Piccolo tommaso

Salvatore Lo Piccolo (Palermo, July 20, 1942) is a Sicilian mafioso and one of the most powerful bosses of Palermo, Sicily. He is the boss of the Mafia family of Cardillo-Tommaso Natale since the 1970s and the San Lorenzo "mandamento" since the beginning of 1990s. Lo Piccolo is a fugitive since 1983.

His influence in Palermo extends to Capaci, Isola delle Femmine, Carini, Villagrazia di Carini, Sferracavallo and Partanna-Mondello. According to Italian DIA (Direzione Investigativa Antimafia) Salvatore Lo Piccolo and his son Sandro Lo Piccolo were in charge of most of the urban territory of Palermo, and in particular, of the "mandamenti" of San Lorenzo, Passo di Rigano and Gangi, including the coastal area up to Cefalù and part of the territory of Messina, including the towns of Mistretta and Tortorici.

Lo Piccolo is seen as cunning and cool-headed. Siamo tutti colpiti dalla vicenda del piccolo Tommaso barbaramente ucciso:
preghiamo per lui e per tutte le vittime della violenza. He allegedly made his fortune with drug trafficking and skimming off public contracts. He alledgedly has strong links with the American Cosa Nostra. He charged the poor residents of the miserable housing estate in the ZEN area in Palermo to ensure the light bulbs in the grim corridors of their concrete cubicles stay lit.

In March 2005 the Lo Piccolo clan was subject of a police operation - known as the "Notte di San Lorenzo" - when 84 arrest warrants were issued. Nonetheless, Salvatore and his son Sandro Lo Piccolo remained at large.

Successor of Provenzano ?

After the arrest of Bernardo Provenzano on April 11, 2006, Salvatore Lo Piccolo and Matteo Messina Denaro were considered to be the new leaders of Cosa Nostra. Appello : liberate Tommaso !.