Giovanni Falcone
Giovanni Falcone was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo , he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career, culminating in the famous Maxi Trial in 19861987, he was killed by the Corleonesi Mafia in May 1992, on the A29 motorway near the town of Capaci.
Falcone was born in 1939 to a middleclass family in the Via Castrofilippo near the seaport district La Kalsa, a neighborhood of central Palermo that suffered extensive destruction by aerial attacks during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. His father, Arturo Falcone, the director of a provincial chemical laboratory, was married to Luisa Bentivegna. Giovanni had two older sisters, Anna and Maria. Falcones parents emphasised the importance of hard work, bravery and patriotism he later said they expected the maximum from him. At school Falcone would get into fights with larger children if he thought his friends were being picked on.
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