Five life sentences asked in Falcone hit (2)

(ANSA) - Caltanissetta, May 27 - A prosecutor on Friday requested five life sentences in the second trial into the 1992 assassination of crusading anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and police officers Rocco Dicillo, Antonio Montinaro and Vito Schifani.
    Salvatore 'Salvino' Madonia, Cosimo Lo Nigro, Giorgio Pizzo, Lorenzo Tinnirello, and Vittorio Tutino played key roles in organizing the hit and acquiring the half-ton of explosives used to blow up Falcone and the other victims, prosecutors said.
    The explosives were placed in a culvert under the motorway between Palermo International Airport and the city of Palermo, at the exit to the town of Capaci. They were detonated by remote control, causing a blast so powerful it registered on local earthquake monitors. Mafia 'boss of bosses' Toto Riina was arrested in 1993 and convicted of ordering the hit. He is currently serving 12 life sentences for the Falcone assassination and a number of other crimes.
    Caltanissetta City Prosecutor Lia Sava said the State intends to keep investigating and to bring charges in a third trial over the Falcone assassination.
    "We will continue to seek the truth," she said. "We have a moral and juridical obligation to do so, because we know that surely not everything has been dealt with in the current proceedings".