Mafia attack organised and carried out by Cosa Nostra on 23 May 1992 near Capaci (in the territory of Isola delle Femmine), in the province of Palermo, with an explosive device containing 500 kg of TNT. The bomb squad detonated a section of the A29 motorway at 17:57 when the car in which anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone and his escort were travelling passed by. In addition to the judge, his wife Francesca Morvillo, also a magistrate, and escort officers Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo and Antonio Montinaro were killed. HTwenty-three people were wounded, including officers Paolo Capuzza, Angelo Corbo, Gaspare Cervello and judicial driver Giuseppe Costanza.
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