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At L'Ora , De Mauro joined a group of crack investigative reporters.

From the mids to the s the left-leaning newspaper often hit the national spotlight for its investigations and denunciations about the ties between the Sicilian Mafia and corrupt politicians. He wrote on drug trafficking and the Sack of Palermo , the construction boom in the s and s that led to the destruction of the city's green belt and ancient villas.

He also published articles about the collusion between the Mafia and politics. In he was among the winners of the Premiolino , one of the most important Italian journalism awards, for his crime investigations. In , he was the first to publish a detailed map of the Sicilian Mafia, which was confirmed 22 years later by the Mafia pentito turncoat Tommaso Buscetta in his testimony to Judge Giovanni Falcone.

Upon being arrested, Allegra disclosed his membership and testified about Mafia activities. It was one of the first testimonies about the Mafia from within, but the document had been neglected until De Mauro republished it. After these and other revelations De Mauro became a target for the Mafia. The death sentence had only been temporarily suspended. In he investigated the mysterious death of Enrico Mattei , the powerful president of Italy's state-owned oil and gas conglomerate ENI who died in suspicious circumstances in a plane crash on October 27, During his controversial tenure of ENI, Mattei had made many enemies.

He tried to break the oligopoly of the ' Seven Sisters ' a term Mattei coined to refer to the dominant oil companies of the midth century [15] , and brokered an oil import deal with the Soviet Union in the middle of the Cold War over intense protests from NATO and the U.

National Security Council described Mattei as an irritation and an obstacle in a classified report from The French could not forgive him for doing business with the pro-independence movement in Algeria. In September , De Mauro was again investigating the case, upon request of the movie director Francesco Rosi for the movie Il caso Mattei The Mattei Affair , which would be released in Two days before his disappearance, De Mauro interviewed Graziano Verzotto , a Christian Democrat politician and former right-hand man of Mattei on Sicily. De Mauro was kidnapped on the evening of September 16, , while coming back home from work, in the via delle Magnolie in Palermo.

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Thousands of police and Carabinieri with helicopters and dogs combed Sicily in vain in search of the reporter. Over the years, the investigations into the disappearance of De Mauro by the Carabinieri and the police followed widely divergent leads. Years later, and in different circumstances, both were murdered by the Mafia.

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They focused on the lead of drug trafficking. According to them, the journalist would have been a victim of lupara bianca after discovering leads on drug trafficking by the Mafia between Sicily and the United States.

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The first inquiries of the police by Bruno Contrada and Boris Giuliano instead focused on the lead of De Mauro's investigations into the death of Mattei, prompted by the disappearance a few pages of notes and a tape with the last speech given by Mattei from De Mauro's office. According to police inspector Boris Giuliano there was "someone at the ministry in Rome that does not want to go to the bottom of the death of De Mauro. The disappearance of De Mauro remained a mystery and a matter for many speculations. He also claimed that De Mauro was killed because of his investigations into the death of Mattei.

Buscetta claimed that Mafia boss Stefano Bontade organized De Mauro's kidnap, because his investigations into the death of Mattei came very close to the Mafia, and Bontade's own role in the affair. However, the police, after a search, did not find the body. The pentito Francesco Marino Mannoia later explained why.

He had been ordered by Bontade in or to dig up several bodies at the bridge and dissolve them in acid. He was killed there and dumped in a pit. In , as a result of the declarations of Di Carlo, the judicial inquiry was reopened. The "inconvenient journalist" giornalista scomodo — as De Mauro had become known — was kidnapped and killed because the Mafia and their backers wanted to know his sources of confidential and potentially devastating information, public prosecutor Antonio Ingroia told the court in his closing speech in March The "preventive crime" might even have had other motives, such as other events that concerned the "friends in Rome" of the Corleonesi headed by Riina, as emerged from documents retrieved from the former mayor of Palermo, Vito Ciancimino.

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