# Placido Rizzotto

> Placido Rizzotto 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 engaged in activism 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 Michele Navarra, a qualified physician and Mafia doctor. In the 1960s, Leggio was acquitted twice of Rizzotto's murder due to lack of evidence.

*Italian trade unionist (1914-1948)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** 1914-01-02
- **Died:** 1948-03-10
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 48.1 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 5.8 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 35.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Sources
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- [Риццотто, Плачидо](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%86%D1%86%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1754984)

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