"Politics and the mafia are two powers that live off controlling the same territory: either they wage war against each other or they come to an agreement."
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I complici, p. 36
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Paolo Borsellino
1940 – 1992
Paolo Emanuele Borsellino (1940 – 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career, culminating in the Maxi Trial in 1986–1987, on 19 July 1992, Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D'Amelio, near his mother's house in Palermo.
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