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Raffaele Cutolo | |
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Born | Ottaviano, Kingdom of Italy | 4 November 1941
Died | 17 February 2021 (aged 79) Parma, Italy |
Nationality | Italian |
Other names | 'o Professore ("the professor") |
Occupation | Founder of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata |
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Criminal status | Deceased |
Relatives | Rosetta Cutolo (sister) |
Criminal charge | Murder |
Penalty | Life imprisonment |
Raffaele Cutolo (Italian: [raffaˈɛːle ˈkuːtolo]; 4 November 1941 – 17 February 2021) was an Italian crime boss and leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO), an organisation he built to renew the Camorra. Cutolo had a variety of nicknames including 'o Vangelo ("the gospel"), 'o Princepe ("the prince"), 'o Professore ("the professor") and 'o Monaco ("the monk").[1] Apart from 18 months on the run, Cutolo lived entirely in maximum-security prisons or psychiatric prisons after 1963.[2] At the time of his death he was serving multiple life sentences for murder.