Nicola Capria

Nicola Capria
Nicola Capria
Minister for the Coordination of Civil Protection
	In office; 12 April 1991 – 28 June 1992
Prime Minister	Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by	Vito Lattanzio
Succeeded by	Ferdinando Facchiano
Minister of Tourism and Entertainment
	In office; 1 August 1986 – 17 April 1987
Prime Minister	Bettino Craxi
Preceded by	Lelio Lagorio
Succeeded by	Mario Di Lazzaro
Minister of Foreign Trade
	In office; 28 June 1981 – 1 August 1986
Prime Minister	Giovanni Spadolini ; Amintore Fanfani ; Bettino Craxi
Preceded by	Enrico Manca
Succeeded by	Rino Formica
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 5 July 1976 – 14 April 1994
Personal details
Born	6 November 1932; Rosarno, Calabria, Italy
Died	31 January 2009 (aged 76); Rome, Lazio, Italy
Political party	PSI
Profession	Politician, lawyer

Nicola Capria (6 November 1932 – 31 January 2009) was an Italian politician, member of the Italian Socialist Party.

He was Deputy from 1976 to 1994 and served also as Minister several times from 1986 to 1992 in the governments led by Spadolini, Fanfani, Craxi and Andreotti.

He was also city councilor in Messina, Vice-president of the Sicily Region, regional deputy to the Sicilian Regional Assembly and regional secretary of the Sicilian PSI.

During the 1991–1993 eruption of Mount Etna, as Italy's Minister of Civil Protection, Capria oversaw national emergency efforts and commented on Operation Hot Rock, describing the attempt to divert lava from the town of Zafferana Etnea as an "uneven struggle" against a powerful "monster" of nature.^[1]

He resigned as parliamentary leader of the PSI when, on 12 January 1994, the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Messina notified him of a guarantee notice in the context of investigations into the Sirap affair for external competition in mafia association. From that moment, although fulfilled with a full formula, because the fact does not exist, he definitively closed all relations with the world of politics.^[2]

He died in Rome on 31 January 2009, at the age of 79.

References

^ Cowell, Alan (25 April 1992). "It's Plug Up Mt. Etna or Go the Way of Pompeii". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
^ IL PSI A MESSINA ERA LUI: E' MORTO NICOLA CAPRIA. NEL 1994 (PIENA TANGENTOPOLI) CHIUSE LA SUA CARRIERA

External links

Media related to Nicola Capria at Wikimedia Commons

[1] Cowell, Alan (25 April 1992). "It's Plug Up Mt. Etna or Go the Way of Pompeii". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 September 2025.

[2] IL PSI A MESSINA ERA LUI: E' MORTO NICOLA CAPRIA. NEL 1994 (PIENA TANGENTOPOLI) CHIUSE LA SUA CARRIERA

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