Giuseppe “Pippo” Calò
Palermo 30 September 1931
Descendant of a family linked for several generations to the Sicilian mafia
In 1949, at the age of eighteen, he was arrested for having shot in the back the assassin of his father Leonardo who was on the run, a certain Francesco "Ciccio" Scaletta, Pippo Calò was arrested for attempted murder while the assassin was found dead a few days later riddled with bullets
In 1954 he was affiliated with the Porta Nuova mafia gang with the blessing of Tommaso Buscetta
From that moment he began to distinguish himself for his ability to open and manage legal businesses, bars, petrol stations, companies for the trade of fabrics
In 1969 Calò was chosen as the new head of the Porta Nuova gang following the death of boss Giuseppe Corvaia from old age. In this period Calò became the main supporter of the boss Luciano Liggio and his deputy Salvatore Riina: the murder of the prosecutor Pietro Scaglione was carried out by Liggio and Riina themselves in the territory of the Casca di Calò, who also provided his men for the seizure of the builder Luciano Cassina ordered by Riina[2]. In 1974, when the "Commission" was rebuilt, Calò became part of it as head of the district of Porta Nuova, which included the mobs of Borgo Vecchio, Palermo center and Porta Nuova.
The strategy to obtain contracts and approval from non-collaborative politicians was that of the kidnappings of the politicians' families, in the case of Ciancimino he had to give up because he did not have the approval of the Corleonesi who on the contrary were on excellent terms with Ciancimino
At the beginning of the seventies Calò moved to Rome. Under the false identity of Mario Aglialoro, he invested in real estate, trade in works of art also through many antique dealers in the center of Rome and worked in money laundering on behalf of the gangs of the Corleonesi line-up, joining the Banda della Magliana, subversives of the Far Right and financial circles, in particular with the fixers Umberto Ortolani, Ernesto Diotallevi and Flavio Carboni; furthermore Calò was in close friendship with the Honorable Francesco Cosentino. In his first period in Rome, Calò initially dealt with clandestine gambling and then, together with boss Stefano Bontate, controlled the distribution of heroin to the underworld groups of Testaccio, Magliana and Ostia-Acilia; after the killing of Bontate, heroin trafficking from Sicily to Rome continued, controlled only by Calò.
The important step was when Calò decided to move definitively to the Corleonesi wing, also abandoning his friend Stefano Bontate, initially it seems he kept his foot in two shoes but when both factions asked him to take a position, he opted for the Corleonesi
capital but that he decided to steal part of the proceeds feeling untouchable and convinced that he was entitled to it
In particular Calò, thanks to his acquaintances in the financial circles, made use of Roberto Calvi and Licio Gelli for the laundering of dirty money, which was invested in the IOR and in Banco Ambrosiano, Calvi's bank. In 1981, following the definitive bankruptcy of Banco Ambrosiano, Calvi will try to save the money invested by Calò on behalf of the other bosses which was lost in the bankruptcy, but his attempts will fail. In 1982 Roberto Rosone, vice president of Banco Ambrosiano who took over from Calvi, survived an ambush carried out by members of the Magliana gang linked to Calò in particular in this attack Danilo Abbruciati was shot in the back by the security guard who intervened to save Rosone
Calvi left for London, perhaps to try to blackmail his previous political allies from abroad, including the honorable Giulio Andreotti, but on 18 June 1982 he was found hanged under the Blackfriars Bridge.
He was the one who organized the Massacre of the Rapido 904 or Christmas massacre which took place on 23 December 1984 in the Grande Galleria dell'Appennino
the bomb had been placed on the train during the stop at the Florence Santa Maria Novella station on carriage nine and the detonation was managed with a radio control even if it was supposedly connected to a timer since the radio control given the distance and the areas of lack of radio coverage it could fail.
There were 16 dead including 3 children and 267 injured and this attack which can be connected to other railway attacks was part of a broader strategy of terror which was the master in those years.
The Pecorelli case and the relationship with the Banda della Magliana
According to some collaborators with justice, Calò would be one of those responsible for the murder of journalist Mino Pecorelli (murdered on March 20 1979 in Rome) due to his ties to the Magliana gang.
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