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31 YEARS AGO, ON MAY 9th...

2009.05.09

dark clouds over the city of Taranto

Peppino Impastato was born in Cinisi in the province of Palermo, into a Mafia family. His father Luigi Impastato had been sent into internal exile during the fascist era, and was a close friend of Mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti. His father's brother-in-law, Cesare Manzella, was an important mafia boss who was killed in car bomb attack in 1963.
As an adolescent, Peppino broke off relations with his father – who kicked him out of the house – and initiated a series of political and cultural Antimafia activities.
He was killed during the election campaign on the night of May 8-9, by a charge of TNT placed under his body, which had been stretched over the local railway line – a sinister twist of fate to the car-bomb that had killed his uncle and initiated Peppino's revolt against the Mafia.
The same day, Christian-Democrat Prime Minister Aldo Moro's corpse (killed by Red Brigades) was discovered in via Caetani, Rome.

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