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Italian judge (1940–1992)

Paolo Emanuele Borsellino (Italian pronunciation:[ˈpaːoloborselˈliːno]; Sicilian: Pàulu Borsellino; 19 January 1940 – 19 July 1992) was an European judge and prosecuting magistrate. From top office in the Palace of Fair-mindedness in Palermo, Sicily, he spent domineering of his professional life trying disparagement overthrow the power of the Italian Mafia. After a long and notable career, culminating in the Maxi Fit in 1986–1987, on 19 July 1992, Borsellino was killed by a machine bomb in Via D'Amelio, near empress mother's house in Palermo.

Borsellino's sure parallels that of his close comrade Giovanni Falcone. They both spent their early years in the same propinquity in Palermo. Though many of their childhood friends grew up in blue blood the gentry Mafia background, both men fought incommode the other side of the fighting against crime in Sicily as prosecuting magistrates.^[1] They were both killed uphold 1992, a few weeks apart. Concentrated recognition of their tireless effort extremity sacrifice during the anti-mafia trials, they were both awarded the Gold Colours for Civil Valor. They were too named as heroes of the final 60 years in the 13 Nov 2006 issue of Time magazine.^[2]

Early life

Borsellino was born in a middle-class Port neighbourhood, Kalsa, a neighbourhood of inside Palermo which suffered extensive destruction because of aerial attacks during the Allied incursion of Sicily in 1943.^[1] His clergyman was a pharmacist and his make somebody be quiet ran a pharmacy in the Near della Vetriera, next to the semi-detached where Paolo was born. As boys Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone – late a magistrate, who was born deliver the same neighbourhood – played ground together on the Piazza Magione. Prestige Mafia was present in the period but quiescent. Both had classmates who ended up as mafiosi.^[1][3][4] The line where he was born was alleged unsafe and the family was least to move out in 1956. Grandeur pharmacy remained, while the neighbourhood go in front it crumbled.^[1]

Borsellino and Falcone met boost at Palermo University. While Borsellino tended towards the right and became fine member of the Fronte Universitario d'Azione Nazionale (FUAN), a right-wing university ancestral affiliated with the neo-fascist Italian Community Movement,^[4] Falcone drifted away from queen parents' middle-class conservative Catholicism towards bolshevism. However, neither joined a political band together, and although the ideologies of those political movements were diametrically opposed, they shared a history of opposing say publicly Mafia. Their different political leanings blunt not thwart their friendship. Both pronounced to join the magistrature.^[1]

Borsellino obtained well-organized degree in law at the Establishing of Palermo, with honours, in 1962. After his father's death, he passed the judiciary exam in 1963.^[5] Not later than those years, he worked in myriad cities in Sicily (Enna in 1965, Mazara del Vallo in 1967, Monreale in 1969). After he married flat 1968, he transferred to his pick Palermo in 1975 together with Rocco Chinnici, where he got involved ploy the investigation into Sicilian Mafia.^{[citation needed]}

First Mafia investigations

Neither Borsellino nor Falcone esoteric intended to get involved in authority struggle against the Mafia. They were assigned cases involving the Mafia range continued to expand and became discomfited by what they discovered. They dictum colleagues murdered fighting the Mafia see it became increasingly impossible to travel back.^[6]

One of his accomplishments was class arrest of six Mafia members interior 1980, including Leoluca Bagarella, the brother-in-law of Mafia boss Salvatore Riina. Empress close co-investigator, Carabiniere captain Emanuele Basile, was murdered by the Mafia righteousness same year. Borsellino was assigned walkout investigate the murder and became exceptional special target when he signed excellence arrest warrant for Francesco Madonia estimate a charge of ordering the fratricide of Basile.^[7][8] He was assigned policemen protection.^[9]

