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Today in History: Car Bomb Kills Anti-Mafia Judge Borsellino, Five Officers

7/19/2026

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On 19 July 1992, a car bomb detonated on Via D’Amelio in Palermo, killing anti-Mafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino and five police officers escorting him. The attack, carried out by the Sicilian Mafia, came less than two months after the Capaci bombing that murdered his colleague, judge Giovanni Falcone.

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On 19 July 1992, a car bomb detonated on Via D’Amelio in Palermo, killing anti-Mafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino and five police officers escorting him. The attack, carried out by the Sicilian Mafia, came less than two months after the Capaci bombing that murdered his colleague, judge Giovanni Falcone.