Giuseppe Graviano

Giuseppe Graviano (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ɡraˈvjaːno]; 30 September 1963) is an Italian mafioso from the Brancaccio quarter in Palermo. He also was one of the men of the death squad that murdered Salvatore Contorno's relatives. He is currently serving several life sentences. He and his three siblings became members of the Sicilian Mafia Commission for the Brancaccio-Ciaculli mandamento, substituting Giuseppe Lucchese who was in prison.

Mafia bomb attacks in 1992-1993

Graviano was among Mafia bosses linked with the murders of the Antimafia judges Giovanni Falcone in the Capaci bombing and Paolo Borsellino in the Via D'Amelio bombing, as well as the attempted murder of Commissioner Rino Germana.

After the arrest of Mafia boss Totò Riina in January 1993, the remaining bosses, among them Giuseppe Graviano, Matteo Messina Denaro, Giovanni Brusca, Leoluca Bagarella, Antonino Gioè and Gioacchino La Barbera came together a few times (often in the Santa Flavia area in Bagheria, on an estate owned by the mafioso Leonardo Greco). They decided on a strategy to force the Italian state to retreat. That resulted in a series of bomb attacks in 1993 in the Via dei Georgofili in Florence, in Via Palestro in Milan and in the Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano and Via San Teodoro in Rome, which left 10 people dead and 93 injured as well as damage to centres of cultural heritage such as the Uffizi Gallery.

The Graviano brothers, including the eldest one Benedetto Graviano, were seen as the organizers of the operation, in particular, to select the men who would carry out the bombings. Giuseppe and Filippo Graviano each received a life sentence for the bombings.