01 Jun 21
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57317220
Sicilian Mafia: Anger as 'people slayer' Giovanni Brusca freed
Sicilian Mafia boss Giovanni Brusca, whose grisly crimes include having a child's body dissolved in acid, has been released from prison.
Dubbed the "people slayer", Brusca has confessed to his role in over 100 killings, including the assassination of Italy's top anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone.
But Brusca became an informant, helping prosecutors hunt down fellow mobsters.
His release after 25 years in jail has outraged his victims' relatives.
He will now be on parole for four years.
Who is Giovanni Brusca?
Brusca, now 64, was a key figure within the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia group.
In 1992, he detonated the bomb that killed Italy's leading anti-Mafia investigator, judge Giovanni Falcone, in one of the country's most infamous murder cases.
Mr Falcone's wife and three bodyguards were also killed in the attack, when Brusca set off half a tonne of explosives under the road near Palermo they were driving along.
The attack, followed two months later by the killing of Mr Falcone's colleague Paolo Borsellino, rocked Italy and resulted in tough new anti-Mafia laws.
01 Jun 21
@vivify saidI thought you supported this kind of thing and was against corporal punishment. In a normal right thinking society this man should justifiably be executed after his first murder.... Oh no sorry, beaten till he was half dead and then executed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57317220
Sicilian Mafia: Anger as 'people slayer' Giovanni Brusca freed
Sicilian Mafia boss Giovanni Brusca, whose grisly crimes include having a child's body dissolved in acid, has been released from prison.
Dubbed the "people slayer", Brusca has confessed to his role in over 100 killings, including the assassinatio ...[text shortened]... alcone's colleague Paolo Borsellino, rocked Italy and resulted in tough new anti-Mafia laws.
01 Jun 21
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@vivify said"Cosa Nostra" is Italian-American organized crime. This guy sounds like traditional Mafia.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57317220
Sicilian Mafia: Anger as 'people slayer' Giovanni Brusca freed
Sicilian Mafia boss Giovanni Brusca, whose grisly crimes include having a child's body dissolved in acid, has been released from prison.
Dubbed the "people slayer", Brusca has confessed to his role in over 100 killings, including the assassinatio ...[text shortened]... alcone's colleague Paolo Borsellino, rocked Italy and resulted in tough new anti-Mafia laws.
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His name was probably translated. Maybe it sounds cooler in Italian.
01 Jun 21
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@earl-of-trumps saidOh yeah locals are going to murder the head of the Mafia.
I am officially off the "death penalty" thing. But damm, doesn't this case demand a special one.
If Italian vigilantes don't take the law into their own hands I'll be depressed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/nyregion/gambino-shooting-anthony-comello-frank-cali.html
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02 Jun 21
@earl-of-trumps saidI doubt he will die of natural causes.
I am officially off the "death penalty" thing. But damm, doesn't this case demand a special one.
If Italian vigilantes don't take the law into their own hands I'll be depressed.