The following article appears on The Local.

On May 23rd 1992, Sicilian judge and anti-mafia campaigner Giovanni Falcone was assassinated in broad daylight: a crime that marked a turning point on the southern island.

Falcone was killed by a bomb that was placed under his car on a highway near the town of Capaci.

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