Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Falcone" id="mw8g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Giovanni Falcone">Giovanni Falcone</a>, his wife and three body guards are killed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corleonesi_Mafia_clan" id="mw8w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Corleonesi Mafia clan">Corleonesi clan</a> with a half-ton bomb near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capaci" id="mw9A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Capaci">Capaci</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicily" id="mw9Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>. His friend and colleague <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Borsellino" id="mw9g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Paolo Borsellino">Paolo Borsellino</a> will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia" id="mw9w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sicilian Mafia">Italian Mafia</a> prosecutions.