Capaci bombing
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The Capaci bombing (Italian: Strage di Capaci) was a terror attack[2] by the Sicilian Mafia that took place on 23 May 1992 on Highway A29, close to the junction of Capaci, Sicily. It killed magistrate Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo, and three police escort agents, Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo and Antonio Montinaro; agents Paolo Capuzza, Angelo Corbo, Gaspare Bravo and Giuseppe Costanza survived.
Capaci bombing | |
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Location | Capaci, Sicily, Italy |
Coordinates | 38°10′58″N 13°14′41″E |
Date | 23 May 1992; 31 years ago (1992-05-23) 5:58 PM[1] |
Target | Giovanni Falcone |
Attack type | Assassination |
Weapons | explosives (Semtex and TNT) |
Deaths | 5 |
Injured | 23 |
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Motive | Retaliation against the anti-mafia fight |
Salvatore Cancemi, who later turned pentito, described the Mafia's victory celebration that followed the Capaci bombing; Totò Riina ordered champagne while they toasted.[3] Santino Di Matteo, who also later turned pentito, revealed all the details of the assassination: who tunnelled beneath the motorway, who packed the 13 drums with TNT and Semtex, who hauled them into place on a skateboard, and who pressed the button.[4]