Andrea Manciaracina

Who is Andrea Manciaracina?

Andrea Manciaracina is a member of Sicilian Mafia. His name is sometimes spelled as Mangiaracina.

Manciaracina was born in Mazara del Vallo in the province of Trapani. He was initiated in Cosa Nostra in 1985 or 1986. In 1992, after the arrest of Mariano Agate, he became "reggente" of the "mandamento" of Mazara del Vallo, a position he shared with Vincenzo Sinacori.

According to Sinacori, who became a pentito in 1996 and started to collaborate with Italian justice, it had been Cosa Nostra boss Totò Riina who favoured the nomination of Manciaracina. His father Vito Manciaracina had been a front man for one of Riina’s companies. Father and son Manciaracina were among the few who knew how to reach the fugitive Riina.

Manciaracina’s name was mentioned in the trial against Giulio Andreotti. The sevenfold Prime Minister of Italy stood accused of collusion with Cosa Nostra. Investigators found that Andreotti, at the time minister of Foreign Affairs, had met Manciaracina at a meeting in Hotel Hopps in Mazara del Vallo on August 19, 1985, and held a private conversation.