Rolf Milser – Former German weightlifter.
Saverio Montalbano – Former leader of the mobile task force of Trapani and ‘pizza connection’ investigator, now retired.
Antonio Montinaro – Bodyguard of Giovanni Falcone; murdered along with Falcone in 1992.
Nino Mormino – Forza Italia (Popolo della Libertà) MP and defender of Marcello Dell’Utri and Salvatore Cuffaro.
Francesca Morvillo – Wife of the anti-Mafia public prosecutor Giovanni Falcone; murdered with her husband in 1992.
Gioacchino Natoli – Leading public prosecutor with the anti-Mafia investigation unit in Palermo.
Michele Navarra – Doctor and Mafia boss in Corleone; murdered in 1958 by his foster-son, Luciano Liggio.
Giovanni Luca ‘Gianluca’ Nirta – Head of the Calabrian Nirta-Strangio clan from San Luca, widower of Maria Strangio; killed in the Christmas 2006 attack that was intended to kill her husband.
Günther Oettinger – Former minister-president of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Now Commissioner for Energy in the European Commission.
Leoluca Orlando – Former mayor of Palermo and former leader of the opposition in the Sicilian assembly.
Anna Palma – Anti-Mafia public prosecutor from Palermo, now on the anti-Mafia commission in Rome; she worked for Renato Schifani, President of the Italian senate and Popolo della Libertà MP.
Alessandro Paolillo – Brother of Francesco Paolillo, the boy who died while playing in a derelict building in Ponticelli.
Francesco Paolillo – Boy who died while playing in a derelict building in the Naples suburb of Ponticelli.
Roberto Pannunzi – ’Ndranghetista with strong connections to the Colombian drugs cartel, father of Alessandro Pannunzi, with whom he was arrested in 2004.
Giuseppe Pelle – Head of the Pelle-Vottari clan from San Luca, arrested on charges of Mafia membership.
Spartaco Pitanti – Italian businessman, former proprietor of the Paganini restaurant in Erfurt.
Father Vincenzo Pizzitola – Parish priest in Corleone.
Romano Prodi – President of the Democratic Party, several times Italian prime minister, most recently until 2008.
Angelo Provenzano – Son of the Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano; imprisoned in 2006.
Bernardo Provenzano – Formerly the most wanted Mafia boss, successor to Totò Riina as head of Cosa Nostra; arrested in Corleone after forty-three years of hide-and-seek.
Padre Giuseppe Puglisi – Anti-Mafia priest in the Brancaccio suburb of Palermo; murdered by the Mafia in 1993.
Rosario ‘Saruzzo’ Riccobono – Mafia boss of the Partanna- Mondello clan, member of Cosa Nostra council; murdered by his enemy Totò Riina in 1982.
Giovanni Riina – Eldest son of the Sicilian Mafia boss Totò Riina.
Giuseppe Riina – Youngest son of Mafia boss Totò Riina.
Salvatore ‘Totò’ Riina – Mafia boss from Corleone, for a time sole ruler of Cosa Nostra, responsible for Mafia wars and various series of assassinations in the 1980s and 1990s; serving a life sentence since 1993.
Placido Rizzotto – Trade unionist from Corleone, murdered by Luciano Liggio in 1948 on the orders of the boss Michele Navarra.
Franco Roberti – Former leading senior public prosecutor with the anti-Mafia investigation unit in Naples. Now chief prosecutor in Salerno.
Ernesto Ruffini – Former Archbishop of Palermo (1945–67).
Salvo – Taxi driver in Palermo.
Ignazio Salvo – Christian Democrat, the richest businessman in Sicily and representative of the bourgeois Mafia of the 1980s.
Benedetto ‘Nitto’ Santapaola – Sicilian mafioso, clan chief in Catania, member of Cosa Nostra council; in prison since 1993.
Carmine Sarno – Music producer from the Naples suburb of Ponticelli, member of the Sarno Camorra clan.
Ciro Sarno – Imprisoned head of the Sarno Camorra clan.
Vincenzo Scarantino – Temporary Mafia renegade who admitted involvement in the murder of Paolo Borsellino, and later withdrew his statements.
Roberto Scarpinato – Leading senior public prosecutor in the anti-Mafia investigation unit of Palermo, chief prosecutor in the Andreotti trial, now chief prosecutor in Caltanissetta.
Renato Schifani – President of the Italian senate and Forza Italia (Popolo della Libertà) MP.
Rosaria Schifani – Widow of the bodyguard Vito Schifani.
Vito Schifani – Bodyguard of Giovanni Falcone; murdered in the attack on Falcone in 1992.
Antonino Scopelliti – Prosecuting magistrate with the supreme court in Rome; murdered by the Mafia in 1991.
Shobha – Internationally award-winning Sicilian photographer, daughter of the anti-Mafia fighter Letizia Battaglia.
Don Stefano Fernando – Priest in San Luca, Calabria.
Maria Strangio – Wife of the ’Ndranghetista Gianluca Nirta; murdered by their enemy clan at Christmas 2006 in an attack intended to kill her husband.
Don Pino Strangio – Parish priest of San Luca and spiritual head of the pilgrimage site of Madonna di Polsi.
Sebastiano Strangio – Owner of the pizzeria Da Bruno in Duisburg, victim of the Duisburg massacre.
Domenico ‘Don Micu’ Trimboli – Boss of the Calabrian Trimboli clan, international drug dealer; arrested in 2008.
Bernhard Vogel – German Christian Democrat and, until 2003, minister-president of Thuringia.
Franco Zecchin – Italian photographer and long-term partner of Letizia Battaglia.
Note on the Author
Petra Reski was born in Kamen, Germany, in 1958. Having lived in Italy since 1989, she is a widely respected journalist known for her investigative pieces about the Mafia.