Monday afternoon at Belmonte Mezzagno, ten kilometers from Palermo, construction contractor Giuseppe Benigno, 45, was injured in the arm and shoulder during an ambush. He was going along Via Kennedy aboard his BMW as it was flanked by two killers on a motorcycle who fired several shots. He was the driver of Filippo Bisconti, former head of the mafia district of Belmonte Mezzagno and today one of the last repentants of Cosa Nostra after his arrest during the "Cupola 2.0" operation on 4 December last year.


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