Giuseppe Ayala
Encyclopedia
Giuseppe Ayala is an Italian
politician and magistrate.
A member of the Democratic Alliance
and Italian Republican Party
in the 1990s before he joined the Democrats of the Left
in 1998. He was known as an "anti-Mafia
" magistrate, and had functioned as an "anti-Mafia" judge. He raised doubts about whether it was only the mafia that was involved in the killing of Giovanni Falcone
.
In 1993 he published a book entitled La guerra dei giusti: I giudici, la mafia, la politica (The war of the righteous: The judges, the mafia, politics), detailing his experiences in politics and his encounters with the mafia.
Italy
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politician and magistrate.
A member of the Democratic Alliance
Democratic Alliance (Italy)
The Democratic Alliance was an Italian political party founded in 1993, with the intent of becoming the container of an alliance of centre-left forces. However, the project did not succeed, and it presented itself as a minor party, mainly composed of former Republicans and former Communists...
and Italian Republican Party
Italian Republican Party
The Italian Republican Party is a liberal political party in Italy.The PRI is party with old roots that originally took a left-wing position, claiming descent from the political position of Giuseppe Mazzini...
in the 1990s before he joined the Democrats of the Left
Democrats of the Left
The Democrats of the Left was a social-democratic Italian political party and part of the Olive Tree electoral coalition, which merged with a number of centrist and leftist groups to form the Democratic Party on 14 October 2007...
in 1998. He was known as an "anti-Mafia
Mafia
The Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...
" magistrate, and had functioned as an "anti-Mafia" judge. He raised doubts about whether it was only the mafia that was involved in the killing of Giovanni Falcone
Giovanni Falcone
Giovanni Falcone was an Sicilian/Italian prosecuting magistrate born in Palermo, Sicily. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Mafia in Sicily...
.
In 1993 he published a book entitled La guerra dei giusti: I giudici, la mafia, la politica (The war of the righteous: The judges, the mafia, politics), detailing his experiences in politics and his encounters with the mafia.
External links
- Official homepage of Giuseppe Ayala (in Italian)