19 July 1992

Sunday

1992-09-19

Events

 * Italian judge and magistrate Paolo Borsellino is killed by a Mafia car bomb near his mother's house in Palermo, Italy. He was 52 years old. Five police officers, part of Borsellino's escort were also killed. The assassination came just 57 days after fellow anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone had also been murdered by a mafia bomb while travelling in his car near Capaci, Sicily on 23 May 1992. (wikipedia)