Here I translated the chronology of the mafia events in the Ragusa province from the book "La mafia a Ragusa" by Carlo Ruta, just in case somebody is interested. Please correct if there are translation and grammar mistakes.


1980
In competition with Giuseppe Cirasa’s group, active since the 60s and dedicated first of all to cigarette smuggling, a group headed by the “man of honor” Turi Gallo is formed with the support of his relatives Vittorio and Giovanni Gallo, also part of the Cosa Nostra. Among the clan associates, Carmelo Dominante from Gela, the Bruno brothers, Claudio and Silvio Carbonaro. In the following years Biagio Gravina, a middle-school teacher in Ragusa will join.

1981
The minister of Defense Lagorio announces the construction of a Nato base in Comiso, seven km from Vittoria. It will have nuclear warhead missiles Pershing 2 and Cruise.

1982
January. Two boys are demonstratively killed in Vittoria: Giovanni Nasale and Gino Campailla. Turi Gallo and Claudio Carbonaro are part of the hit squad.

1983
While tensions between the Reagan administration and Gaddafi’s Libya are rising in the Mediterranean, the biggest European missile base becomes operative in Comiso.
9 September. The old boss Giuseppe Cirasa is killed. Silvio and Claudio Carbonaro are part of the hit squad.
5 November. An anti-racket demonstration in Vittoria with 15000 participants.

1984
11 November. A massacre in a small villa in suburban Vittoria. Three people killed.

1985
Drug addicts in Vittoria are more than 400, while in 1979 they were just a few individuals.
The prefecture confirms that drug use reached alarming statistics in the schools in Ragusa, Comiso, Vittoria, Ispica, Scicli, Modica and Pozzallo. No references to the mafia escalation though.

1986
Sustained by mayors of many cities, a protest by 50000 abusive constructors grows in the South, who have a manifestation in Rome to obtain an act of indemnity for unauthorized construction. The movement is headed by the Vittoria mayor.
End of the year. A request to provide a hit squad to kill Vito Ciancimino and Ignazio Salvo arrives from Palermo to Turi Gallo’s Vittoria group. But Claudio and Silvio Carbonaro who should lead the squad, protest. There is a disagreement between their group and the Gallos.

1987
18 February. The boss Turi Gallo is killed by a hit squad from Syracuse.
4 May. Vittorio and Giovanni Gallo are killed in an ambush. The mastermind of the operation is Biagio Gravina, allied to the Carbonaros, who immediately assumes the “regency” of the group.
August. In Niscemi, in the Macello district, two children playing on the streets are killed in an armed conflict between members of the Russo clan and a rival group.

1988
November. Following the Russian-American agreements concerning the armament reduction, the dismantling of the Nato base in Comiso starts.
21 December. A massacre in Gela committed by the “shepherd” group, to which the future bosses Gaetano Ianni’ and Aurelio Cavallo belong. The victims are Salvatore Pollara (a construction businessman, a business associate of Giuseppe Madonia, a member of the Cupola), his wife Giuseppina Maganuco and their sons Giuseppe and Marcello.

1989
10 March. The professor Biagio Gravina is killed in an ambush organized by Luigi Mallia and other clan associates. The three Carbonaro brothers and Carmelo Dominante become the leaders of the group.
7 May. The Vittoria clan Dominante-Carbonaro is put on the Sicilian mafia map, made according to the information provided by the High Commission, and is considered one of the most organized and combative on the island.
9 June. The businessman Salvatore Incardona is killed near his house. He rebelled against protection money requests and tried to convince his colleagues on the fruit market to do the same.
28 July. Giuseppe Rinzivillo, a boss from Gela and an ally of Giuseppe Madonia, is killed on the Gela-Scoglitti highway, several km from Vittoria.
6 October. Following a case of mistaken identity, the agronomist Claudio Volpicelli, with no mafia involvement, is killed in Vittoria, near a warehouse for greenhouse plastic.

