Salvatore La Barbera, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Sicilian mafioso
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Place of Birth: Palermo, Sicily, Italy
About Salvatore La Barbera
- Salvatore La Barbera (Italian: [salva'to?re la bar'b??ra]; April 20, 1922 – January 17, 1963) was a Sicilian mafioso.
- Together with his brother Angelo La Barbera he ruled the Mafia family of Palermo Centro.
- Salvatore La Barbera sat on the first Sicilian Mafia Commission that was set up in 1958 as the capo mandamento for Mafia families of Borgo Vecchio, Porta Nuova and Palermo Centro.
- La Barbera disappeared during the First Mafia War, a victim of the lupara bianca, never to be seen again. The Palermo police suspected that Salvatore Greco "Ciaschiteddu" and his cousin Salvatore Greco "The Engineer" had arranged a deal whereby Tommaso Buscetta betrayed his former friend, killed him and disposed of his body in the furnaces of his glass factory.
- Buscetta claims to know nothing about the disappearance.
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