He killed Falcone, his wife, Francesca Morvillo, and three escorting officers. “I’m speechless when I think that Brusca is a free man,” said Nello Musemeci, the island’s governor. When in 1984 he persuaded Tommaso Buscetta, nicknamed the “Boss of the Two Worlds”, to testify against fellow mafiosi, the Italian authorities knew little about the Sicilian mafia. Since then, hundreds of mafiosi across Italy began collaborating with magistrates and breaking omertà, the mafia’s once impregnable code of silence. “If the Sicilian mafia is weaker today, we owe a debt of gratitude to my brother and his law,’’ said Maria Falcone.

Source: The Guardian June 11, 2021 03:56 UTC