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92 relations: Alexander Stille, Allied invasion of Sicily, Antimafia Pool, Antonino Caponnetto, Antonio Di Pietro, Assassination, Autostrada A29 (Italy), Beppe Grillo, Boris Giuliano, Bruno Contrada, Capaci, Capaci bombing, Capo dei capi, Carabinieri, Carla Del Ponte, Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, Catholic Action, Cesare Terranova, Chazz Palminteri, Civil Courage Prize, Claudio Martelli, Communism, Corleonesi Mafia clan, Corrado Carnevale, Culvert, Emanuele Basile, Excellent Cadavers, Excellent Cadavers (film), Falcone–Borsellino Airport, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Francesca Morvillo, French Connection, Gaetano Costa, Gambino crime family, Genoa, Giovanni Brusca, Giovanni Falcone (film), Giulio Andreotti, Giuseppe Ferrara, Grotta dell'Addaura, HBO, Italian Naval Academy, Italian Social Movement, Italians, Italy, John Train (investment advisor), Judge, Kalsa, Kingdom of Italy, Leoluca Bagarella, ..., Leoluca Orlando, List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia, Made man, Magistrate, Mani pulite, Marco Travaglio, Marseille, Maxi Trial, Money laundering, Morphine, National Geographic Society, Palermo, Paolo Borsellino, Pentito, Pio La Torre, Pizza Connection Trial, RAI, Rocco Chinnici, Rovshan Aliyev, Rudy Giuliani, Salvatore Cancemi, Salvatore Inzerillo, Salvatore Lima, Salvatore Riina, Salvo Montalbano, San Domenico, Palermo, Sculpture, Sicilian Mafia, Sicilian Mafia Commission, Sicilians, Sicily, SISDE, The Independent, The Young Montalbano, Time (magazine), Tommaso Buscetta, Tommaso Geraci, Trial in absentia, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, University of Palermo, Via D'Amelio bombing, 1992 (TV series). Expand index (42 more) »
Alexander Stille
Alexander Stille (born 1 January 1957 in New York City) is an American author and journalist.
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Allied invasion of Sicily
The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers (Italy and Nazi Germany).
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Antimafia Pool
The Antimafia Pool was a group of investigating magistrates at the Prosecuting Office of Palermo (Sicily) who closely worked together sharing information and developing new investigative and prosecutorial strategies against the Sicilian Mafia.
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Antonino Caponnetto
Antonino Caponnetto (5 September 1920 – 6 December 2002) was an Italian Antimafia magistrate.
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Antonio Di Pietro
Antonio Di Pietro (born October 2, 1950) is an Italian politician and lawyer.
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Assassination
Assassination is the killing of a prominent person, either for political or religious reasons or for payment.
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Autostrada A29 (Italy)
The Autostrada A29 is a motorway on the island of Sicily that links Palermo to Mazara del Vallo.
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Beppe Grillo
Giuseppe Piero "Beppe" Grillo (born 21 July 1948) is an Italian comedian, actor, blogger and political activist.
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Boris Giuliano
Giorgio Boris Giuliano (Piazza Armerina (Enna), October 22, 1930 – Palermo, July 21, 1979) was a police chief from Palermo, Sicily.
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Bruno Contrada
Bruno Contrada (born September 2, 1931) is the former police chief of Palermo and deputy director of the civil intelligence service SISDE who was arrested based on revelations of former Sicilian Mafiosi turned pentiti, Gaspare Mutolo and Giuseppe Marchese.
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Capaci
Capaci is a town and comune in the Province of Palermo in Sicily, Italy.
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Capaci bombing
The Capaci bombing (Strage di Capaci) was an attack by the Sicilian Mafia which took place on May 23, 1992 on Highway A29, close to the junction of Capaci, Sicily.
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Capo dei capi
Capo di tutti capi or capo dei capi is Italian for "boss of all bosses" or "boss of bosses".
