Mafia, decline and death of the Rizzuto clan: the whole story (true) ended in a film The elimination of Andrea "Andrew" Scoppa is the latest episode in a war torn between Canadian mafia families triggered by the decline of the Rizzuto clan. Grandangolo has dealt much with North American mafia events driven by the territorial ownership of its historical exponents of the Agrigento region. Some time ago with a lucid interview with the former senator of the Democratic Party, Giuseppe Lumia had focused our spotlight on Canada and the Agrigento families operating in that vast territory, illuminating disquieting scenarios on the mafia phenomenon and returning attention to what happened in the past and on the truly prominent role of the Agrigento mafia in all the criminal dynamics, including transnational ones, which have consecrated clans of absolute mafia prestige, such as those of the Caruana - Cuntrera and the Rizzutos, at the top of the international organized crime. Even today, these names are back in the limelight and have recently appeared among the papers of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the Mafia phenomenon. Not everyone knows that - the events date back to half a century ago, testifying that the mafia of Agrigento was and is powerful - Cosa Nostra had even a head of the so-called Cupola, in that Giuseppe Settecasi, later assassinated under the house, who besides driving the commission of Cosa Nostra flew, at seventy and more years of age, both in Canada and in America to put in place delicate and difficult situations and remedy the disagreements between the mafia and ndrine of the Calabrian ndrangheta. That Giuseppe Settacasi who was at the head of Cosa Nostra Sicilian for a well-defined period during which the internecine war between Sicilian gangs had "turned upside down" (words of Tommaso Buscetta) the honored society. For the Canadian red coats, who had intercepted and listened to Settecasi on April 22 and May 10, 1974 in Paul Violi's "Reggio Bar" in Montreal while giving orders and explaining how the mafia worked in Sicily (for the half-island police stations it was a poor 80-year-old pensioner playing cards, in shirt sleeves, with taxi drivers at the central station of Agrigento) the old boss was a mafia authority so charismatic he could heal the disagreements between the ndrangheta and the Cosa Nostra. Those interceptions that explained the exact organization chart of the Sicilian mafia of those years, ended up in a drawer of the Questura of Agrigento and never used. It took the first massacre of Porto Empedocle, 14 years later, to understand its role and scope. And in these 14 years the mafia has enormously exaggerated its power by carrying out massacres, killing men of the institutions, controlling the social, entrepreneurial and political life of an entire nation. In 1974, therefore, as proof of the consolidated friendship and business relations between the exponents of the North American mafia and the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Vincent Cotroni, Nick Rizzuto and the local representatives of the Cuntrera-Caruana families received Giuseppe Settecasi, head of the gangs, in Canada mafia members of the entire province of Agrigento. The climate of the time was very heavy, the Sicilian mafia was torn by an internecine war that would have allowed, some time later, the climb to the top of the Corleonesi of Riina and Provenzano. In an endless series of meetings in Montreal, Epiphani, Hamilton and New York, Settecasi met the main exponents of the Italian-American mafia, including Paul Castellano, Paul Violi, Giuseppe Cuffaro, Gerlando Sciascia, Angelo Mongiovì, Emanuele Ragusa. The main reason for Settecasi's trip, according to Canadian authorities, was to strengthen relations between the mafia on the two continents and repair a rift within local criminal groups. Settecasi was to smooth out the differences that arose in the cosca represented by Vincent Cotroni, between Leonardo Caruana and the same Nicola Rizzuto who had questioned his appointment as head of the district. Rizzuto, in particular, did not like the familiarity created between Vic Cotroni and the Calabrese Paul Violi, strongly on the rise in Canadian crime, also thanks to the marriage with Grazia Luppino, the daughter of Giacomo Luppino, the original boss of Castellace di Oppido Mamertina and representative of Magaddino "family". Precisely Cotroni, in that marriage, had acted as ringleader to Paul Violi. The pax mafiosa reached thanks to the mediation of Settecasi was short-lived. In 1975 Vincent Cotroni was jailed for refusing to testify before the Canadian Parliament's Committee of Inquiry on the Mafia phenomenon. Paul Violi was appointed his successor. From Caracas, where Nick Rizzuto had been forced to relocate by starting a restaurant he called "The Godfather", the military counter-offensive against the new Montreal boss was organized. One by one all Violi's subjects fell. The Mafia war was fierce and in the streets of the Canadian metropolis there were about twenty murders. Then, in 1978, it was the turn of Paul Violi himself to end up murdered in the "Reggio Bar", the restaurant he managed in Montreal and which had been the site of the summit between the North American mafia and Giuseppe Settecasi.