Santino Di Matteo (born 7 December 1954), also known as Mezzanasca, is an Italian former member of the Sicilian Mafia from the town of Altofonte in the province of Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
Who Is Giuseppe Di Matteo?
Giuseppe Di Matteo is the son of the Sicilian Mafia,
In retaliation for Di Matteo becoming an informant, the Mafia kidnapped his 12-year-old son, Giuseppe Di Matteo, on 23 November 1993, on the orders of Giovanni Brusca and Leoluca Bagarella.
According to a later confession by one of the kidnappers, Gaspare Spatuzza, they dressed as police officers and told the boy he was being taken to see his father, who was at that time being kept in police protection on the Italian mainland.
Di Matteo made a desperate trip to Sicily to try to negotiate his son’s release, but on 11 January 1996, after 779 days, the boy, who by now had also become physically ill due to mistreatment and torture, was finally strangled
His body was subsequently dissolved in a barrel of acid—a practice known colloquially as the lupara Bianca. The murderers were Enzo Brusca, brother of Giovanni, Vincenzo Chiodo, and Salvatore Monticciolo on the orders of Giovanni Brusca.