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Carabinieri
The Carabinieri (formally Arma dei Carabinieri, "Carabinieri Force" or previously Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali, "Royal Carabinieri Corps") is the fourth Italian military force charged with police duties under the authority of the Ministry of Defense.
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Carla Del Ponte
Carla Del Ponte (born February 9, 1947) is a former Chief Prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals.
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Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa (27 September 1920 – 3 September 1982) was an Italian general, notable for campaigning against terrorism during the 1970s in Italy.
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Catholic Action
Catholic Action was the name of many groups of lay Catholics who were attempting to encourage a Catholic influence on society.
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Cesare Terranova
Cesare Terranova (25 August 1921 in Petralia Sottana – 25 September 1979 in Palermo), Centro Studi Giuridici e Sociali "Cesare Terranova" (accessed 28 October 2012) can not be accessed 20 August 2017 was an Italian judge and politician from Sicily notable for his anti-Mafia stance.
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Chazz Palminteri
Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri (born May 15, 1952).
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Civil Courage Prize
The Civil Courage Prize is a human rights award which recognizes "steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk — rather than military valor." The prize was founded in 2000 by the Northcote Parkinson Fund.
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Claudio Martelli
Claudio Martelli (born 24 September 1943) is an Italian politician, and was the right-hand man of Bettino Craxi, the socialist Prime Minister from 1983–1987.
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Communism
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
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Corleonesi Mafia clan
The Corleonesi are a faction within the Sicilian Mafia that dominated Cosa Nostra in the 1980s and the 1990s.
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Corrado Carnevale
Corrado Carnevale (born May 9, 1930) is an Italian judge, currently member of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation.
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Culvert
A culvert is a structure that allows water to flow under a road, railroad, trail, or similar obstruction from one side to the other side.
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Emanuele Basile
Emanuele Basile (July 2, 1949 – May 4, 1980) was a captain of the Carabinieri and a collaborator of Paolo Borsellino on anti-Mafia investigations.
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Excellent Cadavers
Excellent Cadavers is a 1995 non-fiction book by American author Alexander Stille about the Sicilian Mafia, concentrating on magistrate Giovanni Falcone's fight against the Mafia and his 1992 assassination.
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Excellent Cadavers (film)
Excellent Cadavers (also known as Falcone) is a 1999 television film directed by Ricky Tognazzi.
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Falcone–Borsellino Airport
Falcone–Borsellino Airport (Aeroporto Falcone e Borsellino) or simply Palermo Airport, formerly Punta Raisi Airport is located at Punta Raisi, west northwest of Palermo, the capital city of the Italian island of Sicily.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Francesca Morvillo
Francesca Laura Morvillo (Palermo, 14 December 1945 – Palermo, 23 May 1992) was an Italian magistrate.
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French Connection
The French Connection was a scheme through which heroin was smuggled from Turkey to France and then to the United States through Canada.
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Gaetano Costa
Gaetano Costa (Caltanissetta, 1 March 1916 - Palermo, 6 August 1980) was an Italian magistrate killed by the Cosa Nostra.
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Gambino crime family
The Gambino crime family (pronounced) is one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).
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Genoa
Genoa (Genova,; Zêna; English, historically, and Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.
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Giovanni Brusca
Giovanni Brusca (born 20 February 1957 in San Giuseppe Jato) is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia.
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Giovanni Falcone (film)
Giovanni Falcone is a 1993 Italian biographical drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Ferrara.
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Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti (14 January 1919 – 6 May 2013) was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the 41st Prime Minister of Italy and leader of the Christian Democracy party; he was the sixth longest-serving Prime Minister since the Italian Unification and the second longest-serving post-war Prime Minister, after Silvio Berlusconi.
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Giuseppe Ferrara
Giuseppe Ferrara (15 July 1932 – 25 June 2016) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
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Grotta dell'Addaura
The Addaura cave (Italian: Grotta dell'Addaura) is a complex of three natural grottoes located on the northeast side of Mount Pellegrino in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy.
