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UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) presented with portrait-sized engraving of Judge Giovanni Falcone by the Italian government

Vienna, 6 May 2016 - In a ceremony at the United Nations Office in Vienna today, hosted by the Italian Government, the international community offered a warm tribute to murdered Italian Judge Giovanni Falcone, who dedicated his life to fighting organized crime.

Judge Falcone, in April 1992, took part in the very first meeting of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, established by the UN General Assembly, which raised the alarm about the rise of transnational crime. One month later, on 23 May, Judge Falcone, along with his wife Francesca Morvillo and three policemen, Rocco Dicillo, Antonio Montinaro and Vito Schifani, were  killed in a roadside bomb blast.

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Once upon a time in Palermo:

Giovanni Falcone and the fight against Cosa Nostra

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On the 30th anniversary of the “Capaci bombing” in which anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife, and three police escort agents were brutally killed, we release a paper that analyses a 117-page document, declassified by the Antimafia Commission of the Italian Parliament in July 2021.

The document reports on the meeting between the Commission, Judge Falcone, and the other prosecuting magistrates of the so-called ‘Antimafia Pool’ of judges. The meeting was held in Palermo, Sicily, in June 1990.

The decision to declassify this 117-page record, however, comes more than a year after a commitment was made by the Commission in 2020 to declassify all of its meeting minutes from 1963 to 2001. Having scrutinized the Commission’s entire archive, the Italian civil society movement, “I Cittadini Contro le Mafie e la Corruzione” (‘Citizens against the Mafia an