Francesca Morvillo

Francesca Laura Morvillo (14 December 1945 – 23 May 1992) was an Italian magistrate, wife of Giovanni Falcone and victim of the Sicilian Mafia. On 23 May 1992, she, her husband and three police officers on their security detail were killed in the Capaci bombing.

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"No, I don’t want to think about what might happen to Giovanni; he has to carry on with his work – that’s his life, he couldn’t do without it – and I have to be there for him."

- Francesca Morvillo

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"Happiness is going into town to go shopping with my mum."

- Francesca Morvillo

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"A young judges' advisor at the Court of Appeal of Palermo and the wife of Judge Giovanni Falcone, although fully aware of the grave dangers to which her husband was exposed, she remained constantly by his side, enduring the same hardships and privations, always encouraging and urging him on in the tough fight he had undertaken against the Mafia. Caught up, alongside the magistrate, in a cowardly and brutal ambush, she sacrificed her life, having lived it by combining her deep feelings of affection, esteem and respect for her husband with her dedication to the highest ideals of justice (reason for the award of the Gold Medal for Civil Valour)."