Michele Cavataio (18 March 1929 – 10 December 1969), also known as Il cobra (The cobra) was an Italian mobster and powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia...

1969 was a settling of accounts in the Sicilian Mafia. Mafia boss Michele Cavataio and three men were killed in the Viale Lazio in Palermo, Sicily, by...

December 1969: the killing of Michele Cavataio for his role in the First Mafia War. The attack nearly went wrong, as Cavataio was able to shoot to death...

cooperating witness in 1984, Michele Cavataio, the boss of the Acquasanta quarter of Palermo, was responsible for the Ciaculli bomb. Cavataio had lost out to the...

California home in 2003. The Colt Cobra was the favourite weapon of Michele Cavataio, in fact he used this weapon into the first mafia war. Ray Midge, the...

paper, lest such evidence fall into the hands of the police. In 1969, Michele Cavataio was murdered because he had drawn a map on which he had written the...

in the Viale Lazio in Palermo, during a shootout with rival mafioso Michele Cavataio and his men, known as the Viale Lazio massacre. A second brother, Giuseppe...

against his former boss, Michele Navarra. On 10 December 1969, Bagarella was killed in an attack on Mafia boss Michele Cavataio, the boss of the Acquasanta...

mandamento (Palermo) Mariano Troia for the San Lorenzo mandamento (Palermo) Michele Cavataio for the Acquasanta mandamento (Palermo) Calcedonio Di Pisa for the...

and he was also one of those responsible for ordering the death of Michele Cavataio by sending two of his soldiers, Gaetano Grado and Emanuele D'Agostino...

conflict, but it was later discovered that the war was in fact started by Michele Cavataio, who was hostile to both Grecos and La Barbera and successfully pitted...

Salvatore Sciarabba Giuseppe Balsano (1945–2005) Salvatore Lombardo Michele Cavataio (1929–1969) Gaetano Fidanzati (1935–2013) Giuseppe Graviano (born 1963)...

Bernardo Provenzano for the Viale Lazio massacre and the death of Michele Cavataio. In 2010, he was given another life sentence, together with Giuseppe...

Cancemi (1942–2011) Benedetto Capizzi (1944–2023) Alfonso Caruana Michele Cavataio (1929–1969) Salvatore Contorno Antonio Cottone (1904/05–1956) Salvatore...

the offices of Michele Cavataio dressed with uniforms of the Guardia di Finanza. The aim of the attack is to assassinate Michele Cavataio, who had earlier...

Nostra. The killer of Galatolo was never identified, but Michele Cavataio was suspected. Cavataio became the new boss of the clan and had to agree to split...

wholesale market. The killers were Michele Cavataio and Salvatore Licandri, who was killed a few days later by Cavataio to hide his responsibility in the...

alongside Emanuele D'Agostino, sent to assassinate the Mafia boss Michele Cavataio in what later became known as the Viale Lazio massacre on December...

Sicilian Mafia gang boss Michele Cavataio. Dressed in police uniforms, five hitmen led by Bernardo Provenzano raided Cavataio's office in what appeared...

the man behind the bomb attack, but it was eventually found to be Michele Cavataio. On February 9, 1964, Torretta was arrested. He was one of the main...

the attack, although the one behind it was in fact another mafioso, Michele Cavataio, as he tried to pit the Grecos and La Barberas against one another...

pentito Antonino Calderone recalled that, due to this, Mafia boss Michele Cavataio had been plotting to murder Scaglione, a plot which was called off...

in Palermo (while he was supposed to be in exile) when Mafia boss Michele Cavataio was killed by a Mafia hit squad for his double-crossing role in the...

executed Michele Cavataio on December 10, 1969, in the Viale Lazio in Palermo as retaliation for the events during the First Mafia War in 1963. Cavataio had...

Vincenzo Nicoletti of Pallavicino, Pietro Torretta of Uditore and Michele Cavataio from Acquasanta, one of the instigators of the First Mafia War which...

Chicago Outfit's Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo). December 10 – Michele Cavataio and three of his men are killed in the Viale Lazio in Palermo by a...

that Mafia boss Michele Cavataio had killed Di Pisa, according to Tommaso Buscetta after he became a cooperating witness in 1984. Cavataio had lost out to...

the man who had actually triggered the war by framing La Barbera, Michele Cavataio. Also there were Giuseppe Calò and Luciano Leggio. The trial opened...

the man who had actually triggered the war by framing La Barbera, Michele Cavataio. Also there were Giuseppe Calo and Luciano Leggio. The trial opened...

Barbera are blamed for the killing, which was probably carried out by Michele Cavataio. Considered to be the start of the First Mafia War Salvatore Sabella...