Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were Italian prosecuting magistrates who inflicted great harm on the Sicilian mafia and by way of revenge, an attempt to stop further harm and, probably, as an example to others, both were killed in separate explosions a few months apart in 1992. In Falcone’s case, the explosion was so great that it registered on the national earthquake monitoring system. Such was the public outrage at these assassinations a photograph of the two colleagues in conversation, taken by Tony Gentile ( in 1992) became an iconic…
