Placido Rizzotto

Placido Rizzotto (; 2 January 1914 – 10 March 1948) was an Italian partisan, socialist peasant and trade union leader from Corleone, who was kidnapped and murdered by Sicilian Mafia boss Luciano Leggio on 10 March 1948. Before he was killed, Rizzotto was engaged in activism with farm laborers, trying to help them take over unfarmed land on large estates in the area. A 12-year-old shepherd, Giuseppe Letizia, witnessed Rizzotto's murder and was killed the following day with a lethal injection, made by Michele Navarra, a qualified physician and Mafia doctor. In the 1960s, Leggio was acquitted twice of Rizzotto's murder due to lack of evidence. On 16 March 2012, the Council of Ministers announced a State Funeral would be held for Rizzotto, which took place in Corleone on 24 May 2012, attended by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.

A biopic of Placido Rizzotto was made by Pasquale Scimeca, released in 2000.