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HBO
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..
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Italian Naval Academy
The Italian Naval Academy (Italian: Accademia Navale) is a coeducational military university in Livorno, which is responsible for the technical training of military officers of the Italian Navy.
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Italian Social Movement
The Italian Social Movement (MSI), later the Italian Social Movement – National Right (Movimento Sociale Italiano – Destra Nazionale, MSI–DN), was a neo-fascist and post-fascist political party in Italy.
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Italians
The Italians (Italiani) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation native to the Italian peninsula.
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Italy
Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.
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John Train (investment advisor)
John Train (born 1928) is an American investment advisor and author.
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Judge
A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.
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Kalsa
Kalsa or Mandamento Tribunali is a historical quarter of the Italian city of Palermo in Sicily.
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Kingdom of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) was a state which existed from 1861—when King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy—until 1946—when a constitutional referendum led civil discontent to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italian Republic.
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Leoluca Bagarella
Leoluca Bagarella (born February 3, 1942, Corleone) is an Italian criminal and member of the Sicilian Mafia.
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Leoluca Orlando
Leoluca Orlando (born 1 August 1947), is an Italian politician and current Mayor of Palermo.
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List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia
This list of victims of the Sicilian Mafia includes people who have been killed by the Sicilian Mafia while opposing its rule.
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Made man
In the American Mafia, a made man is a fully initiated member of the Mafia.
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Magistrate
The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law.
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Mani pulite
Mani pulite (Italian for "clean hands") was a nationwide judicial investigation into political corruption in Italy held in the 1990s.
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Marco Travaglio
Marco Travaglio (born 13 October 1964) is an Italian investigative journalist, writer and opinion leader, director of the independent journal Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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Marseille
Marseille (Provençal: Marselha), is the second-largest city of France and the largest city of the Provence historical region.
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Maxi Trial
The Maxi Trial (Italian: Maxiprocesso) was a criminal trial against the Sicilian Mafia that took place in Palermo in Sicily.
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Money laundering
Money laundering is the act of concealing the transformation of profits from illegal activities and corruption into ostensibly "legitimate" assets.
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Morphine
Morphine is a pain medication of the opiate variety which is found naturally in a number of plants and animals.
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.
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Palermo
Palermo (Sicilian: Palermu, Panormus, from Πάνορμος, Panormos) is a city of Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo.
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Paolo Borsellino
Paolo Borsellino (January 19, 1940 – July 19, 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate.
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Pentito
Italian term pentito ("repentant"; plural: pentiti) is used colloquially to designate people in Italy who were formerly part of criminal or terrorist organizations and who, following their arrests, decided to "repent" and collaborate with the judiciary to help further investigations.
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Pio La Torre
Pio La Torre (Palermo, December 24, 1927 – Palermo, April 30, 1982) was a leader of the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI).
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Pizza Connection Trial
The Pizza Connection Trial stands as the longest criminal jury trial in the federal courts in U.S. history.
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RAI
RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. (commercially styled Rai; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The RAI operates many DVB and Sat television channels and radio stations, broadcasting via digital terrestrial transmission (15 television and 7 radio channels nationwide) and from several satellite platforms. It is the biggest television broadcaster in Italy and competes with Mediaset, and other minor television and radio networks. The RAI has a relatively high television audience share of 33.8%. RAI broadcasts are also received in neighboring countries, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Slovenia, Vatican City, Switzerland, and Tunisia, and elsewhere on cable and satellite. Sometimes Rai 1 was received even further in Europe via Sporadic E until the digital switch off in July 2012. Half of the RAI's revenues come from broadcast receiving licence fees, the rest from the sale of advertising time Retrieved on 2007-10-10 Italian Ministry of Communications, Retrieved on 2007-10-10. In 1950, the RAI became one of the 23 founding broadcasting organizations of the European Broadcasting Union.
