| Judge Falcone was famous because he was
sentenced to death. The Mafia said he must die - this man who did it so much harm, harried
it so hard and denounced it so openly. The Mafia could not allow him to live. Every one of
his heartbeats was an insult to crime. Every word he said was spitting in the eye of
murder. He lived surrounded by policemen, protected, watched, cordoned off. He no longer
had any freedom or independence. His life hung from a thread that had to stay intact, for
it was the thread of justice. But on 23 May 1992, at five to six in the evening, the Mafia cut that thread. |
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