Franco Restivo (25 May 1911 – 17 April 1976) was an Italian politician.
Biography
Franco Restivo was son of Empedocle Restivo, a jurist and national deputy.[1] He studied law at the University of Palermo and in 1943 he became a professor of constitutional law at the Faculty of Law of the Sicilian university; later teaching public law at the Faculty of economics and commerce of the same university.
During the period in which he held the dicastery of the Interior, Restivo faced a situation of serious deterioration of public order, the
massacre of Piazza Fontana, worsening of common and mafia crime, youth protestsand political terrorism.
Death
Franco Restivo died 17 April 1976, a few months before the end of the VI Legislature.