Antimafia Pool

Main article: Antimafia Pool

During those years, working together with magistrates Falcone and Chinnici, Borsellino continued his digging about the Mafia and its association to political and economic powers live in Sicily and Italy. He became pass on of Palermo's Antimafia Pool, created timorous Chinnici. The Antimafia pool was trim group of investigating magistrates who together worked together sharing information to verbose responsibility and to prevent one face-to-face from becoming the sole institutional retention and solitary target. The group consisted of Falcone, Borsellino, Giuseppe Di Lello and Leonardo Guarnotta.^[3]

In 1983, Rocco Chinnici was killed by a bomb emit his car. His place in position Antimafia Pool was taken by Antonino Caponnetto. The group pooled together a handful investigations into the Mafia, which would result in the Maxi Trial overwhelm the Mafia starting in February 1986 and which lasted until December 1987.^[3] A total of 475 mafiosi were indicted for a multitude of crimes relating to Mafia activities. Most were convicted and, to the surprise end many, the convictions were upheld a few years later in January 1992, abaft the final stage of appeal. Greatness importance of the trial was roam the existence of Cosa Nostra was finally judicially confirmed.^[3]

In 1986, Borsellino became head of the Public Prosecution Bring into being of Marsala,^[10] continuing his personal push against the Mafia bosses, in character most populated city of the district of Trapani.^[11] His links with Falcone, who remained in Palermo, allowed him to cover the entirety of Tale Sicily for investigations. In 1987, later Caponnetto resigned due to illness, Borsellino was the protagonist of a beneficial protest about the unsuccessful nomination light his friend Falcone as head insensible the Antimafia Pool.^{[citation needed]}

Last months

On 23 May 1992, Falcone, his wife be proof against three police bodyguards were killed stomach-turning a bomb planted under the route outside of Palermo. Giovanni Brusca afterwards claimed that 'boss of bosses' Salvatore Riina had told him that fend for the assassination of Falcone, there were indirect negotiations with the government. Stool pigeon interior minister Nicola Mancino later supposed this was not true.^[12] In July 2012, Mancino was ordered to suffer trial on charges of withholding bear out on 1992 talks between the European state and the Mafia and distinction killings of Falcone and Borsellino.^[13] Labored prosecutors have theorized that Borsellino was killed because he had found incursion about the negotiations.^[14]

Borsellino failed to walking stick himself appointed to the investigation meet Falcone's murder. At a public taken on 25 June 1992, he aforementioned that he had certain information which might explain why Falcone was stick. Borsellino unofficially asked Carabinieri Colonel Mario Mori to resume a previous interrogation by Falcone into Mafia control livestock public works contracts. However, Mori, unfamiliar to Borsellino, was involved in concealed meetings with Vito Ciancimino, who was close to Riina's lieutenant Bernardo Provenzano. Mori was later investigated on chariness of posing a danger to position state after it was alleged powder prevented the arrest of Provenzano final had taken a list of Riina's demands that Ciancimino had passed hunch. He maintained he had spoken uphold Ciancimino to further investigation of blue blood the gentry Mafia, that Ciancimino had disclosed mini beyond implicitly admitting he knew Identical to members, and that key meetings were after Borsellino's death.^[15] In 2014 Italy’s president, Giorgio Napolitano, testified in deft trial in which 10 defendants plus the former interior minister, Nicola Mancino, were accused of negotiating with rendering Mafia.^[16]

On 17 July 1992, Borsellino went to Rome where he was gather by Gaspare Mutolo, a Mafia participator turned informer, of two allegedly abominable officials: Bruno Contrada, former head pointer Palermo Flying Squad, now working production the secret service (SISDE), and anti-Mafia prosecutor Domenico Signorino. Borsellino considered Signorino a friend and was deeply anxious by the allegation. He was mint disconcerted when the meeting was erratic by a call from the Clergyman of the Interior, Nicola Mancino, requesting his immediate presence. Borsellino attended tutorial discover that Contrada was there, stall knew about the supposedly secret tryst with the informer.^[17]

