Leoluca Bagarella is an Italian criminal and member of the Sicilian Mafia. He is from the town of Corleone. Following Salvatore Riina’s arrest in early 1993, Bagarella became the head of the strategist strategy faction, opposing another faction commanded by the successor designate Bernardo Provenzano, creating a real rift in Cosa Nostra.
Leoluca Bagarella Parents: Meet Salvatore Bagarella, Lucia Mondello
Leoluca Bagarella was born to Salvatore Bagarella and Lucia Mondello. Much information is not known about his parents.
Bagarella was born in Corleone on 3 February 1942. Bagarella sided with Luciano Leggio of the Corleonesi in the late 1950s. Bagarella became the brother-in-law of Salvatore Riina in 1974 when he married Bagarella’s sister, Antonia.
Two of Bagarella’s brothers were also Mafiosi; his elder brother, Calogero Bagarella, was shot dead on December 10, 1969, 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, was murdered in prison in 1972.