Giuseppe Graviano

Giuseppe Graviano
Mugshot of Giuseppe Graviano
Born	Giuseppe Graviano (1963-09-30) 30 September 1963 (age 53) Brancaccio, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	mafia boss
Criminal charge	Mafia
Criminal penalty	prison for life
Criminal status	imprisoned since 1994
Spouse(s)	Rosalia "Bibiana" Galdi
Children	2
Parent(s)	Michele Graviano
Allegiance	Sicilian Mafia, Brancaccio
Conviction(s)	Mafia

Giuseppe Graviano (Palermo, September 30, 1963) is an Italian mafioso from the Brancaccio quarter in Palermo. He is currently serving several life sentences.

The brothers Giuseppe and Filippo Graviano became members of the Sicilian Mafia Commission for the Brancaccio-Ciaculli mandamento, substituting Giuseppe Lucchese who was in prison. As such they were among the Mafia bosses held responsible for the murders of the Antimafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

After the arrest of Mafia boss Totò Riina in January 1993, the remaining bosses, among them Giuseppe Graviano, Matteo Messina Denaro, Giovanni Brusca, Leoluca Bagarella, Antonino Gioè and Gioacchino La Barbera came together a few times (often in the Santa Flavia area in Bagheria, on an estate owned by the mafioso Leonardo Greco). They decided on a strategy to force the Italian state to retreat. That resulted in a series of bomb attacks in 1993 in the Via dei Georgofili in Florence, in Via Palestro in Milan and in the Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano and Via San Teodoro in Rome, which left 10 people dead and 93 injured as well as damage to centres of cultural heritage such as the Uffizi Gallery.

The Graviano brothers, including the eldest one Benedetto Graviano were seen as the organizers of the operation, in particular to select the men who would carry out the bombings. Giuseppe and Filippo Graviano each received a life sentence for the bombings.