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Giovanni Falcone

'Sono Cosa Nostra', a Documentary on Libera

Natasha Lardera

Directed by Simone Aleandri and Produced by Clipper Media with Rai Cinema, the documentary Sono Cosa Nostra celebrates the 20years ofLibera,anetworkof over 1600 associations...

Palermo Remembers Giovanni Falcone

Gero Salamone

The “No to Mafia” movement passed through the Sicilian capital. Starting with the involvement of schools. Over 40 thousand students out on the streets, some coming from Europe...

A Potted Guide to Italian Presidents

Judith Harris

It now appears certain that Giorgio Napolitano will resign as of Jan. 14, at the top of Italy’s current political agenda is election of his successor. Before this happens,...

International Hero: Giovanni Falcone from Memories to the Future

Rosario Pollicino

On December 1st The Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University organized a conference in commemoration of the Italian Judge Giovanni Falcone, who was killed in 1992 in...

Falcone Remembered Amid (Mostly Un)friendly Fire

Judith Harris

May 23 marks the 21st anniversary of the murder of the anti-Mafia Judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and their three bodyguards, blown up by 500 kilos of dynamite...

The President vs. the Magistrates

Judith Harris

From Palermo, prosecutor Antonio Ingroia is fighting to have those responsible for a sub rosa negotiation in 1992 between top Mafia bosses and representatives of the Italian state...

Remembering Two Fighters Against the Mafia: Falcone and Borsellino

Natasha Lardera

Two magistrates who had become leaders of the struggle against Cosa Nostra, were both murdered in 1992 by savage mafia bombs. To mark the twentieth anniversary, Professor John...

Massimo Ciancimino: Dynamite in the Garden of Justice

Judith Harris

The three years of Ciancimino's testimony in three separate Mafia trials risk being compromised

Giancarlo Caselli: Sciascia and the Palermo anti-Mafia Pool

Judith Harris

In the article "The Anti-Mafia Professionals", appeared on the national daily Il Corriere della Sera, Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia attacked Borsellino when he requested a...

Falcone and Borsellino Die Again

Judith Harris

On July 18, the day before the l8th anniversary of the murder of Judge Paolo Borsellino, the statues commemorating him and another emblematic victim of the Sicilian Mafia, Judge...

"I Remember" at the UN. A Docu-Film to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary from the Convention of Palermo

Umberto Lucentini*

The Screening of "Io Ricordo" (I Remember), a film that recounts the story of anti-Mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino as well as many other victims of the Mafia,...

Palermo, Sicily. A "Civic Escort" for Anti-Mafia Magistrates

Umberto Lucentini

A "civic escort" for judge Antonio Ingroia and for anti-mafia magistrates such as Nino Di Matteo and Sergio Lari will be set up by a group of citizens of the city of Palermo. The...

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