Paolo Emanuele Borsellino was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate.
19 Facts About Paolo Borsellino
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Paolo Borsellino was born in a middle-class Palermo neighbourhood, Kalsa, a neighborhood of central Palermo which suffered extensive destruction by aerial attacks during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.
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Paolo Borsellino's father was a pharmacist and his mother ran a pharmacy in the Via della Vetriera, next to the house where Paolo was born.
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Paolo Borsellino obtained a degree in law at the University of Palermo, with honours, in 1962.
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Paolo Borsellino was assigned to investigate the murder and became a special target when he signed the arrest warrant for Francesco Madonia on a charge of ordering the murder of Basile.
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Paolo Borsellino became part of Palermo's Antimafia Pool, created by Chinnici.
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In 1986, Paolo Borsellino became head of the Public Prosecution Office of Marsala, continuing his personal campaign against the Mafia bosses, in the most populated city of the province of Trapani.
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In 1987, after Caponnetto resigned due to illness, Paolo Borsellino was protagonist of a great protest about the unsuccessful nomination of his friend Falcone as head of the Antimafia Pool.
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Some prosecutors have theorized that Paolo Borsellino was killed because he had found out about the negotiations.
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Paolo Borsellino failed to get himself appointed to the investigation into Falcone's murder.
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Paolo Borsellino unofficially asked Carabinieri Colonel Mario Mori to resume a previous investigation by Falcone into Mafia control of public works contracts.
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However, Mori, unbeknownst to Paolo Borsellino, was involved in secret meetings with Vito Ciancimino, who was close to Riina's lieutenant Bernardo Provenzano.
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Paolo Borsellino maintained he had spoken to Ciancimino to further investigation of the Mafia, that Ciancimino had disclosed little beyond implicitly admitting he knew Mafia members, and that key meetings were after Borsellino's death.
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On 17 July 1992, Paolo Borsellino went to Rome where he was told by Gaspare Mutolo, a Mafia member turned informer, of two allegedly corrupt officials: Bruno Contrada, former head of Palermo Flying Squad, now working for the secret service, and anti-Mafia prosecutor Domenico Signorino.
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Paolo Borsellino considered Signorino a friend and was deeply troubled by the allegation.
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Paolo Borsellino was further disconcerted when the meeting was interrupted by a call from the Minister of the Interior, Nicola Mancino, requesting his immediate presence.
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Paolo Borsellino attended to discover that Contrada was there, and knew about the supposedly secret meeting with the informer.
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On 19 July 1992, Paolo Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D'Amelio, near his mother's house in Palermo, less than two months after the death of his friend Falcone.
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Paolo Borsellino today is considered as one of the most important magistrates killed by the Sicilian Mafia and he is remembered as one of the main symbols of the battle of the State against the Mafia.