Paolo Borsellino (January 19, 1940 - July 19, 1992) was an Italian anti-Mafia magistrate. January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... A magistrate is a judicial officer. ...

Biography

Born in a middle-class Palermo neighbourhood, la Kalsa, Borsellino obtained a degree in law at University of Palermo, with honors, in 1962. Then, after his father's death, he passed the judging exam in 1963. During those years, he worked in many cities inside Sicily (Enna in 1965, Mazara del Vallo in 1967, Monreale in 1969). After he married in 1968, he transferred to his native Palermo in 1975 together with Rocco Chinnici, where he then started his unfinished work to fight and defeat the growing Sicilian Mafia. The University of Palermo (Italian: Università degli Studi di Palermo) is a university located in Palermo, Italy, and founded in 1806. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Sicily (Sicilia in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,708 km² (9,926 sq. ... Enna, the ancient Haenna, is a city located in the center of Sicily in the province of Enna, towering above the surrounding countryside. ... Mazara del Vallo is a town in South-Western Sicily, Italy, which lies mainly on the left bank at the mouth of the Mazaro river, administratively part of the province of Trapani. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... The apse of the cathedral of Monreale Monreale is a small city in the province of Palermo, in Sicily, Italy. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Rocco Chinnici became Chief Prosecutor at the Palace of Justice in Palermo following the murder of his predecessor, Cesare Terranova, by the Mafia. ... The Sicilian Mafia (also referred to simply as the Mafia or Cosa Nostra), is a criminal secret society which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. ...

His accomplishments included the arrest of six organization members in 1980; for the same year, one of his workmates, the Carabinieri captain Emanuele Basile, was murdered by the Mafia. Because of that event, he was assigned police protection. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... The Carabinieri is the shortened (and common) name for the Arma dei Carabinieri, an Italian military corps of the gendarmerie type with police functions, which also serves as the Italian military police. ... Emanuele Basile (died May 4, 1980) was a captain of Carabinieri and a collaborator of Paolo Borsellino on anti-Mafia investigations. ...

During those years, working together with Magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Rocco Chinnici, Borsellino continued his research about the Mafia and its links to political and economical powers in Sicily and Italy. In 1983, Rocco Chinnici was killed by a bomb inside his car. His place in the Antimafia Pool was taken by Antonino Caponnetto. In 1986, Borsellino became head of the Procure of Marsala, continuing there his personal campaign against the Mafia bosses, in the most populated city of the province of Trapani. His links with Giovanni Falcone, remained in Palermo, allowed him to cover the entire Western Sicily for investigations. In 1987, after Caponnetto resigned due to illness, Borsellino was protagonist of a great protest about the unsuccessful nomination of his friend Giovanni Falcone as head of the Antimafia Pool. Giovanni Falcone. ... Rocco Chinnici became Chief Prosecutor at the Palace of Justice in Palermo following the murder of his predecessor, Cesare Terranova, by the Mafia. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rocco Chinnici became Chief Prosecutor at the Palace of Justice in Palermo following the murder of his predecessor, Cesare Terranova, by the Mafia. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Marsala is a seaport city located in the province of Trapani on the island of Sicily in Italy, of 77,784 inhabitants (2001). ... Torre della Colombaia Trapani (2004 population 67,456) is a city in the west coast of Sicily in Italy. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Falcone-Borsellino plaque at Palermo International Airport.

In 1992, after five years of battling the Mafia, Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D'Amelio, Palermo, less than two months after the death of his good friend Falcone. The bomb attack also claimed the lives of five policemen: Agostino Catalano, Walter Cosina, Emanuela Loi, Vincenzo Li Muli, Claudio Traina. In recognition of their efforts in the anti-Mafia trials, he and Giovanni Falcone were named as heroes of the last 60 years in the November 13, 2006 issue of Time Magazine. Falcone-Borsellino plaque at Palermo International Airport. ... Falcone-Borsellino plaque at Palermo International Airport. ... Palermo International Airport (IATA: PMO, ICAO: LICJ), 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. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Giovanni Falcone. ... November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ...

In his last video interview [1], given the 21st May 1992 to Jean Pierre Moscardo e Fabrizio Calvi, he spoke about the possible link between Cosa Nostra's mafiosi and rich italian businessmen such as future prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. It received surprisingly scarce visibility in the italian television up to present.   (born September 29, 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. ...

Salvatore Riina, the head of the Corleonesi Mafia Family, is now serving a life sentence in prison for sanctioning the murders of Borsellino and Falcone, as well as for many other crimes. Salvatore Riina Salvatore Riina, also known as Totò Riina (born November 16, 1930) is one of the most infamous members of the Sicilian Mafia. ...

Paolo Borsellino today is considered as one of the most important magistrates killed by the Sicilian Mafia during the 1980s and 1990s, and he is remembered as one of the main symbols of the battle of the State against the Mafia.

Many schools and public building were named after him, including the Palermo International Airport (now known as Falcone-Borsellino Airport). A memorial by local sculptor Tommaso Geraci is there. Palermo International Airport (IATA: PMO, ICAO: LICJ), 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. ... A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this article is man-made and selected for special recognition as art. ... Tommaso Geraci, sculptor, born 1931 on the Italian island of Sicily. ...

His sister Rita ran as centre-left presidential candidate in the 2006 regional election, after having won the regional primary election, but lost to incumbent Salvatore Cuffaro Rita Borsellino Rita Borsellino (born 2 June 1945 in Palermo) is an Italian anti-mafia activist, and sister of the late judge Paolo Borsellino, killed in 1992 by a car bomb. ... The Union (Italian: LUnione) is an Italian centre-left political party coalition. ... A regional election for the renewal of the Regional Assembly and the Presidency of Sicily will be held on May 28 and 29, 2006. ... The mechanism of primary elections was quite unseen in Italy before the 2005 regional elections, for which the left-wing alliance The Union delegate its potential electors to decide about the candidates as President of the Regions of Apulia and Calabria. ... Salvatore Totò Cuffaro (born February 21, 1958 in Raffadali, Agrigento) is an Italian politician, and the current President of Sicily. ...

Sources

• Excellent Cadavers (1995) Alexander Stille, Vintage ISBN 0-09-959491-9
• The Antimafia: Italy’s fight against organized crime (1999), Alison Jamieson, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-80158-X.
• Cosa Nostra (2004) John Dickie, Coronet, ISBN 0-340-82435-2

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External links

• (Italian) Biography of Paolo Borsellino
• (Italian) Interview to Paolo Borsellino