# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-falcone
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:41:05.826Z

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name: "Giovanni Falcone"
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description: "He built the case that brought the Sicilian Mafia to trial — and paid for it on a motorway outside Palermo when half a ton of explosives tore through his convoy in 1992."
tagline: "Italian magistrate murdered by the Mafia (1939-1992)"
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birthDate: "1939-05-18"
deathDate: "1992-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Giovanni Falcone was born 18 May 1939 in Palermo, where he and his childhood friend Paolo Borsellino grew up in a neighbourhood thick with Mafia presence. From his office in the Palace of Justice, Falcone spent most of his professional life as a prosecuting magistrate dismantling the power structure of the Sicilian Mafia. The work culminated in the Maxi Trial of 1986–1987, a landmark prosecution that shook the organisation. On 23 May 1992, five days after his fifty-third birthday, the Corleonesi Mafia killed him in the Capaci bombing on the A29 motorway near Capaci. Borsellino was killed weeks later. Both men were awarded the Gold Medal for Civil Valor, acknowledged as martyrs of the Catholic Church, and named by Time in 2006 as heroes of the last sixty years.