a task cultural-political mafia. In 1965 he founded the socialist magazine The idea and adheres to PSIUP. From 1968 onwards, take part, with the leading role in the activities of the New Left groups. Leads to the struggles of peasants expropriated for the construction of a third runway at Palermo, in the territory of Cinisi, and construction of the unemployed.
in 1976 is the group music and culture, cultural activities (film club, music, drama, debates, etc..) Founded in 1977, Radio Aut, radio free self-financed, with which he denounced the crimes of the mafia and the business of Cinisi Terrasini and, first of the mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti, who had a leading role in international drug trafficking, through the control of the airport. The most-watched program was mad wave, transmission satire which mocked politicians and mobsters.
In 1978, candidate on the list of Proletarian Democracy in municipal elections. Was assassinated on the night between 8 and 9 May 1978, during the election campaign, with a charge of dynamite placed under the body lying on the railroad tracks. A few days later, voters vote Cinisi his name, being able to elect him, symbolically, to the City Council.
Press, police and the courts speak of a terrorist act in which the bomber would have been the victim and suicide after the discovery of a letter written several months before actually. The killing, occurred at night, he managed to go almost unnoticed because the next morning just at that hour was "returned" the body of Aldo Moro, president of DC in via Caetani in Rome.
The charges and findings
Thanks to the activities of his brother John and mother Felicia Bartolotta Impastato, breaking publicly with the Mafia family, the comrades of the militancy and Documentation Centre Sicilian [ 2] of Palermo, who was born in 1977 and in 1980 he would be entitled to own Giuseppe Impastato, the matrix is \u200b\u200bidentified on the basis of the crime and the mafia of the collection and documentation of complaints, the investigation is reopened court.
On 9 May 1979, the Sicilian Documentation Centre organizes, Proletarian Democracy, the first national demonstration against the mafia in Italy's history, attended by 2,000 people from all over the country.
In May 1984 the Education Office of the Court of Palermo, on the basis of the views of Councillor instructor Rocco Chinnici, who had started the work of the first anti-mafia pool and was assassinated in July 1983, the court, signed by the Director Instructor Anthony Caponnetto, which recognizes the array of mafia crime, however, attributed to unknown.
Center Impastato public in 1986, the life story of the mother of Joseph Impastato, in the book The Mafia in my house, and the well-known unknown file, outlining the principal of the crime boss Gaetano Badalamenti, meanwhile sentenced to 45 years imprisonment for drug trafficking by the Court of New York, in the process to the Pizza Connection.
In January 1988, the Court shall notify the court of Palermo in Badalamenti. In May 1992 the same court decides the dismissal of the case Impastato, stressing the array of mafia crime, but excluding the possibility of identifying the culprits and assuming responsibility for the possible allies of the Corleone mafia Cinisi.
In May of 1994 the Centro Impastato has an instance for the reopening of the investigation, together by a petition, asking to be interrogated about the murder of the new employee Impastato Justice Salvatore Palazzolo, affiliated with the mafia Cinisi. In March 1996 his mother, his brother and the Centro Impastato filed a complaint in which they seek to investigate incidents not clarified, in particular concerning the conduct of the police officers immediately after the crime.
In June 1996, following the statements of Palazzolo, indicating Badalamenti in the murder along with his vice principal Vito Palazzolo, the investigation was formally reopened. In November 1997 he was issued an arrest warrant for Badalamenti, indicted as a principal of the crime. On 10 March 1999 held a preliminary hearing process against Vito Palazzolo, and the position of Badalamenti shall be deleted.
Family, Centro Impastato, Rifondazione, the City of Cinisi and the Order of Journalists call for a civil action, and their request is accepted. On November 23, 1999 Gaetano Badalamenti waiving a preliminary hearing and asks the court immediately.
hearing on January 26, 2000 in defense of Vito Palazzolo asked that we proceed with the expedited, while the trial of Gaetano Badalamenti ceremony will take place with the normal video-conferencing. On May 4, in the case against Palazzolo, and September 21 in the trial of Badalamenti, are rejected requests for a civil Center Impastato, Communist Refoundation and the Order of Journalists.
In 1998 at the anti-Mafia parliamentary commission was set up a committee on the case Impastato and December 6, 2000 was approved a report on the responsibility of representatives of institutions in the screening investigations. The committee shall make its positions favor the hypothesis of the terrorist attack carried out by soldiers of the following: Major Tito Honorati Baldo, Major Antonio Subranni; Marshal Alfonso Travale
On 5 March 2001 the Court 's Vito Palazzolo sat recognized guilty and sentenced him to thirty years imprisonment. The April 11, 2002 Gaetano Badalamenti was sentenced imprisonment.
I Cento Passi!
"My father, my family, my country! I want to fuck! I want to write that the mafia is a mountain of shit! I want to shout that my father is an ass-licker! We must rebel. Before it's too late! Before you get used to their faces! Before you did not notice more than anything! "
(Peppino Impastato / Luigi Lo Cascio)
Plot
Cento are the steps you need to do in the small Cinisi to bridge the distance between the house of the mixtures and that of Mafia boss Tano Badalamenti.
The young lives trying to Peppino Impastato escape quest'inesorabile mafia link with the environment that his father, Luigi Impastato, a bit 'to inertia, partly' because he has a wife and two children to be protected from growing, does not have the strength to break. Even in the face of his vulnerability and his family, Peppino, animated by an irrepressible civic spirit, does not hesitate with the inadvertent complicity of his brother John, to attack "Don Tano" and publicly denounce the misdeeds.
path "against the" Peppino begins when a baby sees slide in front of him the beginnings of political struggle against the Mafia and the power of colluding with it, then fight to take active part in once a teenager and then as an adult. The violent death uncle's boss, meeting with the Communist painter Stefano Venuti, rejection of his biological father and the family understood in the mafia and the format painter idealist, his real father of ethics, are the turning points of the life of Peppino child, it will mark the rest of his life. The phrase "we communists lose because we like to lose" seems like a prelude to his tragic death, coming when it became too uncomfortable to the Mafia and his father, who died in an obscure incident, no longer able to protect against Don Tano. He's killed for the work especially irreverent Radio Aut, from the microphones of which was hurled without restraint to denounce the Mafia and its misdeeds.
I Cento Passi (Modena City Ramblers)
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