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At the forum "Young and Committed", Commissioner Iván Velásquez called upon the youth to join forces in fighting impunity.

The murder of Judge Falcone by the Mafia: 20 years without an answer
(An extract taken and translated from the newspaper El País, Spain)

Spain. In the summer of 1984, Giovanni Falcone listened to Tommaso Buscetta, "the boss of two worlds", for 45 consecutive days. Buscetta was the key figure of the Cosa Nostra as far as drug trafficking between Sicily and the US was concerned. The two of them were alone in an underground cell in Rome—by that time, Falcone no longer trusted anybody. The boss spoke and the judge wrote 329 pages of confessions with a fountain pen. The mythical Buscetta became the first major informant in the Sicilian Mafia. He provided names, spoke of the divisions between the families and reconstructed old, unresolved crimes for the judge. At the end, before leaving, the mafioso, 56, gave the judge a warning.

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