Anger as Sicilian mafioso set free
The Guardian, PALERMO, Italy
One of the Sicilian mafia’s most notorious killers, believed to have murdered more than 100 people, has been released from prison after 25 years.
Giovanni Brusca, 64, nicknamed “the swine” or u scannacristiani (“the people slayer”), who set off the explosive that the killed anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone in 1992, is a now a free man. He also ordered the strangling of an 11-year-old boy, whose body was dissolved in acid.
The news on Monday sparked a row in Italy, even though the release of the former Cosa Nostra killer was expected and required by law. In 2000, Brusca decided to collaborate with prosecutors and was given a reduced sentence as a result.
La excarcelación del asesino del juez Falcone conmociona a Italia
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Conmoción en Italia al ser liberado el asesino del juez antimafia Giovanni Falcone
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