Paolo Violi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paolo Violi

Canadian mobster

Date of Birth: 06-Feb-1933

Place of Birth: Sinopoli, Calabria, Italy

Date of Death: 22-Jan-1978

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Paolo Violi (Italian: ['pa?olo 'vj??li; vi'??li]; February 6, 1931 – January 22, 1978) was an Italian-Canadian mobster and acting capodecina of the Bonanno crime family's faction in Montreal, the Cotroni crime family. Violi was born in Sinopoli, Calabria, Italy, in 1931; his father Domenico was the boss of the Violi clan in his hometown.
Violi immigrated to Southern Ontario in 1951.
He married Grazia Luppino, daughter of the boss of the Luppino crime family in Hamilton.
He later moved to Montreal where he became associated with in the Calabrese compatriot Cotroni crime family which had most of the control in Montreal.
In the late 1970s, a mob war broke out between the Sicilian and Calabrian factions, which resulted in the deaths of Violi in 1978, the acting captain of the Cotroni family, and his brothers, as the Sicilian Rizzuto crime family emerged as the preeminent crime family in Montreal by the early 1980s.
After Violi's death, his widow and two sons, Domenico and Giuseppe moved to Hamilton; the Violi brothers became affiliated with the Luppino crime family, later also becoming known as the Luppino-Violi crime family.