Terrorist Campaign
The explosion was part of a series of terrorist attacks, on May 27, 1993 a bomb under the Torre dei Pulci killed five people: Fabrizio Nencioni, wife Angelamaria; their daughters; 9-year-old Nadia and two-month-old Caterina, and Dario Capolicchio, aged 20. 33 people were injured. Attacks on art galleries and churches left 10 dead with many injured, and caused outrage among Italians. At least one high ranking investigator believed most of those who carried out murders for Cosa Nostra answered solely to Bagarella, and that consequently Bagarella actually welded more power than Bernardo Provenzano who was Rimma's formal successor.
Provenzano protested about the terrorist attacks, but Bagarella responded sarcastically, telling him to wear a sign saying "I don't have anything to do with the massacres". Bagarella stopped ordering murders some time before his own capture, apparently due to the suicide of his wife. She had become depressed about her inability to have children, believing it to be a punishment for the kidnapping and murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo.
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