Giovanni Falcone Biography

The monstrous of the murder of a man who sacrificed his life for the sake of struggle with the mafia was deeply shocked by Italy and Sicilian society, which rose to say no goat's Nastra. Herful olive trees were torn from roots. A hundred meters of the highway was damaged, and a funnel was formed at the site of the explosion with a depth of more than 8 meters. At the top of the funnel was the white car of Judge Falcone, severely damaged by the explosive, the weight of which was more than kg.

Four more people were killed with him: his wife Francesca Morvilo, who was a member of the Palermo appeal, and three bodyguards. The explosion, except for the judge’s car, damaged three more cars: two security cars and the fourth, which was traveling along the same section of the highway, having nothing to do with escort. Several dozen people were injured in varying severity.

This attack occurred 10 years after another murder shocking the whole country - General Carlo Alberto Dalla Kesz, Deputy Commander of the Carabinier Corps and Prefect Palermo, who fought with the mafia. Due to his uncompromising struggle against crime, Judge Falcone was very popular in Italy. I know that they will end only with my death - natural or not. ” This phrase, uttered by Giovanni Falcone in one of the interviews in the year, left no doubt about his fears to be a NOSTOST goat once killed.

Coffins with the bodies of Falcone, born in Palermo in the year, as well as those who died with him, were exhibited for farewell to the chapel in the court building. Tens of thousands of inhabitants came to say goodbye to them. And on July 19, the mafia inflicted a new blow.

As a result of the explosion of the mined car, Paolo Borselino, also a judge and the closest associate of Falcone, died. The murder of Falcone and Borselino occurred at a time when Italy was experiencing a deep political and institutional crisis. Since April 25, the country was without the head of state. The temporarily acting President Giovanni Spadolini and other politicians who came to pay tribute to Judge Falcone and other victims, were Ostvostan residents of Palermo, irritated the inability of the Italian state to protect their best fighter with the mafia.

The death of Judge Falcone acted as a detonator in a Sicilian society, which woke up to say no goat to the Nostra, whose power was such that at that time she had accomplices at the very top of the state. The day of mourning was declared in Palermo, and the trade unions called for an hourly universal strike during the funeral of Falcon. His capture marked the end of a long, more than twenty -year -old, impressive criminal “career”.

His terrible track record - he personally committed more than forty murders and was suspected of ordering hundreds of others - he cost him the nickname "Wild". Super -burning and uncontrollable - his motto was “obey or die” - this fierce godfather of the mafia was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died of cancer in a year in a prison in Parma. The one who directly pressed the remote control button of the remote control, which blew up the bomb under the judge’s car, was Giovanni Bruska, one of the closest assistants to Toto Riina.

He will be arrested four years after the attack, on May 20. At the time of arrest, this bloodthirsty boss of the Sicilian mafia was already sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia. It was he who abducted and strangled his own hands in the year, and then dissolved the body of the baby Giuseppe Di Matteo, the summer son of the Mafioso, in the acid of the baby. Almost thirty years after the murder of Judge Falcone, the parole of Giovanni Brusco caused a real shock in Italy.

This news appeared in the first pages of all newspapers.