1. Giovanni Brusca played a major role in the 1992 murders of Antimafia Commission prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and businessman Ignazio Salvo, and once stated that he had committed between 100 and 200 murders.
21 Facts About Giovanni Brusca
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Giovanni Brusca was captured in 1996, turned pentito and his sentence reduced to twenty-six years in prison.
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Giovanni Brusca was born on 20 February 1957 in San Giuseppe Jato.
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When Bernardo was sent to prison in 1985, Giovanni Brusca became head of his San Giuseppe Jato district.
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Giovanni Brusca detonated the explosives as Falcone's car drove along the road, killing Falcone, his wife and his three bodyguards.
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Months after Falcone's death, Giovanni Brusca murdered crime boss Vincenzo Milazzo and businessman Ignazio Salvo.
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Giovanni Brusca revealed all the details of the assassination: who tunnelled beneath the motorway, who packed the thirteen drums with TNT and Semtex, who hauled them into place on a skateboard and who triggered the detonator.
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Shortly before he ordered the murder of Giuseppe, Giovanni Brusca had discovered that he had been sentenced in absentia to a life sentence for Salvo's murder.
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Giovanni Brusca was involved in the campaign of terror in 1993 against the state during their crackdown against the Mafia after the murders of Falcone and another anti-Mafia magistrate, Paolo Borsellino.
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On 20 May 1996, Giovanni Brusca was arrested in a small house near Agrigento, where he was dining with his girlfriend, their young son and his brother Vincenzo, his sister-in-law and their two children.
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When Giovanni Brusca was hurried into Palermo police station some ninety minutes after the arrest, dozens of police officers cheered, honked their horns and embraced each other.
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In 1997, Di Matteo and Giovanni Brusca met face to face during court proceedings.
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In 1999, Giovanni Brusca was sentenced to thirty years in prison for Giuseppe's murder.
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In 1997, Giovanni Brusca was sentenced to twenty-six years in prison for the Falcone bombing.
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Giovanni Brusca was given another life sentence in 2009 for the murder of Salvatore Carava.
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Giovanni Brusca had offered a controversial version of the capture of Toto Riina: a secret deal between Carabinieri officers, secret agents and Mafia bosses tired of Riina's dictatorship.
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Giovanni Brusca claimed that Riina had told him that after the killing of Falcone, he had been in indirect negotiations with Minister of the Interior Nicola Mancino on a deal to prevent any further killings.
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Giovanni Brusca was imprisoned in Rebibbia, Rome, and though he requested house arrest nine times since 2002, all of these requests had been refused.
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In 2004, it was reported that Giovanni Brusca was allowed out of prison for one week every 45 days to see his family, a reward for his good behaviour as well as becoming an informant and co-operating with authorities.
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On 31 May 2021, Giovanni Brusca was released, forty-five days before the conclusion of his sentence, on parole for four years.
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Giovanni Brusca was portrayed in the 2007 Italian TV series Il Capo dei Capi, the 2018 TV series Il cacciatore, and the 2019 film Il traditore.