Placido Rizzotto (; 2 January 1914 – 10 March 1948) was an Italians partisan,
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Discovery of body and aftermath
Over 60 years after his death, remains were found on 7 July 2009, on a cliff in
Rocca Busambra near Corleone, and on 9 March 2012, a
DNA test, compared with one extracted from his father Carmelo Rizzotto, long dead and exhumed for this purpose, confirmed the identity of remains as those of Placido Rizzotto following a long and difficult investigation conducted by the State Police at the service of the PS Commissariat of Corleone.
[ Identificati dopo 64 anni i resti di Rizzotto il sindacalista che combatteva la mafia di Liggio] On 16 March 2012, the Council of Ministers announced a
State Funeral would be held for Rizzotto,
[Claudio Sardo, "Funerali di Stato per Placido Rizzotto", L'Unità, 16 March 2012. Archived from the original 18 March 2012. ] which took place in Corleone on 24 May 2012, attended by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.
[ "Il presidente Napolitano a Corleone per i funerali di Placido Rizzotto", PalermoToday, 22 May 2012]
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A biopic of Placido Rizzotto was made by Pasquale Scimeca, released in 2000.[ Placido Rizzotto (2000) at IMDB]
See also
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Il Capo dei Capi
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List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia
