Italian Prisoners Sentenced to Life Imprisonment: Raffaele Cutolo, Salvatore Riina, Renato Vallanzasca, Luciano Leggio, Michele Greco

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Raffaele Cutolo, Salvatore Riina, Renato Vallanzasca, Luciano Leggio, Michele Greco, Francesco Bidognetti, Gennaro Rubino, Donato Bilancia, Francesco Schiavone, Francesco Madonia, Giovanni Tegano, Gaetano Bresci, Vincenzo Puccio, Amerigo Dumini, Filippo Marchese, Luigi Lucheni, Raffaele Diana, Michael Lupo, Salvatore Russo, Cesare Corte, Pasquale Russo, Pietro Acciarito. Excerpt: Raffaele Cutolo (born December 20, 1941) is an Italian crime boss and the charismatic leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO), an organisation he built to renew the Camorra. Cutolo has a variety of nicknames including 'o Vangelo (the gospel), 'o Principe (the prince), 'o Professore (the professor) and 'o Monaco (the monk). Apart from 18 months on the run, Cutolo has lived inside maximum-security jails or psychiatric prisons since 1963. He is serving multiple life sentences for murder. Cutolo was born in Ottaviano, a municipality in the hinterland of Naples, in a family without ties in the Camorra. His fatherless youth was spent in a close-knit Catholic environment. His father was an agricultural labourer who for years tilled a field as a sharecropper as a means to support his family. While still a child, the landowner told Cutolo's father that the following year the field would be used for a different purpose and that his services were no longer required. In desperation, his father turned to the local Camorra boss, whose word was law in the village. The boss invited the Cutolo family to his home and promised to settle everything. A short time later, the landowner changed his mind and the contract was renewed. A bad student, violent and inattentive, at 12 Cutolo was already roaming the streets with a gang of teenagers, committing petty burglaries and harassing shopkeepers. As soon as he could drive he bought a car, both for pre...