Why did Provenzano went hiding in '63 already, and Riina only later on, in '70?
They call Provenzano "Zu Binnu". What does that mean?
After the first Mafia war in the second half of the '60's, were the Corleonesi then already the most powerful faction in Sicily? I know Leggio, Riina, and Zu Binnu went after all the Navarra people after they killed Navarra in at the end of the '50's, but did they also went after the Palermitani (sp?) in the first Mafia War, or was that only in the Second?
Does the Cupola still exist today? If no, when was it done away? If yes, was Provenzano the head of it?
1)On September 10, 1963 the Carabinieri of Corleone denounced him Provenzano for the murder of the mobster Francesco Paolo Streva but also for an mafia association and illegal port of weapon.
2) Riina and was arrested and tried in 1969 for murders carried out earlier that decade.He were acquitted because of intimidation of the jurors and witnesses. Riina went into hiding later that year after he was indicted on a further murder charge and was to remain a fugitive for the next 23 years.
3) "Zu Binnu" mean "Uncle Benny".
4) When was killed Navarra,the Corleonesi was a small family that grown in the 1960s-1970s weakening the Cupola leaders like Badalamenti that was expelled by the Commission in 1978 or Bontade by kidnapping and killing more of the Bontade friends or supportes and with the election of Vito Ciancimino a Palermo in 1971.So in the early 1980s they was strong enought to invade Palermo and kill all the Bontade allies and the same Bontade.
5)After the arrest of Provenzano, an attempt was made to recreate the Cupola but after the Operation Perseus in 2008 it will be necessary to wait for 2018 for the election of a leader in the person of Settimo Mineo, the head of the mandate of Pagliarelli, elected boss during a meeting, on May 29, 2018, in a still unknown location.Mineo was in the list of the 376 criminals freed due the coronavirus but was re-arrested shortly after.
