Everything you need to know about the murder of Paolo Borsellino.
Paolo Borsellino and his five bodyguards were murdered by the Mafia via bombing in the 90’s, but there are still unanswered questions. Today, we know only that Cosa Nostra participated in planning the attack and that Borsellino was not killed because of the failure of the negotiations conducted by the Carabinieri with Riina.
A meticulous re-examination of yellowing transcripts, statements from long-standing witnesses, old and new truths reveal a chilling scenario. Falcone and Borsellino had set their sights on Milan, which for over twenty years had been the true capital of the Mafia. Within the city’s respectable drawing rooms, the bosses had found the ideal accomplices to launder and multiply the hundreds of billions earned through international drug trafficking. Borsellino had grasped the complex web of money and complicity in which even Riina and Provenzano often acted as puppets rather than puppet masters. Yet the State did precious little to protect him.
