Mafia ambush for revenge among rival families: 6 life sentences for the murder of Salvatore Sciacchitano
11/26/2019 11:12 AM NewSicilia Editorial

PALERMO - The Assize Court has sentenced to life imprisonment : Natale Giuseppe Gambino, Domenico Ilardi, Lorenzo Scarantino, Francesco and Gabriele Pedalino and Antonino Profeta. Giuseppe Greco was sentenced to 22 years for mafia association. The defendants also included the name of Salvatore Profeta, now deceased.

The men were held responsible for the murder of Salvatore - called Mirko - Sciacchitano, killed in a mafia ambush for a revenge among rival families. The principal of this revenge is to be identified in the figure of Francesco Pedalino.

On 3 October 2015, Sciacchitano was shot dead by two men who struck the 29-year-old with 10 shots in via Conciliazione. This gesture was the brutal response to the attempted murder of Luigi Cona, wounded a few hours before the murder.