1990
July. A massacre in Porto Empedocle in the midst of a crowd, with the military support of the Vittoria group. 3 dead people, including 2 with no crime involvement, and 3 wounded.
25 September. 3 members of the so-called “gypsy group” are killed. The Carbonaros will say they have been raising alarm among people and harming the clan’s prestige.
30 September. In Scoglitti, the Niscemi bosses Salvatore Russo and Calogero Pardo escape a Madonia ambush. They save themselves from the Kalashnikov gunfire thanks to the armor-plates of their autos.
30 October. Two young people, associated with the Rinzivillo-Madonia group, are killed near a pizzeria bar “La Lucciola”.
5 November. A demonstrative massacre with 4 dead people in a small villa in suburban Vittoria. The main targets are Roberto and Franco Piscopo, two emergent members of the clan, suspected of betraying it.
27 November. A massacre in Gela by the Ianni’-Cavallo group, in three different city locations. The goal is to behead the local Cosa Nostra directive. 8 dead people and 7 wounded. Among the dead, the boss Francesco Rinzivillo. The massacre is decided in a hideout in the Ragusa province. 2 hitmen from Vittoria are part of the squad.

1991
January. Inauguration of the new Justice Palace in Gela, in presence of the president Francesco Cossiga.
17 July. Carmelo Dominante and the brothers Claudio and Bruno Carbonaro are arrested for illegal possession of pistols.
23 July. A mafia massacre in Racalmuto. 4 dead people, including a North African with no links to the clan.
6 September. The Antimafia Investigative Directorate (DIA – Direzione Investigativa Antimafia) is formed in Italy, modeled after the American FBI.
21 September. The magistrate Rosario Livatino is murdered in Agrigento.
31 December. A massacre at the Bar 2000 in Palma di Montechiaro, with the help of the Ianni’-Cavallo clan from Gela. 3 dead and 7 wounded.

1992
17 January. The national antimafia Directorate is formed, and the prefect Bruno Siclari is named its director.
On request of the Ragusa prefecture, the Scicli city council is dissolved because of mafia collusions.
5 April. The carabinieri official Giuliano Guazzelli is murdered on the Agrigento-Porto Empedocle highway.
April. The Ragusa ASI (Area di Sviluppo Industriale - Area of Industrial Development) delegates public works costing 10 billions of Liras to the union headed by the Palermo businessman Cataldo Farinella, a mafia fugitive since 1991.
May. The Carbonaro brothers start collaborating with the Catania Antimafia district Directorate. Big revelations about the military aspects of the organization. Few but significant indications about the institutional complicities that involve politicians, public security agents, forensic pathologists, lawyers, magistrates and supreme court members. The Carbonaros also tell – even though with just some allusions – about the collusions with the provincial banks.
4 June. An antimafia operation in Vittoria with 54 arrests.
25 July. The operation Sicilian Vespers is sanctioned and 7000 soldiers are sent to Sicily.
17 October. Dozens of arrests among the Urso clan members in Syracuse.
10 November. The businessman Gaetano Giordano is killed in Gela, for resisting extortion of protection money by the Ianni’-Cavalli group. The confessed mafia killer Angelo Di Stefano reveals that it was Sebastiano Amodei from Vittoria who committed the crime and not Maurizio Campanotta from Comiso (arrested during operation Shark), as the other informants have said.
2 December. A police blitz between Gela, Niscemi, Riesi, Vittoria and Milan against the Ianni’-Cavallo group and the Giuseppe Madonia group. 46 arrests, many of which for people already in prison.
The Ragusa prefecture sends a dossier to the Home Office, requesting the dissolution of the Vittoria city council because of mafia involvement.
The Vittoria city is almost bankrupt. Delinquents cut the phone cords. Furniture and autos are distrained.

1993
The prefect responsible for the Vittoria dossier is removed from his office and transferred to Rome.
5 July. Andrea Castelli is killed in Caucana, a touristic location near Vittoria, shot by Filippo Bilardi from Gela, a fugitive since an antimafia operation by the Caltanissetta antimafia office. The young man had protected his sister from the fugitive’s harassment.

