Italian President Georgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Mario Monti today marked the
20th anniversary of the murder of anti Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone at ceremonies
in Italy. Falcone was killed by the Mafia on the 23 May 1992 when a half-ton bomb
was placed under the motorway between and the city of .
Today’s anniversary
comes less than a week after a bomb attack on a school in Brindisi, which was named
after Falcone’s wife, killed one girl and wounded a number of others.
No one
has as yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
“ His murder was a very dark
day for Italians and way beyond. It showed that the Mafia was prepared to act in a
really very spectacular and brutal way”, says Professor of International Relations
at the University of Rome, James Walston on Falcone's killing.
He adds that
Falcone’s would be remember as a man of honesty with sense of ethics.