- Title: ITALY: LEADING ANTI-MAFIA JUDGE AND BODYGUARDS KILLED BY BOMB IN PALERMO
- Date: 19th July 1992
- Summary: PALERMO, SICILY, ITALY (JULY 19, 1992/RECENT) JULY 19 1. GV ZOOM IN TO SV: REMAINS OF CARS BURNING IN STREET AS FIREMEN DOUSE FLAMES 0.08 2. GV PAN/SV TRACKING SHOT: DESTROYED CARS WITH RESCUE WORKERS AND STRETCHER TEAM (3 SHOTS) 0.31 3. GV PAN: BODIES COVERED BY SHEET 0.35 4. GV ZOOM OUT AND PAN: DAMAGED BLOCK OF FLATS 0.43 5. SV/SCU: DESTROYED AND SMOKING CARS (2 SHOTS) 0.48 6. CU ZOOM OUT AND TILT UP: CRATER IN ROAD AND DAMAGE TO BLOCK OF FLATS NEARBY 0.56 7. HIGH ANGLE SV ZOOM OUT TO GV: VIEW OF SCENE OF BOMBING FROM FLATS 1.02 RECENT 8. GVS AND SCUS: BORSELLINO ON SCREEN ON TELEVISION PROGRAMME SPEAKING ABOUT HOW HIS INVESTIGATIONS AND THOSE OF COLLEAGUE FALCONE STARTED TO TAKE CONVERGING PATHS AND THEY REALISED THEY WERE INVESTIGATING THE SAME PEOPLE (ITALIAN) (4 SHOTS) 1.34 9. STILL PHOTOGRAPH OF FALCONE 1.37 10. STILL PHOTOGRAPH OF BORSELLINO 1.40 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: PALERMO, SICILY, ITALY
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- Country: Italy
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- Story Text:A car-bomb killed leading anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and five bodyguards in the Sicilian capital, Palermo, on Sunday (July 19).
Borsellino, the chief public prosecutor in Palermo, was a close colleague of Italy's leading anti-Mafia fighter, Giovanni Falcone, who was killed with his wife and three bodyguards by a bomb outside Palermo on May 23.
The Italian news agency, ANSA, said some of Borsellino's colleagues recognised his body at the scene of the blast which hit his car and two armoured cars in his escort.
Those killed included Emanuela Loi, a female bodyguard of Borsellino's. Her body was found several metres (yards) away in a garden of a ground-floor flat. ANSA named the other slain bodyguards as Agostino Catalano, Walter Cusina, Claudio Traina and Vincenzo Limuli.
The Italian news agency reported 15 injured in the blast, which occurred when a car packed with dynamite went off outside a block of flats as the judge arrived at his mother and sister's home.
Prime Minister Giuliano Amato vowed that the state's current campaign against the Mafia would carry on. He pledged a strong response to those "at war with the state".
After Falcone's death, the Sicilian-born Borsellino was widely tipped as a frontrunner to head a new anti-Mafia judicial authority planned by the Rome government. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS - SOURCE TO BE VERIFIED
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