US EditionJailed Gangland Killer on Streets 'Unsupervised' in 'Sign of Full Release Soon'
- Giovanni Brusca, a mafia boss responsible for the 1992 killing of prosecutor Giovanni Falcone, was released from jail in 2021 after serving 25 years.
- Brusca's release followed his cooperation under witness laws and probation, though ongoing trials and controversy continue nearly 33 years after Falcone's murder.
- Brusca remains under witness protection, living under a false identity outside Sicily, while victim families express bitterness and call this release unjust.
- Tina Montinaro, widow of Falcone’s bodyguard, expressed her profound disappointment despite acknowledging that Brusca’s release was legally justified.
- Separately, Christopher 'Smokey' Costello, a convicted Limerick gangland killer, regularly receives unsupervised temporary release, indicating a possible full release soon.
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Jailed gangland killer on streets 'unsupervised' in 'sign of full release soon'
ONE of the country’s most notorious gangland killers is getting temporary release from prison amid claims he could soon be back walking the streets of Limerick. Christopher ‘Smokey’ Costello, 42, a member of the McCarthy-Dundon gang, is currently serving a life sentence at Shelton Abbey in Co Wicklow for the murder of rival gang boss Kieran Keane in Limerick in 2003. Christopher ‘Smokey’ Costello enjoys looking around the local shops on his temp…
The former mob boss who launched the remote control in Capaci has finished serving his sentence thanks to the benefits for the collaborators. But it is the law that may have made his time. Disdained are the relatives of the victims of the massacres.Or the Christian ScannaChristians is free and maybe votes to referendums to reaffirm that he is a ...
The notorious and extremely bloodthirsty Sicilian mafia boss Giovanni Brusca (68) has been completely free since Thursday. He was undoubtedly one of the most brutal mafiosi Italy has ever known.
Giovanni Brusca , a bloodthirsty mafioso chief, who acted with a telecomando the detonator who killed the famous anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone , his wife Francesca Morvillo and three agents of his escort in the Capaci massacre, in Sicily, on May 23, 1992, is today a free man. He was arrested in May 1996. He had served his sentence –30 years, reduced to 25 thanks to his good conduct – at the end of May 2021, and then spent 4 years of probatio…
On behalf of the Mafia, Giovanni Brusca killed more than 100 people – including the top lawyer Giovanni Falcone. Now his sentence is served.
On behalf of the Mafia he killed more than 100 people - also the top lawyer Giovanni Falcone. Now the punishment is served. The sister of the Mafia hunter expresses deep pain - and understanding.
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