A notorious Sicilian mafia figure known as “U Scannacristiani” or “The People-Slayer” has been released from prison, sparking outrage in Italy.
Giovanni Brusca, 64, confessed to murdering more than 100 people including Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 14-year-old son of a mafia informant.
He also supplied investigators with information on several deadly Cosa Nostra attacks carried out in the 1980s and 1990s and testified in a trial over alleged negotiations between Italian officials and mobsters to stop the bombings. Although her brother would have wanted the law — and therefore, Brusca’s release — to be respected, she said, the families of Brusca’s victims would have to contend with “the pain, the anger and the fear that an individual capable of so much evil could go back to crime.”
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