The name Giovanni Brusca will always be synonymous with the Sicilian Mafia. It was Brusca that carried out the slaying of anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone in 1992 (an explosion that also killed Falcone’s wife and five bodyguards). This in turn eventually led to the opening up of many of the Mafia’s internal secrets. Brusca, nicknamed ‘The Pig’ because of his greed and shabby looking appearance, once claimed to have killed between 100 and 200 people. This could be put down to braggadocio, but what cannot be denied is Brusca's direct involvement in the abduction, grisly torture and dissolving in an acid bath of the 11-year-old son of a rival leader and informant. Brusca went on to collaborate with the authorities and is serving a life sentence.
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