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Brusca was born on 20 February 1957 in San Giuseppe Jato. His grandfather and great-grandfather, both farmers, were made members of the Mafia. His father Bernardo Brusca (1929–2000), a local Mafia patriarch, served concurrent life sentences for numerous homicides.
Jun 1, 2021 · Brusca, now 64, was a key figure within the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia group. In 1992, he detonated the bomb that killed Italy's leading anti-Mafia investigator, judge Giovanni...
Apr 18, 2018 · Sicilian Mafia hitman Giovanni Brusca murdered so many people that he actually lost count. From the 1970s to the 1990s, Brusca would kill whoever the Mafia wanted dead — from government officials to innocent children. And he wasn’t even a little bit sorry.
Jun 1, 2021 · Giovanni Brusca completed 25 years in prison for murder, including the killings of Giovanni Falcone, an anti-mafia crusader, and a 14-year-old boy he dissolved in acid. He later became an...
Jun 1, 2021 · Sicilian Mafia turncoat Giovanni Brusca, the man who detonated the bomb that killed judge Giovanni Falcone in 1992, has been released from jail after serving a 25-year sentence, causing...
Jun 1, 2021 · Giovanni Brusca, 64, nicknamed “the swine” or “u scannacristiani” (the people-slayer), who set off the explosive that the killed anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone in 1992, is a now a...
Jun 1, 2021 · After he was arrested in 1996, the mobster confessed to playing a role in more than 100 killings, including the murder of a 14-year-old boy who was dissolved in acid because his father had been an...
