Paolo Borsellino

...football club Sharks Palermo and rugby football club Palermo Rugby 2005. It is named after Palermo magistrate and Mafia victim Paolo Borsellino. The venue, originally thought as a velodrome which could also serve as a multi-use stadium,...

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Paolo Borsellino (January 19, 1940 - July 19, 1992) was an Italian anti-Mafia magistrate who was killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, less than two months after his fellow anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone had been killed by the...

In this article: Mafia, Giovanni Falcone, Palermo, Rocco Chinnici, Palermo International Airport, Antonino Caponnetto, Silvio Berlusconi, and Sicily

...secret negotiations were alleged to have taken place, the Mafia killed two senior anti-Mob magistrates, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, in bomb attacks. Authorities at the time feared more attacks but in 1993 Riina was arrested after...

In this article: Mafia, Italy, Antonio Di Pietro, Allegation, Italy of Values, and Giovanni Falcone

...secret negotiations were alleged to have taken place, the Mafia killed two senior anti-mob magistrates, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in bomb attacks. ARREST OF "BOSS OF BOSSES" ALTERED SCENARIO Authorities at the time feared more...

In this article: Mafia, Italy, Giovanni Falcone, Antonio Di Pietro, Allegation, and Italy of Values

...table," Castaldi said. After bomb blasts in Sicily in 1992 killed two leading anti-Mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Italy stiffened its laws against top mobsters. One measure limited prison visits to family...

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...to Torino, politicians, church leaders and youth groups gather to mark the July 19, 1992, assassination of anti-Mob magistrate Paolo Borsellino, who was killed along with five bodyguards in a meticulously planned car-bombing outside his...

In this article: Mafia, Palermo, Giovanni Falcone, Milan, Italy, Corleone, and Florence

...of Marco Turco's 2005 documentary Excellent Cadavers is enough to put the chill into you. Thank you Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino and all those who work so hard trying to build a better Italy but in vain. Wake up Italy. more...

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...to think about becoming a state witness (pentito) in December 1991. Mutolo decided to talk in early May 1992, he insisted to see Paolo Borsellino after learning that Giovanni Falcone was unavailable (Falcone ceased to be a magistrate after he...

In this article: Mafia, Giovanni Falcone, Salvo Lima, Heroin, Palermo, Salvatore Riina, and Francesco Marino Mannoia

The killing of the fearless Sicilian magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino is the great watershed in relations between the Italian state and Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mob. Before those killings, accommodation was the rule. The...

In this article: Mafia, Giovanni Falcone, Palermo, Giulio Andreotti, Salvo Lima, Sicily, and Lima

...and drug rehabilitation centers. One of the most vocal opponents of the Facebook pages is Rita Borsellino, sister of magistrate Paolo Borsellino who was killed by a mafia car bomb in 1993. The bombing was ordered by Riina and...

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