The Italian mafia once held regular meetings to decide which public figure needed to be assassinated. Some decisions were because of long held grudges by these Sicilian “men of honour”.
Other killings were about stopping someone from challenging the mafia’s power in southern Italy. For Sicilian magistrate Cesare Terranova, both of those reasons made him the target of the notorious Cosa Nostra.
This is the first in a two-part series about mafia assassinations in Italy. Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5
Chapters
00:00 The don
03:02 Hello my friend
03:39 Sicilian mafia origins
05:16 Terranova’s early years
07:35 Terranova moves to Rome
08:52 The Sicilian Mafia Commission
11:08 Assassination
Host: Aslan Pahari
Producer: Hannah Jose
Audio Engineer: Tegan Nicholls
Video Producers: Dylan Behan, Tejas Bhat
Special thanks: Michael Osmond for archives research
Supervising Producer: Kyla Slaven
Executive Producers: Joel Werner, Eric George, Jessica Radburn
To binge even more great episodes of ASSASSINS with Aslan Pahari go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you'll find more stories of the world’s most shocking assassinations – from the lone wolf hitman to the professional assassin, you’ll hear how famous figures like Abraham Lincoln, Benazir Bhutto, Ramses III, Tupac and Gandhi met their end.
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