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- Giovanni Falcone is a 1993 Italian biographical drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Ferrara. It is based on real life events of the prosecuting magistrate Giovanni Falcone who was killed by mafia in 1992.
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Giovanni Falcone (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni falˈkoːne]; 18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. [1] [2] From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia.
- Giovanni Falcone’s Early Life in Sicily
- Living in Secrecy
- The Maxi Trial
- The Assassination of Giovanni Falcone
Born into a poor district of Palermo, Sicily, Giovanni Falcone had a childhood marred with horrors perpetrated by the Mafia — which helped encourage his drive to thwart these criminals as an adult. Falcone studiedlaw at the University of Palermo and graduated in 1961. He practiced law for just three years before he became a judge in 1964. Assigned ...
Giovanni Falcone executed all his work for the prosecution office from a bazooka-proof bunker underneath the city’s law courts. His workspace was surrounded by security footage of the halls and rooms around his office. His home reflected the same level of vigilance and wherever Falcone went, he was escorted by a barrage of armored vehicles. This le...
The Maxi Trial is the most important and effective trial ever brought against the Sicilian Mafiaand is widely regarded as one of the biggest trials in history. It was the first time that the Cosa Nostra’s existence was judicially confirmed, and the significance of this acknowledgment was insurmountable. A total of 474 Mafiosi were indicted for a wi...
Giovanni Falcone’s work both in Sicily and outside of Sicily began to severely frustrate the mob. In June 1989, a sack filled with dynamite was discovered by police near a beach house that Falcone rented out, but for some reason, the bomb never detonated. Following this assassination attempt, Falcone remarked to a colleague, “My life is mapped out:...
- Bernadette Deron
Apr 11, 2017 · Along with colleague and friend Paolo Borsellino — who met his death through a Mafia attack only two months into the prosecution — Giovanni Falcone were to go down in our history as Italian heroes in the war against the Mafia. Giovanni Falcone became the enemy of the most powerful and feared people at the time.
- Don Tano
Judge Falcone may not have defeated the Sicilian Mafia during his lifetime, but he left a legacy of standing for justice—no matter what the cost. Today, Judge Falcone’s legacy lives on through...
Jul 26, 2006 · Falcone won a spectacular array of convictions against the mob before he was exterminated, and his story is the subject of a superb new documentary, Excellent Cadavers, based on the (equally...
On May 23, 1992 in Sicily, Italy; Italy's most famous anti-mafia judge, Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards are killed by the Corleonesi clan of Cosa Nostra with a half-ton bomb. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino would be murdered less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the prosecution of the Italian mafia.
The lives of Palermo prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino began and ended in Sicily's capital, where the two were born. Both men spent their early years in the same neighborhood and although many of their childhood friends grew up to become Mafia characters, they both fought on the other side of the war as prosecuting magistrates.
