Mario Prestifilippo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Sicilian Mafia member
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Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
About Mario Prestifilippo
- Mario Prestifilippo (Italian pronunciation: ['ma?rjo prestifi'lippo]; c.?1958 – September 29, 1987) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia.
- He was briefly the boss of the Ciaculli Mafia Family after Giuseppe Greco was murdered in 1985.
- He played a significant role in the Second Mafia War of the early 1980s orchestrated by Salvatore Riina.
- He was supposedly under the orders of Michele Greco but Greco was himself regarded as little more than a puppet of Riina. Prestifilippo was shot to death as he sped through the streets of Bagheria on September 29, 1987 on a motorbike, moving from one hiding place to another.
- He was killed because he protested the execution of Pino Greco, who was a close friend of his.
- At the time of his death he was a fugitive, suspected of dozens of murders, and was being tried in absentia at the Maxi Trial.
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