Giovanni Falcone (1939–1992)
Author of Men of Honour: The Truth About the Mafia
About the Author
Image credit: Giovanni Falcone en 1991
Works by Giovanni Falcone
STORIE DI COSA NOSTRA 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Giovanni Falcone
- Legal name
- Falcone, Giovanni Salvatore Augusto
- Birthdate
- 1939-05-18
- Date of death
- 1992-05-23
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Palermo
- Occupations
- judge
- Organizations
- Tribunal de Palerme (Enquêteur, Magistrat instructeur, 1978-1992)
Tribunal de Trapani, Sicile (Procureur adjoint et juge d'instruction, 1966-1978)
Tribunal de Lentini, Syrarcuse, Sicile (Magistrat, 1965-1966) - Relationships
- Morvillo, Francesca (Epouse)
Virrga, Pietro (Direceur de thèse)
Borsellino, Paolo (Collègue, Ami)
Chinnici, Rocco (Collègue, Ami)
Caponnetto, Antonino (Collègue, Ami) - Cause of death
- Assassinat ciblé par attentat à la bombe
- Nationality
- Italy
- Birthplace
- Palerme, Sicile, France
- Place of death
- Capaci, Palerme, Sicile, France
- Map Location
- Italie
- Associated Place (for map)
- Italy
Members
Reviews
Mafia expert Diego Gambetta has chosen to discuss Cose di Cosa Nostra by Giovanni (Men of Honour: Truth About the Mafia) by Giovanni Falcone on FiveBooks as one of the top five on his subject - Sicilian Mafia, saying that:
“…Giovanni Falcone was a Sicilian judge who was ultimately assassinated by the Mafia, but not before he had managed to shift the attitude of the Italian government and create a central anti-Mafia agency...There is a sentence in Falcone’s book that I particularly show more liked. He says: “We have to learn to think about the methods of Cosa Nostra calmly and with an open mind.” And that’s exactly what he did. He tried to understand the entity. And he managed to persuade Tommaso Buscetta, the first big Mafioso to turn state witness, to speak. Up to that point many people, including scholars, didn’t believe the Mafia existed as a formal organization. …”
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“…Giovanni Falcone was a Sicilian judge who was ultimately assassinated by the Mafia, but not before he had managed to shift the attitude of the Italian government and create a central anti-Mafia agency...There is a sentence in Falcone’s book that I particularly show more liked. He says: “We have to learn to think about the methods of Cosa Nostra calmly and with an open mind.” And that’s exactly what he did. He tried to understand the entity. And he managed to persuade Tommaso Buscetta, the first big Mafioso to turn state witness, to speak. Up to that point many people, including scholars, didn’t believe the Mafia existed as a formal organization. …”
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»Din kista står klar.« Redan 1987 fick Giovanni Falcone sin dödsdom från Corleone-klanens boss Salvatore Riina, sedvanligt meddelad över telefon på siciliansk dialekt. Detta i samband med den historiska »Maxirättegången«, då 474 mafiosi åtalades.
Domaren Giovanni Falcone hörde till en grupp jurister som under första hälften av åttiotalet kartlade och bekämpade Cosa Nostra, den italienska maffian, som i många år hållit Sicilien i ett järngrepp med mutor, utpressning, show more terror och mord, och med förgreningar i vitala delar av samhället i hela Italien. Falcone var själv född och uppvuxen på Sicilien, med barndomsvänner i familjer kopplade till maffian en bakgrund som var till stor hjälp när det gällde att förstå Cosa Nostra inifrån.
Falcones avslöjanden skulle kosta honom livet. show less
Domaren Giovanni Falcone hörde till en grupp jurister som under första hälften av åttiotalet kartlade och bekämpade Cosa Nostra, den italienska maffian, som i många år hållit Sicilien i ett järngrepp med mutor, utpressning, show more terror och mord, och med förgreningar i vitala delar av samhället i hela Italien. Falcone var själv född och uppvuxen på Sicilien, med barndomsvänner i familjer kopplade till maffian en bakgrund som var till stor hjälp när det gällde att förstå Cosa Nostra inifrån.
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La penna è quella della giornalista francese Marcelle Padovani, ma la voce narrante è quella di Giovanni Falcone. Le venti interviste diventano materiale per dettagliate narrazioni in prima persona che si articolano in sei capitoli, disposti come altrettanti cerchi concentrici attorno al cuore del problema-mafia: lo Stato. Un'analisi che parte dalla violenza, dai messaggi e messaggeri, per arrivare agli innumerevoli intrecci tra vita siciliana e mafia, all'organizzazione in quanto tale, al show more profitto - sua vera ragion d'essere - e, infine, alla sua essenza: il potere. Una testimonianza resa da Falcone dopo aver lasciato Palermo nel 1991.
Dopo aver letto il libro Cose di Cosa No show less
Dopo aver letto il libro Cose di Cosa No show less
Benché non perfettamente organico (si tratta dell'estratto di una serie di interviste effettuate dalla giornalista Marcelle Padovani), il testo è assolutamente interessante per cominciare a conoscere una piccola parte dell'enorme mondo mafia
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