Cesare Manzella was the head of the Mafia family in Cinisi, a small seaside town near the Punta Raisi Airport.
10 Facts About Cesare Manzella
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Cesare Manzella was a member of the first Sicilian Mafia Commission that was established in 1958.
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Cesare Manzella devoted a proportion of his illicit profits to building an orphanage.
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Cesare Manzella's charity was rewarded by his election as president of the Azione Cattolica in Cinisi.
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Cesare Manzella was heavily involved in cigarette smuggling and heroin trafficking.
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Cesare Manzella was a protagonist in the First Mafia War.
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Cesare Manzella sided with the Grecos and became the target of the rival faction.
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Cesare Manzella was killed on 26 April 1963, when he was blown to pieces by a car bomb.
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Pieces of Cesare Manzella's body were found stuck to lemon trees hundreds of meters from the crater where the car had been.
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Cesare Manzella was an uncle by marriage of Giuseppe Impastato, the Anti-mafia activist who was murdered by the Mafia in 1978.