Giuseppe Nirta (born 1940), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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'Ndrangheta boss, head of the Nirta clan
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Place of Birth: San Luca, Calabria, Italy
About Giuseppe Nirta (born 1940)
- Giuseppe Nirta (born October 19, 1940 in San Luca) is a boss of the 'Ndrangheta from San Luca in Calabria.
- He is the current head of the Nirta clan. The Nirta clan is allied with the Strangio clan in a vendetta against the Pelle-Vottari-Romeo families known as the so-called San Luca feud.
- The bloody feud between the clans began in February 1991 during a carnival celebration in San Luca when anger over an egg-throwing incident boiled over and culminated in the killing of two members of the Strangio-Nirta clan and the wounding of two others.The feud re-exploded after a seven-year lull at Christmas 2006 when gunmen ambushed the Nirta’s son Giovanni Luca Nirta.
- He escaped unharmed but his wife Maria Strangio – a cousin of Giovanni Strangio – was killed.
- Giuseppe Nirta is accused of murdering Bruno Pizzata, a member of the Pelle-Vottari clan, on January 4, 2007.The vendetta attracted international attention on August 15, 2007, when six men belonging to the Pelle-Romeo clan were shot dead in their cars in front of a pizzeria near Duisburg train station in western Germany. Nirta was one of Italy's 100 most wanted criminals and arrested on May 23, 2008.
- He was hiding in a bunker in San Luca.
- On July 12, 2011, the Criminal Court in Locri sentenced Nirta to life imprisonment for the Duisburg killings.
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