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Stefano Bontade (23 April 1939 – 23 April 1981), born Stefano Bontate, was a powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was the boss of the Santa Maria di Gesù Family in Palermo. He was also known as the Principe di Villagrazia (Prince of Villagrazia) − the area of Palermo he controlled − and Il Falco (the Falcon). [1]
Stefano Bontate ( Palermo, 23 aprile 1939 – Palermo, 23 aprile 1981) è stato un mafioso italiano, legato a Cosa nostra. Erroneamente, talune fonti riportano il cognome "Bontade".
Stefano Bontade, one of the most powerful and well connected figures in the Sicilian Mafia in the 1960s and 1970s, was born on this day in 1939 in Palermo, where he was murdered exactly 42 years later in a birthday execution that sparked a two-year war between the island’s rival clans.
Stefano Bontate era il boss mafioso soprannominato “il Falco” od anche “il principe di Villagrazia”. La storia di Bontade lambisce molti dei segreti italiani, dalla morte di Enrico Mattei,...
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Stefano Bontade, the infamous Sicilian Mafia boss, was widely known as the Prince of Villagrazia due to his influential position and authority in the Villagr...
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Mar 14, 2024 · Eleven years later, a Mafia informant will describe how Stefano Bontade admitted to him that he had physically strangled Giaconia helped by Riccobono. His death was Cosa Nostra politics squared, and not connected into the kidnapping of Mandala.
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Apr 23, 1981 · On this day in 1981 Stefano Bontade, a Sicilian mobster who was the boss of the Santa Maria di Gesù Family in Palermo was machine-gunned down while driving his car back from his 42nd Birthday party.
