Mafioso Giovanni Brusca free after 25 years in prison – Diepresse.com
The Sicilian, who is also known as the « Pig », had the trigger of the bomb, which killed Mafia hunter Giovanni Falcone in 1992. He wants to have killed 100 people.
The ex-boss Giovanni Brusca, condemned for several mafia offenses. The 68-year-old Sicilian, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, fully paid his guilt to the judiciary and has no more open legal obligations to the state, as it is said from judicial circles. Brusca had left the Rebibbia high security facility in Rome four years ago.
However, he had to report to the police regularly. Now he’s free. In total, he served 25 years in prison. Brusca continues to live under false identity outside of Sicily and remains under witness protection because he had decided to work with the judiciary.
Bub in hydrochloric acid dissolved
Brusca had depressed the bomb trigger, which killed Mafia hunter Giovanni Falcone in Palermo in Palermo in Palermo. The mafioso was arrested four years later. Soon he started cooperating with the Italian judicial authorities. Then he confessed that he killed over 100 people. However, Brusca’s statements are sometimes very controversial and are questioned.
Brusca, who led the nickname « The Pig », among other things, is responsible for one of the most gruesome mafia crimes: the kidnapping and murder of the eleven-year-old son of a mafia witness, whose body was later dissolved in hydrochloric acid. Brusca received 30 years in prison alone. Because of his collaboration with the judiciary, which led to several arrests of other mafiosi, Brusca had asked for house arrest in 2019, but his request had been rejected.
