Giovanni Falcone (May 18, 1939 – May 23, 1992)
Written by admin on 25 May, 2009 – 11:17 am -
Saturday marked the 17th anniversary of the death of the the Italian antimafia magistrate who specialised in prosecuting the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia. He was killed in la strage di Capaci (near the town of Capaci, Sicily) along with his wife and three bodyguards, when the motorway on which he was travelling was blown up using 350kg of explosives. His good friend Paolo Borsellino, who was also an antimafia magistrate, was killed by a car bomb less than two months later in Palermo.
Both magistrates received the Medaglia d’oro al valorcivile, Golden medal for civil valour, and in 2006 Time Magazine honoured them by naming them as heroes of the last 60 years. In 2007, at the Festival di Sanremo (Sanremo Music Festival), Fabrizio Moro wrote about the two men with his winning entry Pensa.
An excellent TV film was recently broadcast by Rai. It follows Falcone’s life from the start of his mafia investigations in 1980, up to his assassination.
Photo source – Biografia: vita e morte di Giovanni Falcone
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