What were Clean Hands and the mafia massacres in Italy?

Clean Hands and the mafia massacres

Mani pulite e le stragi di mafia

17 February 1992. On 17 February 1992 Milan magistrates arrested Mario Chiesa, the Socialist head of a city care home, as he took a bribe.

Where: Italy

What happened

On 17 February 1992 Milan magistrates arrested Mario Chiesa, the Socialist head of a city care home, as he took a bribe. The investigation, Mani pulite, uncovered a system of kickbacks paying for the parties, Tangentopoli, and within two years the parties that had governed since the war had collapsed. In the same year the Sicilian mafia murdered the judges Giovanni Falcone, with his wife and three bodyguards, at Capaci on 23 May, and Paolo Borsellino, with five bodyguards, in Via D'Amelio on 19 July. The massacres shocked the country and hardened the fight against the mafia.

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Falcone e Borsellino sono due simboli della lotta alla mafia.

Falcone and Borsellino are two symbols of the fight against the mafia.

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