The policeman who stopped Lucky Luciano in Rome turns 100

(ANSA) – ROME, JAN 25 – The FBI staff in Rome, together with the Deputy Chief of Police, Prefect Vittorio Rizzi, and the Rome Police Commissioner, Mario Della Cioppa, today celebrated Vincenzo Caracciolo, the centenary policeman who stopped in Rome Lucky Luciano.

Charles Luciano, known as Lucky, born in 1897 in Lercara Friddi, in the province of Palermo, emigrated to the United States at just eight years old, is considered the father of American organized crime and included by Time Magazine among the twenty most influential people of the twentieth century. The pride in the stories of Vincenzo who also this morning, in front of the cake with the number 100, recalled the episode of when he stopped him in Rome, led him to the police station where he was notified of the street sheet.

Vincenzo, born in Gesualdo in the province of Avellino on January 23, 1922, was an agent of the Corps of Public Security Agents who, after having worked in various offices of the Rome Police Headquarters, had landed in the good costume of the prestigious Flying Squad. At 38, Vincenzo Caracciolo left the Police to become parliamentary assistant, in charge of the security of the Deputies, never forgetting the start of his career as a policeman in the aftermath of the Second World War “using more heart than brain”, with an always correct approach even towards the most dangerous criminals, according to that policy of proximity and proximity, which will soon become the slogan and the inspiring principle of the work of the State Police. (HANDLE).

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