Giovanni Falcone would have turned 83
on Wednesday if the anti-mafia prosecutor had not been murdered
by Cosa Nostra in the the Capaci bomb
attack in 1992.
The huge explosion n the A29 Trapani-Palermo highway also killed
Falcone's wife Francesca Morvillo and three members of his
security detail, Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo and Antonio
Montinaro, on May 23, 1992.
Falcone was 53 when he died.
Falcone's friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino was killed two
months later by another huge Cosa Nostra bomb.
The Giovanni Falcone Foundation, which is chaired by the
magistrate's sister Maria, has started a series of initiatives
to mark the upcoming 30th anniversary of his assassination on
what would have been his birthday.
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