In retaliation for Di Matteo becoming an informant, the Mafia kidnapped his 12-year-old son, Giuseppe Di Matteo, on 23 November 1993, on the orders of Giovanni Brusca and Leoluca Bagarella.Jamieson, The Antimafia, p. 217 According to a later confession by one of the kidnappers, Gaspare Spatuzza, they dressed as police officers and told the boy he was being taken to see his father, who was at that time being kept in police protection on the Italian mainland. "Uccisero il piccolo Giuseppe Di Matteo", La Repubblica, January 16, 2012
