Capaci bombing

Capaci bombing
Capaci bombing
	Aerial view of the bombing site on Highway A29
Location	Capaci, Sicily, Italy
Coordinates	38°10′58″N 13°14′41″E
Date	23 May 1992 ; 5:58 PM
Target	Giovanni Falcone
Attack type	Assassination
Weapons	explosives (Semtex and TNT)
Deaths	5
Injured	23
Perpetrators	Salvatore Riina, Bernardo Provenzano, Michele Greco, Pietro Aglieri, Francesco Madonia, Giuseppe Calò, Bernardo Brusca, Filippo and Giuseppe Graviano, Antonino Geraci, Benedetto Spera, Nino Giuffrè, Michelangelo La Barbera, Salvatore and Giuseppe Montalto, Matteo Motisi, Giuseppe Farinella, Salvatore Buscemi, Mariano Agate, Benedetto Santapaola, Giuseppe "Piddu" Madonia, Matteo Messina Denaro (principals); Giovanni Brusca, Pietro Rampulla, Santino Di Matteo, Gioacchino La Barbera, Antonino Gioè, Giovan Battista Ferrante, Salvatore Biondo, Salvatore Biondino, Antonino Troia, Giovanni Battaglia, Leoluca Bagarella, Salvatore Cancemi, Antonino Galliano, Calogero and Raffaele Ganci (material executors);
Motive	Retaliation against the anti-mafia fight

The Capaci bombing (Italian: Strage di Capaci) was a terror attack by the Sicilian Mafia that took place on 23 May 1992 on Highway A29, close to the junction of Capaci, Sicily. It killed magistrate Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo, and three police escort agents, Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo and Antonio Montinaro; agents Paolo Capuzza, Angelo Corbo, Gaspare Bravo and Giuseppe Costanza survived.

Salvatore Cancemi, who later turned pentito, described the Mafia's victory celebration that followed the Capaci bombing; Totò Riina ordered champagne while they toasted. Santino Di Matteo, who also later turned pentito, revealed all the details of the assassination: who tunnelled beneath the motorway, who packed the 13 drums with TNT and Semtex, who hauled them into place on a skateboard, and who pressed the button.

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