Posted on 07/19/2010 4:01:08 PM PDT by AtlasStalled
In Palermo, Sicily hundreds of Italians gathered today "to commemorate murdered anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino 18 years after his death" as reported by David Willey for BBC News: "He was killed by a car bomb in one the most brutal attacks on Italian justice. * * * After several trials, the truth about who organised the murder of Borsellino, and fellow judge Giovanni Falcone the same year, remains elusive."
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My wife and I were stationed in N Italy when this happened. It was crazy how they did it.
He knew there was a hit on him so he traveled in a caravan of three limos, no one knew which one he was in and it changed at random.
The mob placed bomb on the highway and detonated it when he eventually drove over it. Estimates at the time were two or three days to weeks the bomb may have been in place.
Someone had to manually trigger it, so 24hr surveillance also.
The bomb blew a hole in the road so big at first the Italy military thought it may have been a missile strike!
But it was just a huge bomb, big enough to destroy all three armor plated limos at once.
The immediate fall out from the killing was swift. A dozen judges with mafia cases before them retired, hundreds of cases were dismissed because of this one bombing.
It was a sad day in Italy when this happened.
The judge was the most successful anti-mafia judge in Italy. (The courts for these mafia trials were a three judge tribunal, but the head judge act like a prosecutor.) His murder put a chill on the Italian legal system that is still there today.
I’d love to help but I’ve been banned.
That was Falcone’s death. Borsellino was killed by a car bomb while stopping to visit his mother. Both were despicable crimes against very good men.
Distractions removed. Promoted from blogs to news/extended, in memory of these brave men. Carry on.
Thank you for the correction.
The Mafia killed more than one, that is for sure.
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