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Reach for the stars

by MANNINO GIUSY

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By Carini's Students
Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino 
The most important heroes fighting against the mafia. Their death has contributed to sensitize the public opinion on the phenomenon of Mafia in the effort to bring Mafia men to justice.
✤Both gave life to Sicily's Antimafia Poool, a group of magistrates set up to investigate on Cosa Nostra and its infiltrations in the economic and political asset of the State.
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✤This brought to the so-called 'maxi trial' in 1986-1987, which led to the conviction of 342 mafiosi.
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✤The two men, who worked closely together, have posthumously become national heroes, martyrs of the country's ongoing attempts to get rid of the scourge of organized crime.
✤As members of the Antimafia Pool both lived under constant police surveillance for their own protection.
Falcone's death did not establish the demise of the fight against the mafia
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✤On May 23rd 1992, Giovanni Falcone was assassinated in broad daylight, a crime that marked a turning point in Sicily's history.
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✤Falcone and his wife, the magistrate Francesca Morvillo, were killed along with their three security escorts when a bomb exploded under their car on the highway near the town of Capaci, in what has become known as the "Capaci's massacre". 
✤Two months after Falcone was murdered, fellow judge Paolo Borsellino was killed by another car bomb.
✤On a Sunday afternoon of July 19th 1992, a parked Fiat loaded with TNT outside his mother's house in Via d'Amelio,, exploded at Borsellino’s arrival. It was an awful shock for the entire civic comminity.
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A Memento not to Forget
✤The mafia killers used more than 500 kilogrammes of explosives in the attack, which was ordered by the mafia godfather, Toto Rina, as a revenge for Falcone's attempts to break up their control of the territory.
✤The magistrate was killed along with five of the six police officers working to protect him that day.