Giovanni Brusca, Italian mafia boss, freed after 25 years in jail
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Relatives of Brusca’s victims and leading politicians decry move, even though ‘people-slayer’ criminal provided state with key information while imprisoned.
Italians have reacted with dismay over the release of an infamous Cosa Nostra mafia boss who, among other crimes, assassinated a prosecutor and dissolved a boy’s body in acid. Sicilian Mafia turncoat Giovanni Brusca, 64, was released from Rome’s Rebibbia prison on Monday after serving a 25-year sentence. He was arrested in 1996, four years after he detonated the bomb that killed Giovanni Falcone, an Italian magistrate who dedicated his career to overthrowing the mafia.More Related News