Authors: Norman Lewis
Since these two epilogues, the law of attrition by the Mafia has continued.
Among many other atrocities, the most famous was committed in May 1992, when Judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards were all killed by a two-thousand-pound car-bomb. In the judge's biggest case, the maxi-trial of 1986â7 involving four hundred and seventy-six suspected mafiosi, all of the seven officials involved in investigations were murdered. Two months later Judge Paolo Borsellino, Chief Public Prosecutor of Palermo, was also killed by a car-bomb.