Giovanni Spampinato ( Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni spampiˈnaːto] ; 6 November 1946 – 27 October 1972) was an Italian investigative journalist for the Italian newspaper L'Ora (Translated: "The Hour") in Ragusa , Province of Ragusa , Sicily , Italy , who brought to attention mafioso Roberto Campria's connection to a murder in February 1972, before his own murder eight months later.
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34-678: A good family," destroying his life and reputation. After Spampinato's death, he started being recognized as a journalist who was murdered while doing his story. In 2007, Saint-Vincent Journalism Awards presented a posthumous Special Jury Award to Giovanni Spampinato. Every year, the city of Ragusa has sponsored a forum about Spampinato and the facts surrounding his murder. Cosimo Cristina Cosimo Cristina ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈkɔːzimo kriˈstiːna] ; 11 August 1935 in Termini Imerese – 5 May 1960 in Termini Imerese)
51-527: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Giovanni Spampinato As children, the Spampinato brothers were influenced by the politics of their father Peppino, who had fought in Yugoslavia and was an active communist. Giovanni and his brother Alberto Spampinato both became journalists. Giovanni Spampinato took a job at the newspaper L'Ora after graduating with a degree in philosophy from
68-619: The University of Catania in 1969. He was a member of the Italian Communist Party and ran for a political office but lost. Giovanni Spampinato was an investigative journalist for the L'Ora , a communist newspaper. There he reported on fascists in Ragusa and Catania . Among his reports for L'Ora was a connection between the Sicilian mafia and murder, which is how he began to report about
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102-503: The autopsy report, brought to the attention of Vincenzo Milana, a teacher of Forensics at the University of Catania . He asked to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Palermo, through a collection of signatures, the reopened of the inquiry, but the outcome was negative. However the municipal administration of Termini Imerese dedicated a road in honor of the missing journalist in 2000. On 5 May 2010, Termini's associations, solicited under
119-435: The corner from a prison in Ragusa, Italy, and Campria shot him six times with a Smith & Wesson revolver while Spampinato was inside of his white Fiat Cinquecento shortly before 11 p.m., 27 October 1972. Campria then went to the prison and confessed to the murder. He said he acted out in a fit of rage due to Spampinato falsely accusing him of his Mafia work. Although Campria was originally sentenced to 24 years, his sentence
136-532: The investigators to think it had been a suicide. His family was the first to raise the issue and to point out some particulars, then his colleagues that worked for L'Ora of Palermo, and also the brave journalist Mario Francese (also a victim of the mafia), but only 6 years later this case was reopened. In 1966 was carried out the autopsy on the journalist's body: the experts Marco Stassi and Ideale Del Carpio excluded that he had killed himself and they confirmed that he had been killed. From this moment Cosimo Cristina
153-518: The leadership of Vittorio Nisticò, published anti-Mafia information. Other journalists killed by the Sicilian mafia were Giuseppe Impastato , murdered in 1978, Carmine "Mino" Pecorelli in 1979, Mario Francese in 1979, Giuseppe Fava in 1984, Giancarlo Siani in 1985, Mauro Rostagno (in Italian) in 1988, and Beppe Alfano (in Italian) in 1993. Those journalists were primarily working at
170-833: The local level and were not nationally known. Alberto Spampinato, inspired by his brother's murder, founded Ossigeno per l'informazione Osservatorio (Translated: Oxygen for Information Observatory) that is aligned with Freedom House and Reporters Without Borders and monitors the journalistic environment in Italy and safety and security issues. Alberto Spampinato, journalist for the news agency Ansa and co-author of Vite ribelli , describes his brother: "A boy slim, slender, who by his looks seemed mild and harmless. Behind his glasses for short-sightedness, his eyes shined with curiosity, and intelligence and desire emerge." A few local newspapers described him as "a torturer," "a communist blinded by class hatred" that had begun to target "that guy from
187-454: The periodic founded by him, he followed with particular attention crime beat, the mafia phenomenon and its ramifications in the territories of Termini Imerese and Caccamo . Those activities led up to his death sentence by certain mafia clans . The circumstances of the murder were studied as if it had been a suicide. In fact he was found first of all dead on the tracks of the railways inside the tunnel Fossola near Termini Imerese, and this led
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#1732876061236204-445: The person who confessed to murdering him. While his reporting focused on Roberto Campria's involvement in the mafia, some people believe it was his reporting Campria's alleged involvement in the murder of Angelo Tumino, an antiquity dealer, that pushed Campria to murder him. In 2008, the Spampinato family received an anonymous and previously unpublished letter about the motive of jealousy behind Angelo Tumino's murder 25 February 1972 and
221-491: The reporter had been killed and then deposited on the tracks for feigned the suicide. The councilor of the Christian Democracy Agostino Rubino (one of the mafia bosses of Termini) and the boss Santo Gaeta were accused by the cop of being the instigators of the murder, who then were exonerated. After a lot of years, Mirone resumed that correspondence and brought it to light, by underlining contradictions in
238-514: Was an Italian journalist killed by the Mafia . Cristina began his career as a journalist in 1955 when he was twenty. Then he founded and ran in Palermo the newspaper "Prospettive Siciliane" . From 1959 he worked as a correspondent for L'Ora of Palermo, for Il Giorno of Milan , for the agency ANSA , for Il Messaggero of Roma and for Il Gazzettino of Venice . Young and ambitious, with
255-529: Was an act out of jealousy. After Angelo Tumino was killed, Spampinato began to investigate the murder and dig deeper into the Sicilian Mafia. He was investigating Roberto Campria involvement with the Mafia and his connection to Tumino's murder. During this time, he was leaking information about the Mafia in great detail. L'Ora eventually stopped publishing in 1992 after being around since the early 1900s. Roberto Campria confronted Giovanni Spampinato around
272-491: Was reduced to 14 years on appeal, but he served only eight years. The Sicilian Mafia, also known as, Cosa Nostra ("Our Thing"), not only killed Spampinato but 12 other journalists as well. Cosimo Cristina (in Italian) was murdered in 1960 on railroad tracks by the mafia. Mauro De Mauro was disappeared in 1970 after uncovering details about the death of politician Enrico Mattei . Cristina, De Mauro and Spampinato worked also worked at L'Ora . This newspaper, under
289-411: Was totally forgotten. In 1999 the journalist Luciano Mirone from Catania dug up the case and he found out that the deputy commissioner of Palermo Angelo Mangano in 1966, famous for a photo known all over the world while he handcuffed the boss of Corleone Luciano Liggio , reopened the inquiry and wrote an explosive report that was neutralized by the result of the postmortem. Mangano found out that
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