Francesco Paolo Vitale died, his cousin was the first repentant that nobody wanted to believe
September 25, 2021
He was 78 years old and had spent part of his life trying to rehabilitate the name of Leonardo, who decided to collaborate but was believed to be crazy

Francesco Paolo Vitale died. He was 78 years old and had spent part of his life trying to rehabilitate the name of his cousin Leonardo Vitale, the first repentant of the Mafia .
Defined by many as the "Valachi di Altarello", Leonardo was born in Palermo in 1941. At the age of 17 his uncle, Titta Vitale, decided to make him an honorable man of Cosa Nostra and to see if he was capable of killing , handed him a gun and told him to kill a horse. He followed orders. In 1973, following a mystical crisis, he decided to repent and spill the beans, revealing his secrets to Bruno Contrada, at the time a manager in Palermo. From his confessions came out the names of big names of the mafia elitelike Pippo Calò, Vito Ciancimino and even Totò Riina, who was not yet the boss of the bosses. But not everyone believed him. Although he was defined as reliable, he was referred to as partially mentally ill . In June 1984 Leonardo Vitale was released from prison, but on December 2, 1984, he fell into a mafia ambush and died five days later.
His cousin Francesco Paolo, who passed away after a long illness, has fought over the last thirty years to make known the true story of the first collaborator of justice. On Monday the funeral in the Capuchin church.