 Salamone and Bontade wanted to kill Corleonesi-boss Totò Riina at a meeting of the Sicilian Mafia Commission during the escalating conflict with the established Mafia-bosses in Palermo.However, the Corleonesi acted first and killed Bontade in April 1981, an event that set off the Second Mafia War.In 1982 Salamone suddenly re-appeared again in public.