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The story of "Tractor", who was Bernardo Provenzano, the boss who changed Cosa Nostra

2023-01-18 17:49:14Histori SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Bernardo Provenzano

He didn't use a phone, he didn't trust technology, he terrorized an entire nation with Cosa Nostra. How did he change the mafia, abandoning violence and entering the business world? Get to know the story of Bernardo Provenzano, the great mafioso who changed the culture of the mafia.

The story begins in 1933. Provenzano is born at night at 4 o'clock. Coincidence for someone who will later be called the elusive ghost. He is born on the same day that Adolf Hitler takes power in Nazi Germany.

Bernardo spends his youth working like his father in the fields gathering wheat. From a poor Sicilian family, he gets tired from a young age with the conditions that the difficult life gives him in a Sicily that is very poor after the world war. He starts doing small jobs for the head of the mafia family, Michele Navarra. Desperate youth makes him known as a ruthless killer. Very quickly he climbs the steps of crime and becomes the right hand of the new boss Luciano Leggio.

The story of "Tractor", who was Bernardo Provenzano, the boss who
Provenzano and young Riina

He, along with another prominent figure of the mafia, Toto Riina, are put in the service of Leggio.

Leggio said of Provenzano: Bernardo has the brains of a donkey, but he has the aim of a monster. Provenzano's former boss, fearful of Liggio's rise to power, orders his confidants to eliminate Leggio. In an assassination attempt against him, Leggio is injured, but does not lose his life. Now is his time to fight back. He, together with his two most ruthless generals, Riina and Provenzano, set a trap for Navarre, who, while returning from a meeting with other mafia bosses, was assassinated by the murderous trio and died under a barrage of 112 bullets. Even his men fall one by one. Liggio is now the new father of the mafia.

Godfatheri i ri

At the end of the 60s, Leggio was arrested under very suspicious circumstances. Two friends and two Corleones: Bernando Provenzano and Salvatore Rinna in 1974 after the arrest of Liggio become the first of the Corleone family. But the so-called "Beasts" were never satisfied. In 1981 they caused the war within the mafia, eliminating the rival bosses, and thus created the Commission, composed only of the bosses of their loyal circles. Many penitent families are slaughtered. Toto Riina's idea is that even a small child when he grows up is able to take revenge for his murdered father, so he should be eliminated now that he is a baby. The Kingdom of Riina leaves behind 800 mobsters, including members of the murdered family. When the Italian state gains the power it lacked, it begins the persecution of the mafia. Riina orders revenge. Persons with high legal positions are eliminated. Two officials die in a bomb attack. Many members of the mafia are either arrested, or leave Sicily or repent. The two Corleones managed to get the head of Cosa Nostra.

The 43-year-old mystery

But the 43-year-old mystery begins here, in the 60s. Where is Provenzano located? Riina's close friend and Cosa Nostra's wild father is a ghost. Only one photo of him is known, nothing more.

For a long period, 43 years to be exact, Provenzano is nothing more than a ghost on the streets of Corleone province. The police are looking for him, he is only present at bloody events. Every crime of Cosa Nostra seems to be his doing. Toto Riina himself is thought to be just a leader but he does not have the fame of the butcher Provenzano. Even, as if to make fun of the state, in the 90s he was cured in Marseille, France. More than 30 years have passed and the police only have one photo of him from about 30 years ago. Now he is old. With the help of computers, the police create sketches of what Provenzano might actually look like.

The story of "Tractor", who was Bernardo Provenzano, the boss who
Provenzano and Riina

Don Bernardo “TRAKTORI” Pronvenzano

They call him Binnu the Tractor, because according to legend, he took his rivals forward with his gun like a tractor. Provenzano was left alone at the top. The strategy changed: from bombs to hiding.

The world's most invisible man was looking for a more hidden, less visible Cosa Nostra.

It reduced the number of murders and scandalous actions and focused the mafia on business. Now the supreme leader of Cosa Nostra becomes not only a criminal who has escaped justice for 43 years, but also an invisible legend. Only one 40-year-old photograph is known. The family has not met him for 40 years. The only way he communicates with his family and confidants is coded letters. He doesn't use a phone, doesn't trust technology and continues to terrorize an entire nation with his place in the symbol of fear called Cosa Nostra.

Provenzano was a shadow, elusive. Those 43 years have been unsuccessful for the carabinieri to catch him after his endless escapes. Escape was often at risk, but one way or another he managed to succeed. Like in 1990, when a police car patrol stops a car on the road in the province of Enna. He was inside the car, but no one noticed, as the repentant Angelo Siino says. Even in 2001, when a police team was near the house in the village where he was staying, but again they could not catch him.

In 2003, Bennardo Provenzano goes to France. Posing as a baker, he was admitted to a clinic in Marseille for prostate surgery.

He was helped by some Villabate mobsters who gave him false documents to travel and be hospitalized.

This fact was revealed only two years after the end of the investigations that led to his imprisonment.

arrest

April 11, 2006. News outlets across Italy announce that the ghost now has a face and a body. The last father of the mafia, the man who mocked Italian justice for 43 years, the one before whom the whole of Sicily trembled and the opponents in general, is prey to the police forces.

The story of "Tractor", who was Bernardo Provenzano, the boss who

How he was arrested

Pursuing the only connection to the outside world, the Palermo police began to close in on the boss. A long investigation following letters and several packages addressed to him. It all led to a villa in the district of Montagna dei Cavalli, in his birthplace. 10 days of pursuit and then the attack. On April 11, 2006, Bernandro Provenzano's escape ended. It was he himself who confirmed his identity to the agents with many compliments and shaking hands with the policemen. After 43 years, with different identities, the world recognized the true capo of Cosa Nostra.

letters

No phone, especially a cell phone. The Cosa Nostra capo communicated only by letter. With the family and the mafia organization: from romantic letters to the wife to the rules of assigned work or collecting money. Bits of paper passed from hand to hand of his most trusted, leaving the eavesdroppers out of the game.

Simplicity

Provenzano's last refuge before his arrest sheds light on many aspects of his life. Starting with a simple lifestyle, he did not like extravagant things, not even swimming pools. It had a bed and a simple refrigerator, a bathroom, a stove and a typewriter that he used to send letters.

Bible

Crosses, Bibles and images of saints. His shelter was full of them. This showed the boss's strange connection with religion. A mysterious bible found in his home with memorabilia and codes made by Provenzano himself. Many analysts have tried to decipher it. But for now everything still remains a mystery.

Fines

Over the years, Bernando Provenzano racked up around 20 life sentences. Among them, for numerous murders, robberies and massacres. The assassination of Commissioner Cassara and the Attorney General, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa. During his imprisonment he was transferred several times. He has often tried to kill himself by suffocating himself with a plastic bag, but all times he has been stopped by prison officers.

Illness and death

On March 19, 2011, the news is confirmed: Bernardo Provenzano has bladder cancer.

Two years later, Provenzano was physically unrecognizable, having been altered by the disease. It was so heavy that he couldn't even raise his hand to talk on the intercom with his son. On July 13, 2016 he died in the San Paoli hospital room in Milan.

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