Giovanni Brusca (born 1957 in San Giuseppe Jato) is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia. He once stated that he had committed at least a hundred murders, but was honestly unable to remember the exact number. Image File history File links Gbrusca. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... San Giuseppe Jato is a village in the Palermo province of Sicily, (Sicilia in Italian) - an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. ... Sicilian (Lu Sicilianu, Lingua Siciliana) is the Romance language spoken in Sicily, Italy. ... The Mafia, also referred to in Italian as Cosa Nostra, which is generally translated our thing in the Italian language, is an organized criminal secret society which evolved in mid-19th century Sicily. ...

A short and chubby man, he was nicknamed lo scannacristiani which translates as Slaughter-Christians. In Sicily, a 'Christian' means a human being. One of his crimes was the murder of the 11-year-old boy Giuseppe Di Matteo, whose father Santino had become an informant. Brusca kidnapped the child and held him for over a year, torturing him and sending photographs of the injuries to the boy's father and telling him to stop co-operating with the police. Brusca eventually strangled the boy and flung his body into a vat of acid.

Brusca was a member of the Corleonisi Mafia Family, from the town of Corleone and his mentor was the then Superboss Salvatore Riina. He was part of a Corleonesi death squad which reported directly to the Boss of Bosses. Corleone is a small town of approximately 12,000 inhabitants in the province of Palermo in Sicily, Italy. ... Salvatore Riina Salvatore Riina, also known as Totò Riina (born November 16, 1930) is one of the most infamous members of the Sicilian Mafia. ...

On May 20, 1996, then aged thirty-nine, Brusca was arrested in a small house in the Sicilian countryside near Agrigento, where he was dining with his girlfriend and their young son. Brusca had received a life sentence the previous year after being convicted in absentia of murder and he was subsequently convicted of the bomb attack that killed the Anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone in the highway that connect the town of Palermo with Punta Raisi Airport, now called Falcone-Borsellino Airport. 20 May is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Agrigento (formerly Girgenti) is the name of a town on the southern coast of Italy, capital of the province of Agrigento. ... In Absentia is the eighth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in September 24, 2002. ... Giovanni Falcone. ... Palermo International Airport, also known as Falcone-Borsellino Airport and Punta Raisi Airport is located at Punta Raisi, 32km (19 miles) west of Palermo, the capital city of the Italian island of Sicily. ... Palermo International Airport, also known as Falcone-Borsellino Airport and Punta Raisi Airport is located at Punta Raisi, 32km (19 miles) west of Palermo, the capital city of the Italian island of Sicily. ...

In 2004, it was reported that Brusca was allowed out of prison for one week every forty-five days to see his family, a reward for his good behaviour as well as becoming an informant and co-operating with the authorities. Relatives of his many victims were angry at such seemingly soft treatment for a multiple-killer. It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in...

See also

• Archived 1996 article from Time on Brusca's crimes and arrest
• The (London) Times report on Brusca's prison priveleges