Literature amid lies
The dossier, first compiled in the 1990s, is seen by Borsellino’s family as the missing link that may explain why he was killed only 57 days after Falcone and who gave the orders. This decision has reignited Italy’s unresolved debate over how far the Mafia were enabled by collusion between organised crime, business, banking, the Church and the State. This is mainly down to the release in February of biographer Caroline Moorehead’s A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul.
- ▪The dossier, first compiled in the 1990s, is seen by Borsellino’s family as the missing link that may explain why he was killed only 57 days after Falcone and who gave the orders.
- ▪This decision has reignited Italy’s unresolved debate over how far the Mafia were enabled by collusion between organised crime, business, banking, the Church and the State.
- ▪This is mainly down to the release in February of biographer Caroline Moorehead’s A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul.
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| Original publisher | The Critic |
| Canonical URL | https://thecritic.co.uk/literature-amid-lies/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 24 May 2026 01:00:04 +0000 |
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In April, the Caltanissetta Public Prosecutor’s Office asked the investigating judge to archive the “mafia and public contracts” branch of the long-running probe into the 1992 bombings that killed anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino that marked the bloody apex of Cosa Nostra’s decades-long war on the Italian state. The dossier, first compiled in the 1990s, is seen by Borsellino’s family as the missing link that may explain why he was killed only 57 days after Falcone and who gave the orders. This decision has reignited Italy’s unresolved debate over how far the Mafia were enabled by collusion between organised crime, business, banking, the Church and the State.
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