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Placido Rizzotto

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Italian trade unionist (1914-1948)

ItalyPoliticiansLived 1914 to 1948 · aged 34
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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.

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Gold medal for civil merit

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Norma CossettoAlso won Gold medal for civil meritLucille Teasdale-CortiAlso won Gold medal for civil meritOdoardo FocheriniAlso won Gold medal for civil meritPio La TorreAlso won Gold medal for civil merit

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About this person

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.

Country
Italy
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1914 to 1948 · aged 34
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5 languages

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