Video column: Casa di Falcone e Borsellino

by Martin Veeger November 13, 2014, 10:00 am 4.3 k views

Italy correspondent Maarten Veeger is still on Asinara, the prison island close to Sardinia. Today, he and a former guard visit the house where the anti-mafia judges Falcone and Borsellino stayed in the XNUMXs. From this highly secured place they prepared their successful campaign against major mafia leaders.

After the attack on their lives in 1992, the 'boss of bosses' Totò Riina also came to the island. The aim was to remove him as far and as isolated as possible from his former work site. Today both the prison complex and the 'Casa di Falcone e Borsellino' can be visited.

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Written by Martin Veeger

After a short career at an international bank, Maarten Veeger found out that his main aim was to be a journalist. And started writing for the editorial board of the Financieele Dagblad in Amsterdam. He has now been a multimedia correspondent in Italy for over ten years. He mainly works for Het Financieele Dagblad, BNR Radio, RTL Boulevard and sports productions for the NOS. In Italy he makes videos for La Stampa, among others. He wrote four books about his homeland, is married and has two daughters.