| Capaci bombing | |
|---|---|
 Aerial view of the bombing site on Highway A29 | |
| Location | Capaci, Sicily, Italy |
| Coordinates | 38°10′58″N 13°14′41″E / 38.18278°N 13.24472°E |
| Date | 23 May 1992 5:58 PM[1] |
| Target | Giovanni Falcone |
Attack type | Assassination |
| Weapons | explosives (Semtex and TNT) |
| Deaths | 5 |
| Injured | 23 |
| Perpetrators | Sicilian Mafia |
| Motive | Retaliation against the anti-mafia fight |
The Capaci bombing (Italian: Strage di Capaci) was a terror attack[2] by the Sicilian Mafia that took place on 23 May 1992 on Highway A29, close to the junction of Capaci, Sicily. It killed magistrate Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo, and three police escort agents, Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo and Antonio Montinaro; agents Paolo Capuzza, Angelo Corbo, Gaspare Bravo and Giuseppe Costanza survived.
Salvatore Cancemi, who later turned pentito, described the Mafia's victory celebration that followed the Capaci bombing; Totò Riina ordered champagne while they toasted.[3] Santino Di Matteo, who also later turned pentito, revealed all the details of the assassination: who tunnelled beneath the motorway, who packed the 13 drums with TNT and Semtex, who hauled them into place on a skateboard, and who pressed the remote-control button to trigger the bomb.[4]
- ^ The National Institute of Geophysics communicated that according to the findings of the Monte Cammarata (AG) station, determined by the temporal analysis of the recorded signals, it was possible to establish the exact moment of the explosion.
- ^ "New Arrests for Via D'Amelio Bomb Attack". corriere.it. 8 March 2012. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- ^ Stille, Excellent Cadavers, p. 404-05
- ^ Freed mafia grass a marked man, The Guardian, March 14, 2002