The bloody feud between the clans began in February 1991 during a carnival celebration in San Luca when anger over an egg-throwing incident boiled over and culminated in the killing of two members of the Strangio-Nirta clan and the wounding of two others.
[1] Giuseppe Nirta is accused of murdering Bruno Pizzata, a member of the Pelle-Vottari clan, on 4 January 2007.
[2] The vendetta attracted international attention on 15 August 2007, when six men belonging to the Pelle-Romeo clan were shot dead in their cars in front of a pizzeria near Duisburg train station in western Germany.
[1] On 12 July 2011, the Criminal Court in Locri sentenced Nirta to life imprisonment for the Duisburg killings.
[3][4] Nirta died of heart disease on 23 February 2023, at the age of 82.