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Rocco Chinnici
Rocco Chinnici (19 January 1925 in Misilmeri – 29 July 1983 in Palermo) was a noted Italian Antimafia magistrate killed by the Sicilian Mafia.
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Rovshan Aliyev
Rovshan Aliyev (Rövşən Əliyev; born 1955 in Agstafa, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR - 12 March 2002 in Baku, Azerbaijan) was an Azerbaijani criminalist and deputy chief of Prosecutor's Office Grave Crimes Investigation Department.
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Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani (born May 28, 1944) is an American politician, attorney, businessman, public speaker, former mayor of New York City, and attorney to President Donald Trump.
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Salvatore Cancemi
Salvatore Cancemi (Palermo, 19 March 1942 – 14 January 2011) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia.
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Salvatore Inzerillo
Salvatore Inzerillo (Palermo, 1944 – Palermo, May 11, 1981) was an Italian criminal, a member of the Sicilian Mafia, also known as Totuccio (a diminutive for Salvatore).
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Salvatore Lima
Salvatore Achille Ettore Lima (January 23, 1928 – March 12, 1992) was an Italian politician from Sicily who was associated with, and murdered by, the Sicilian Mafia.
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Salvatore Riina
Salvatore "Totò" Riina (16 November 1930 in Corleone – 17 November 2017 in Parma), called Totò 'u Curtu (Totò the Short; Totò being the diminutive of "Salvatore"), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s with the assassinations of Antimafia Commission prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, resulting in widespread public outcry and a major crackdown by the authorities.
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Salvo Montalbano
Inspector Salvo Montalbano (Italian: commissario Salvo Montalbano) is a fictional detective created by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri in a series of novels and short stories.
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San Domenico, Palermo
The Church of Saint Dominic (Italian: Chiesa di San Domenico or simply San Domenico) is the second most important church of Palermo after the ancient cathedral.
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Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
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Sicilian Mafia
The Sicilian Mafia, also known as simply the Mafia and frequently referred to by members as Cosa Nostra (this thing of ours), is a criminal syndicate in Sicily, Italy.
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Sicilian Mafia Commission
The Sicilian Mafia Commission, known as Commissione or Cupola, is a body of leading Sicilian Mafia members to decide on important questions concerning the actions of, and settling disputes within the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra.
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Sicilians
Sicilians or the Sicilian people (Siciliani in Italian and Sicilian, or also Siculi in Italian) are a Southern European ethnic group from or with origins in the Italian island of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea as well as the largest and most populous of the autonomous regions of Italy.
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Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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SISDE
Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica (Intelligence and Democratic Security Service), was the domestic intelligence agency of Italy.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Young Montalbano
The Young Montalbano is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) in 2012 and 2015.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Tommaso Buscetta
Tommaso Buscetta (13 July 1928 – 2 April 2000) was an Italian gangster, a member of the Sicilian Mafia, who became the first Mafia boss to turn informant (pentito) and explain the inner workings of the organisation.
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Tommaso Geraci
Tommaso Geraci (born 29 June 1931) is an Italian sculptor.
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Trial in absentia
Trial in absentia is a criminal proceeding in a court of law in which the person who is subject to it is not physically present at those proceedings.
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United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in eight New York counties: Manhattan (New York County), Bronx, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess and Sullivan.
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University of Palermo
The University of Palermo (Università degli Studi di Palermo) is a university located in Palermo, Italy, and founded in 1806.
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Via D'Amelio bombing
The via D'Amelio bombing (Strage di via D'Amelio) was an attack by the Sicilian Mafia which took place in Palermo, Sicily, on 19 July 1992.
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1992 (TV series)
1992 is an Italian political drama television series created by Alessandro Fabbri, Ludovica Rampoldi, Stefano Sardo and based on an idea by Stefano Accorsi.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Falcone
