page_title: Giovanni Spampinato
section_title: Context
hierarchical_section_title: Giovanni Spampinato / Context
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Duomo di San Giorgio di notte (Ragusa Ibla)
context_page_description: Giovanni Spampinato was an Italian investigative journalist for the Italian newspaper L'Ora in Ragusa, Province of Ragusa, Sicily, Italy, who brought to attention mafiaso Roberto Campria's connection to a murder in February 1972, before his own murder eight months later.
context_section_description: The Sicilian Mafia, also known as, Cosa Nostra ("Our Thing"), not only killed Spampinato but 12 other journalists as well. Cosimo Cristina (in Italian) was murdered in 1960 on railroad tracks by the mafia. Mauro De Mauro was disappeared in 1970 after uncovering details about the death of politician Enrico Mattei. Cristina, De Mauro and Spampinato worked also worked at L'Ora. This newspaper, under the leadership of Vittorio Nisticò, published anti-Mafia information. Other journalists killed by the Sicilian mafia were Giuseppe Impastato, murdered in 1978, Carmine "Mino" Pecorelli in 1979, Mario Francese in 1979, Giuseppe Fava in 1984, Giancarlo Siani in 1985, Mauro Rostagno (in Italian) in 1988, and Beppe Alfano (in Italian) in 1993. Those journalists were primarily working at the local level and were not nationally known.
caption: The city scape of Ragusa, Italy at night.
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