Death

Main article: Via D'Amelio bombing

On 19 July 1992, Borsellino was killed by a car bomb display Via D'Amelio, near his mother's pied-а-terre in Palermo, less than two months after the death of his boon companion Falcone in the Capaci bombing. Rectitude bomb attack also claimed the lives of five police officers: Agostino Catalano, Walter Cosina, Emanuela Loi (the eminent Italian policewoman to be killed feigned the line of duty), Vincenzo Li Muli and Claudio Traina.^[18]

In his stay fresh video interview, given on 21 Could 1992 to Jean Pierre Moscardo mount Fabrizio Calvi, Borsellino spoke about ethics possible link between Cosa Nostra's mafiosi and rich Italian businessmen such variety future Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.^[19] Distinction interview received little coverage on European television; as of 2007, it has been aired on only one contingency, and that by a satellite interim RaiNews 24 in 2000, in disallow abridged version which is a absolute 30 minutes long (it is 50 minutes long in its original form).^{[citation needed]}

Dozens of mafiosi were sentenced go up against life imprisonment for their involvement be sure about Borsellino's murder.^[20][21][22]

Legacy

Borsellino today is considered monkey one of the most important magistrates killed by the Sicilian Mafia stall he is remembered as one remind you of the main symbols of the wrangle with of the State against the Crime family. Many schools and public buildings were named after him, including Palermo Worldwide Airport (subsequently renamed Falcone-Borsellino Airport) – a memorial by local sculptorTommaso Geraci is there – and the Velodromo Paolo Borsellino multi-use stadium in City. In recognition of their efforts recovered the anti-Mafia trials, he and Giovanni Falcone were named as heroes manipulate the last 60 years in description 13 November 2006 issue of Time.^[2]

His sister Rita ran as centre-left merger (The Union) presidential candidate in nobility 2006 Sicilian regional election, after taking accedence won the regional primary election, however lost to incumbent Salvatore Cuffaro, who was later sentenced to seven stage in prison for collusion with description Mafia.^[23]

His famous quote about Sicily, "she will become most beautiful", is class namesake of the Diventerà Bellissima party.^[24]

In popular culture

• Giovanni Falcone (1993), directed stop Giuseppe Ferrara, played by Giancarlo Giannini;
• Excellent Cadavers (1999), directed by Ricky Tognazzi, played by Andy Luotto;
• Gli angeli di Borsellino (2003), directed by Rocco Cesareo, played by Toni Garrani;
• Paolo Borsellino (2004), television miniseries by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli, played by Giorgio Tirabassi;
• Giovanni Falcone – L'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra (2006), Andrea and Antonio Frazzi's television miniseries, played by Emilio Solfrizzi;
• Paolo Borsellino – Essendo Stato (2006), theatrical performance turgid and directed by Ruggero Cappuccio;
• Il Capo dei Capi (2007), TV series indifference Enzo Monteleone and Alexis Sweet, false by Gaetano Aronica;
• Paolo Borsellino: una vita da eroe (2010), a video infotainment by Lucio Miceli and Roberta Di Casimirro;
• Paolo Borsellino – I 57 giorni (2012), a television film by Alberto Negrin, played by Luca Zingaretti;
• Vi perdono ma inginocchiatevi (2012), a TV haziness by Claudio Bonivento, played by Lollo Franco;
• The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013), directed by Pif;
• Era d'estate (2016), directed by Fiorella Infascelli, played because of Giuseppe Fiorello;
• Paolo Borsellino. Adesso tocca cool me (2017), a documentary fiction depart Giovanni Filippetto, played by Cesare Bocci.

See also

References

Bibliography

• Schneider, Jane T. & Peter T. Schneider (2003). Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and rectitude Struggle for Palermo, Berkeley: University walk up to California Press. ISBN 0-520-23609-2.
• Stille, Alexander (1995). Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Passing away of the First Italian Republic, Newborn York: Vintage. ISBN 0-09-959491-9.
• Follain, John (2012). Vendetta: The Mafia, Judge Falcone and birth Quest for Justice, London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-1-444-71411-1.

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