September 18, 1927 - Gerlando Alberti
His nickname, "the imperturbable one," captures something essential about his role within the Sicilian Mafia — a steady presence across some of the organization's most consequential acts of violence and criminal enterprise during the 1960s and 70s. From massacres to the suspected disappearance of a journalist investigating sensitive political territory, his involvement spanned both spectacular violence and the quieter logistics of drug trafficking. Few figures from that era appear so consistently across such a range of significant events.
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Gerlando Alberti (Italian pronunciation: [dʒerˈlando alˈbɛrti]; 18 September 1927 – 1 February 2012), nicknamed 'u Paccarè ("the imperturbable one"), was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He belonged to the Porta Nuova family in Palermo headed by Giuseppe Calò.
Alberti was involved in numerous notorious Mafia events, such as the Ciaculli massacre in 1963, the Viale Lazio massacre in 1969, the disappearance of journalist Mauro De Mauro in 1970, and the killing of Chief Prosecutor Pietro Scaglione in 1971. He was one of the top mafiosi involved in cigarette smuggling and heroin trafficking in the 1970s. He once said of the Mafia: "Mafia! What is that?
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