Placido Rizzotto
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Placido Rizzotto (Italian pronunciation: [ˈplaːtʃido ritˈtsɔtto]; 2 January 1914 – 10 March 1948) was an Italian partisan, socialist peasant and trade union leader from Corleone, who was kidnapped and murdered by Sicilian Mafia boss Luciano Leggio on 10 March 1948.
Placido Rizzotto è stato un sindacalista e politico italiano, afferente al massimalismo socialista, rapito e ucciso da Cosa nostra.
May 24, 2012 · More than 60 years after he was killed for challenging the Mafia in his hometown, Sicilian leader Placido Rizzotto is finally being laid to rest, the BBC's Alan Johnston reports.
Oct 20, 2000 · Placido Rizzotto: Directed by Pasquale Scimeca. With Marcello Mazzarella, Vincenzo Albanese, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli, Gioia Spaziani. The real story of Placido Rizzotto, a trade union leader murdered by the mafia in Sicily in 1948.
May 24, 2012 · More than 60 years after he was killed for challenging the Mafia in his hometown, Sicilian leader Placido Rizzotto is finally being laid to rest, the BBC's Alan Johnston reports.
The true story of Sicilian trade union organizer Placido Rizzotto's struggle against Mafia corruption and control of the unions, appropriation of land, and exploitation of peasant workers during the early days of the Corleonese Mafia in the late 1940s.
May 24, 2012 · After campaigning by family and relatives, union leader Placido Rizzotto is to be honoured over 60 years after he was killed in Corleone by the Mafia.