1994
29 January. The carabiniere official Rosario Gugliotta and his deputy, Salvatore Malfa, are arrested in Pozzallo in an antimafia operation, accused of mafia association and of having taken part in a kidnapping.
The Vittoria councillorship proposes the Fanello project to the social politics, which involves social integration of young people at risk. It will never be finished.
28 November. Following the deposition of the Carbonaro brothers about the organization and the murders committed by the Vittoria clan, the operation Shark takes place, with 111 arrests. Among the arrested people, some prominent local businessmen: Matteo Di Martino, the owner of a transport agency; Giovanni Cilia, from the Ge.me.flo union, who controls the local flowers market since 1989; Emanuele Amoroso, the fruit market commission agent. Bartolomeo Conti from Scicli, owner of the Koala maxi, one of the most furnished Sicilian discos, also ends up in prison.
19 December. During operation “Cabrera”, 17 people – including several politicians – are arrested in Pozzallo and Modica for mafia association finalized to the control of public works.

1995.
An anti-immigration campaign in Vittoria by the municipal powers. The primal target: close the community centers and the immigration centers for North Africans.
January. Isidoro Arancino – one of the 111 arrested in November 1994 – confirms the existence of the collusions between the Dominante-Carbonaro clan and some political leaders in Vittoria and Modica.
October. The carabinieri official Rosario Gugliotta, the commander of the Pozzallo carabinieri station, and his deputy, Salvatore Malfa, arrested during an antimafia operation in 1993, are sentenced to 17 and 12 years.
The parliament member Nichi Vendola denounces the crooked management of the local public works during a speech in Vittoria and encourages the antimafia Commission to take care of it. Various associations ask for a formation of an antimafia office in the Ragusa province.

1996
February. The Adn Kronos agency spreads in Vittoria the following notice: “An Islamic fundamentalist base is discovered in Sicily. They were preparing a terroristic attack”. Voices spread about potential demonstrative actions. It’s a fabrication which allows the municipal powers to re-launch the anti-immigration campaign.
10 March. The mechanic Rosario Foresti is killed, the brother of Emanuele, an associate of the Niscemi group. Gianni Mattia remains gravely wounded.
14 April. Emanuele Scaretti disappears. There is only one hypothesis: a “lupara bianca” (white shotgun).
5 June. Sebastiano Amodei vanishes, a “tax collector” for the Dominante-Carbonaro clan, who probably recently passed to the Niscemi group. He was on special surveillance.
10 June. The trial of the Dominante-Carbonaro clan starts in Syracuse in a tense atmosphere because of the continuing murders.
14 July. Raffaele Di Stefano, Angelo Di Nicola and Gaetano Butera are killed in Vittoria. They were associates of the Russo-Pardo group from Niscemi.
7 August. Giuseppe Terranova, one of the people arrested in November 1994, is found dead by suicide in the Busto Arsizio high-security prison. He was accused of having taken part in professor Biagio Gravina’s murder.
16 September. Some figures propose the institution of a permanent antimafia commission in Ragusa.
30 September. The Tunisian Tej Lanouer is bludgeoned to death for unknown reasons in the Fanello district in Vittoria.
11 November. Again the “Islamic fundamentalism” alarm. 8 Algerian illegal immigrants are discovered in an abandoned Fanello farmhouse. Some materials considered “interesting” are found in their possession. The investigations are extended to the whole province.
4 December. Mangache El Hassan from Marocco is killed in Melegnano, in the province of Milan. A young man from Vittoria and another from Gela are arrested. The motive for the killing is a conflict related to drug trafficking.

this is excellent, grazie. my mother and her famil are from scicli and my uncle says there is ever growing activity there and throughout ragusa coz it's where most of the african migrants land. i go there next month and will find out as many specifics as i can

Most african migrants land in Lampedusa, Agrigento.

Lampedusa and Agrigento yes and also Siracusa and Ragusa. Ragusa is often a more popular destination than Agrigento because although the sea journey is longer, it has a wilder coastline, much of which is unmonitored. North African hashish often comes through Ragusa too, for catania i imagine. I see these boats between donnalucata and cava d'aglia and was at sampieri beach last year on the day bodies washed up on the shore during a thunderstorm