Article 5JGPV Anger as notorious Sicilian mafioso the ‘people-slayer’ freed

Anger as notorious Sicilian mafioso the ‘people-slayer’ freed

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Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo
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Giovanni Brusca was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life for more than 100 murders

One of the Sicilian mafia's most notorious killers, believed to have murdered more than 100 people, has been released from prison after 25 years.

Giovanni Brusca, 64, nicknamed the swine" or u scannacristiani" (the people-slayer), who set off the explosive that the killed anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone in 1992, is a now a free man. He also ordered the strangling of an 11-year-old boy, whose body was dissolved in acid.

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