Francesca Morvillo – Wikipédia

Francesca Laura Morvillo-Falcone , born December 14, 1945 in Palermo and Dead murdered in the same city the May 23, 1992 , is an Italian magistrate. Wife of the antimafia judge Giovanni Falcone, she is the victim with the latter of an attack perpetrated by the Cosa Nostra in Capaco.

Francesca LAurais Erura LING LE December 14, 1945 In Sicily in a Palermitian family of lawyers whose father, Guido Drillo, is an assistant prosecutor of Palermo. She obtained a law degree from the University of Palermo in 1967 after a thesis on ” The rule of law and security measures », Housed as best thesis in criminal disciplines for the 1966-1967 academic year, for which she obtained congratulations from the jury.

In the footsteps of her father and like her brother Alfredo, she engaged in a career as a magistrate and sits as a judge in the Agrigental court, then, from 1972, for sixteen years at the Miners of Palermo where she deployed A noticed commitment ^{[ first ]} . She is appointed president of the City Court of Appeal and teaches legal issues for the pediatric section of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Palermo. Shortly before her death, she was appointed to Rome member of the Commission examining access to the judiciary.

After her separation from a first husband in 1979, Francesca Morvillo met Giovanni Falcone then an investigating judge in Palermo. They formalize their union in May 1986 and, target of Cosa Nostra who forced them to live in a permanent siege, marry during a confidential ceremony ^{[ first ]} .

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Monument to the memory of the five victims of the capacity massacre

Giovanni Falcone intends to set up an Antimafia and Cosa Nostra brigade-partly shaken by the Maxi-Procès de Palermo-decides to end him, despite the high degree of protection from which he benefits. For months, members of the Toto Riina mafia clan dig under the A29 motorway connecting Punta Raisi airport (renowned since PALERME FALCONE-BORSELLINO International Airport ) in Palermo, up to the town of Capacic, to place explosives there ^{[ 2 ]} .

The May 23, 1992 , Giovanni Brusca blows up 500 kilos of explosives on the passage of the convoy of the judge and his wife. Both transported to the municipal hospital in Palermo, they die there an hour later, like what had happened to the Dalla Chiesa couple in 1982.

The 13 November 1992 , the Italian Republic posthumously attributes the gold value of the civil value ( Gold Medal for Civil Valor ) ^{[ 3 ]} .

In 1993, the Fondation Marisa Bellisario decides to award a price in his memory, a prize “to honor life, in the sense of the constant commitment and courage” ^{[ 4 ]} .

Place of memory, Palermo

Created December 10, 1992 By Les Familles Falcone and Morvillo, The Fondation Giovanni Falcone and Francesca Morvillo is recognized by the United Nations as an advisory non -governmental organization with the United Nations Economic and Social Council since 1996 ^{[ 5 ]} .

A reception center for minors delinquent ^{[ 6 ]} as well as several schools bear its name and it appears on the memory square Who honors, before the Palermo courthouse, the magistrates murdered by the mafia.

Articles [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• (in) Renate Siebert, Living under siege. In memory of Francesca Morvillo , sur le site ECPR Standing Group Organised Crime, May 2002 , online article

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• (in) Renate Siebert, Secrets of Life and Death : Women and the Mafia , ed. Verso, 1998
• (in) Renate Siebert, Living under siege. In memory of Francesca Morvillo , sur le site ECPR Standing Group Organised Crime, May 2002