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Michele Cavataio (18 March 1929 – 10 December 1969), also known as Il cobra (The cobra) was an Italian mobster and powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was the boss of the Acquasanta mandamento in Palermo and was a member of the first Sicilian Mafia Commission .
Michele Cavataio, conosciuto anche come Cavatajo, soprannominato Il cobra come la sua arma preferita Colt Cobra, è stato un mafioso italiano, legato a Cosa Nostra.
Jul 15, 2016 · Provenzano earned his nickname “the Tractor” when he murdered a rival boss, Michele Cavataio, in the offices of a construction company in Viale Lazio, Palermo, in 1969.
Jan 7, 2016 · The principal victim was Michele Cavataio, a man of honour who was blamed for the discord at the root of the ‘first mafia war’ of 1962–63 (JD). Google Scholar 7
- Guido Lo Forte
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They were two mafiosi who had backed Michele Cavataio during the 1950s wholesale market war, and he held them to be responsible for the murder of his uncle, Gaetano Tanu Alati Galatolo.
Mar 14, 2024 · One of his killers was a man he knew well, Michele Cavataio (right), one of his own gang. An ex-cab driver with a psychopathic habit of killing all his problems, he would turn the Mafia on its ear in 1962, starting what historians call “The First Mafia War,” and then seven years later, when he became himself a victim of mob violence.
Michele Cavataio, the Mafia boss of the Acquasanta quarter of Palermo. The Ciaculli massacre on 30 June 1963 was caused by a car bomb that exploded in Ciaculli, an outlying suburb of Palermo, killing seven police and military officers sent to defuse it after an anonymous phone call.
