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Theresa Maggio

Sicily

A thousand candles in his memory at Chiesa di San Domenico

May 23, 2016
Tags: Giovanni Falcone, mafia, antimafia, murder, collusion, state, alone, vulnerable, false antimafia
The scene today in Palermo's Church of San Domenico where Giovanni Falcone's body is buried.
Thousands of students from all over Italy converged on Palermo to commemorate the death, by murder, of anti Mafia Judge Giovanni Falcone who gave his life in the fight against the Mafia. He was killed in Capaci on the road from the airport, with his wife and police escort, by a bomb planted on  Read More 
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Tomorrow is the 24th anniversary of the murder of Giovanni Falcone

May 22, 2016
Tags: Giovanni Falcone, mafia, antimafia, murder, collusion, state, alone, vulnerable, false antimafia
Giovanni Falcone gave his life fighting the Mafia.
Rest in Peace.
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Mafia stronghold given to scouts today

June 23, 2015
Tags: altarello di baida, Palermo, mafia, scouts, Italy, confiscated, andreotti, matarella, assassination, collusion, state, pre-Riina
Judge Giovanni Falcone talking outside the heavy metal gate to the mafia compound in Altarello di Baida in 1980
The first property Judge Giovanni Falcone confiscated from the mafia in 1980 will be given officially to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of Italy today, although they have been camping and working here for years. The rual compound also contains a qanat and a sirocco room which I visited with Geologist Dr. Pietro Todaro. The  Read More 
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