Libero Grassi

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title: Libero Grassi
text: Libero Grassi was an Italian clothing manufacturer from Palermo, Sicily, who was killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. The businessman wrote an open letter to the local newspaper informing the extortionists that he was no longer willing to pay pizzo, a Sicilian term for protection money. Other business-owners and shopkeepers in Palermo refused to join his public campaign. Grassi was gunned down in the street near his home eight months after writing th
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description: Italian clothing manufucturer
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libero_Grassi
date created: 2006-11-22T21:02:02Z
date modified: 2024-08-29T22:40:44Z
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