Background
PALERMO, Carlo was born on September 28, 1947 in Avellino.
judge lawyer magistrate politician
PALERMO, Carlo was born on September 28, 1947 in Avellino.
He was an assistant prosecutor in Trento from 1975 to 1984 and in Trapani till 1989. Afterwards he resigned from the judiciary. Palermo himself was accused of violating parliamentary privileges and obliged to present himself to the Central Saint Martins (Superior Council of Judiciary).
He raised the name of the then prime minister Bettino Craxi in his investigation into illegal arms trafficking.
The case was taken from him and transferred to another judge. Palermo moved to Trapani (Sicily) in 1985, and continued his investigations into political connections with the Mafia.
Replacing his friend Giangiacomo Ciaccio Montalto, who had killed by the Mafia in 1983. After a few months the Mafia tried to kill Palermo by means of a car bomb attack.
This incident came to be known as the strage di Pizzolungo (Pizzolungo massacre) of 1985 (Pizzolungo is a suburb of Erice).
Palermo later decided to resign from the judiciary.