Cuccia has also been mentioned as one of the mafiosi behind the Portella della Ginestra massacre during a Labour Day manifestation on May 1 , 1947 , when 11 people were killed and 33 wounded by the bandit Salvatore Giuliano . A few weeks before the massacre , Cuccia and others had asked landowners for money to " put an end to the communists once and for all . " They made clear that they were ready to go beyond the traditional acts of Mafia violence that had been used against the socialist peasant movement before the rise of fascism in the early 1920s when six socialist militants had been killed in Piana
Portella della Ginestra massacre
Portella della Ginestra massacre
Francesco Cuccia