FILE PHOTO: Anti-Mafia police wearing masks to hide their identity, escort top Mafia fugitive Giovani Brusca May 21 as he leaves Palermo's police headquarters to be taken to a maximum security prison. Brusca, accused of mastermining the highway bombing that killed anti-mob judge Giovanni Falcone along with his wife and three bodyguards on May 23, 1992, and is also beleived to have succeeded Salvatore "Toto" Rina as the Mafia's boss of bosses, was arrested with his brother Vincenzo/File Photo
ROME (Reuters) - Sicilian Mafia turncoat Giovanni Brusca, the man who detonated the bomb that killed judge Giovanni Falcone in 1992, has been released from jail after serving a 25-year sentence, causing grief and anger among the relatives of those he killed.
Brusca, 64, was arrested in 1996, four years after the attack that killed Falcone, his wife and three policeman. After turning state turncoat he helped prosecutors in their crackdown against the Cosa Nostra clans.
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