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September 25, 2016 The 37th anniversary of the death of Judge Cesare Terranova, killed in Palermo by the Mafia together with Marshal Lenin Mancuso, his collaborator, will be held on September 25th. It was September 25th 1979 . Terranova and Mancuso were expected in via De Amicis by the killers who fired a burst of lead at them while they were in the car. The magistrate had recently returned to the Sicilian capital. For two terms he had been elected on the PCI list and had been a member of the anti-mafia commission. He was going to settle in as head of the Palermo education office. A few years earlier, in 1974, he had nailed Luciano Liggio, the "Primula Rossa" of Corleone.For the murder of Judge Cesare Terranova and Marshal Lenin Mancuso, the Assize Court of Reggio Calabria sentenced the members of the dome of Cosa Nostra to life imprisonment: Salvatore Riina, Bernardo Brusca, Bernardo Provenzano, Francesco Madonia, Pippo Calo ', Antonino Geraci and Michele Greco.
In 1988 the judge Antonino Saetta fell
And on September 25, 1988 , the Mafia killed judge Antonino Saetta, president of the First Section of the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Palermo, and his son Stefano along the Grottarossa viaduct of the highway 640 Agrigento-Caltanissetta. The ambush snapped just before midnight. The murder, as has been ascertained by the investigators, would have been decided by the mafia dome presided over by Totò Riina to punish the magistrate who had heavily condemned killers and instigators of heinous murders and who was a candidate to preside over the Court of Appeal of the first maxi trial at mafia gangs of the Palermo area. The murder of Antonino and Stefano Saetta was carried out with brutal violence and without sparing bullets. Over one hundred bullets were counted on the ambush, including a war machine gun.
For the Saetta murder the boss Francesco Madonia, from Palermo, and Pietro Ribisi, from Palma di Montechiaro, were sentenced to life imprisonment.