On this date, May 31, 2021, Italian Mafia Boss, Giovanni Brusca was released. Amid public backlash, politicians Matteo Salvini of the Lega Nordand Enrico Lettaof the Democratic Party were also critical of the decision to release Brusca.
I will post information about this Mafia Boss from Wikipedia and other links before giving my comments.
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Brusca was arrested in 1996.
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Giovanni Brusca(Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni ˈbruska]; born 20 February 1957) is an Italian mobsterand former member of the Corleonesiclan of the Sicilian Mafia. He had a major role in the 1992 murders of Antimafia Commission prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and businessman Ignazio Salvo, and once stated that he had committed between 100 and 200 murders. Brusca had been sentenced to life imprisonmentin absentia for Mafia association and multiple murder. He was captured in 1996, turned pentito, and his sentence reduced to 26 years in prison. In 2021, Brusca was released from prison.
A pudgy, bearded and unkempt mafioso, Brusca was known in Mafia circles as 'u verru (in Sicilian) or il porco or il maiale (in Italian; "the pig", "the swine") or 'u scannacristiani("the people-slayer"; in the Sicilian language the word cristianumeans both "Christian" and "human being"). Tommaso Buscetta, the Mafia turncoat who had cooperated with Falcone’s investigations, remembered Giovanni Brusca as "a wild stallion but a great leader."
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Anger as notorious Sicilian mafioso the ‘people-slayer’ is freed
Giovanni Brusca was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life for more than 100 murders
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Those who allow violent criminals the opportunity to kill, maim and rape, share the responsibility for it and the tragedy such crimes produce. More, they allow these monsters to create for all of us a world as dark and evil as their own.
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The release of an infamous Sicilian mafia killer dubbed 'the people slayer' sparks an outcry in Italy
Jacob Sarkisian
Jun 5, 2021, 10:44 AM
- Giovanni Brusca was arrested in 1996.
- Giovanni Brusca is believed to have killed over 100 people.
- Brusca was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
- However, he received a reduced sentence after agreeing to colloborate with authorities.
A member of the Sicilian mafia who is believed to have murdered over 100 people has been released from prison following 25 years behind bars.
Giovanni Brusca, 64, was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life imprisonment after a life of working as the right-hand man for mafia boss Totò Riina.
However, in 2000, Brusca was given a reduced sentence after agreeing to help prosecutors and become an informant. His release from prison has sparked an outcry in Italy, despite it being required by law.
As reported by the Guardian, Enrico Letta, the leader of the center-left Democratic party, said the decision to release Brusca “is a punch in the stomach that leaves you breathless.” Meanwhile, Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League party, said: “After 25 years in prison, the mafia boss Giovanni Brusca is a free man. This is not the ‘justice’ that Italians deserve.”
Amongst Brusca’s most brutal crimes was the killing of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 11-year-old son of a mafia member who helped out the authorities. Di Matteo was kidnapped in 1993 as a result of his father going against the mafia and was held in a house for over two years before being strangled to death.
His body was then thrown into acid, with police calling the murder “one of the most heinous crimes in the history of the Cosa Nostra,” as reported by the Guardian.
Brusca was also responsible for killing Giovanni Falcone, the prosecuting magistrate who spent his life trying to bring down the mafia. Brusca detonated a bomb in 1992 in Palermo that killed Falcone, his wife, and three bodyguards.
Mario Falcone, sister of Giovanni, told ANSA that the news of Brusca’s release “pains” her but that the law of reducing sentences in return for mafiosos helping authorities was one that her brother wanted.
“Therefore it must be respected,” Falcone said. “I only hope the judiciary and police will be vigilant, with extreme attention, in order to avert the risk that he commit crimes again.”
Many relatives of Brusca’s victims do not believe he has repented for his crimes, nor do they feel he has ever told the full truth to authorities.
Luciano Traina, the police officer who arrested Brusca in Agrigentovilla in 1996, told Repubblica: “I will never forget the look on his face when we arrested him.”
Traina, who is the brother of another police officer who was killed by Cosa Nostra, continued: “I will never forgive him. Because I do not believe Brusca has ever told the whole truth.”
After deciding to collaborate with the authorities, Brusca’s information led to the arrest of other murderers and members of Cosa Nostra.
As reported by Repubblica, Brusca told prosecutors after he turned informant: “I’m an animal. I worked all my life for Cosa Nostra. I have killed more than 150 people. I can’t even remember all their names.”
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MY COMMENTS:
As a consequence in Italy the first pre-unitarian state to abolish the death penalty was the Grand Duchy of Tuscany as of November 30, 1786, under the reign of Pietro Leopoldo, later Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. So Tuscany was the first civil state in the world to do away with torture and capital punishment. Cities for Life Day was celebrated as a bank holiday in Tuscany until 2011, when it was removed under austerity measures.
Cities for Life Day, a worldwide festivity that supports the abolition of the death penalty. It is celebrated on November 30 of each year. Surprisingly, a mafia boss was released from serving life sentence in that country, Italy. It proves the point that any country that abolishes the death penalty, will abolish life sentences next.
Just like the State of Illinois, Ray Larsen among rising number of aged convicts to be released. He’d been doing 100 to 300 years after confessing he killed Frank Casolari, 16, in 1972. In recent years, Illinois has paroled a double ax-murderer, other heinous killers, too. The Italian people are outraged at the release of this Mafia Boss who claimed that he had murdered 150 people.
The next time, if any EU citizen dares to lecture your country on death penalty and life imprisonment. Tell them about this case. Do not be surprise if Brusca might reoffend again like Albert Flick, a 77-year-old man previously deemed "too old to be a threat" was sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing a woman in front of her children, four decades after he was convicted of a nearly identical crime. This is another great example of why Prisoner Rights Activists will remain silent as it is too extremely embarrassing for them to talk about recidivist killers.
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"If a man is a danger to the community, threatening it with disintegration by some wrongdoing of his, then his execution for the healing and preservation of the common good is to be commended. Only the public authority, not private persons, may licitly execute malefactors by public judgment. Men shall be sentenced to death for crimes of irreparable harm or which are particularly perverted."
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WHY ARE SO MANY ITALIANS IN FAVOR OF THE DEATH PENALTY?
Answering this question is important to analyze how everything that is extreme and violent is increasingly accepted and normalized.
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https://italicsmag.com/2021/05/20/why-are-so-many-italians-in-favor-of-the-death-penalty/