Falcone eventually loses his patience with the Riddler, however, and orders his daughter, Sophia, to force him to leave.

Multiple attacks on organized crime by the Joker are perpetrated, and he eventually assaults the Falcone estate, attacking the members of the family before being apprehended by Batman.

Falcone wanted a naval career but his father thought him too independent minded for the armed forces, and sent him to study law.

Graduating in 1961, Falcone began to practice law before being appointed a judge in 1964.

Afterwards he would appear as a law enforcement official in a number of other films and TV productions dealing with organized crime, including a semi-biographical movie about Giovanni Falcone, where he acted as the titular judge.

Falcone received an effusive congratulatory phone call from Giulio Andreotti after the narrow escape.

Only after the murders on Antimafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, in 1992, did Buscetta decide to talk about the links between the Mafia and politicians.

He was killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, 57 days after his friend and fellow Antimafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone was assassinated.

In 1987, after Caponnetto resigned due to illness, Borsellino was protagonist of a great protest about the unsuccessful nomination of his friend Giovanni Falcone as head of the Antimafia Pool.

Giovanni Brusca later claimed that ' boss of bosses ' Salvatore Riina had told him that after the assassination of Falcone, there were indirect negotiations with the government.

On July 19, 1992, Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D ' Amelio, near his mother's house in Palermo, less than two months after the death of his good friend Falcone.

Spatuzza claims that his boss, Giuseppe Graviano, told him in 1994 that future Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was bargaining with the Mafia, concerning a political-electoral agreement between Cosa Nostra and Berlusconi ’ s party Forza Italia, in exchange for certain guarantees – such as to stop the 1993 Mafia bomb terror campaign, to force state institutions to moderate their crackdown against the Mafia after the murders of Antimafia magistrates Falcone and Borsellino.

The alleged negotiations between Dell ’ Utri and the Mafia followed an earlier attempt with Vito Ciancimino, the local political link for the Corleonesi clan, who supposedly had contacted government officials after the killing of Falcone to negotiate a stop to the killing spree.

One storyline ( Batman: The Long Halloween, # 12 ) involves Grundy and a newly-disfigured Harvey Dent striking up an odd friendship after Dent escapes to the sewers to plot his revenge on Carmine Falcone.

Jos then stabs Falcone to death on deck, after which he is taken back to the Macedon under Captain Azarcon's protection.

Falcone got the gem, but not long after that, his ship blew up and sent him down into a moat.

Provenzano proposed a new, less violent Mafia strategy instead of the terrorist bombing campaign in 1993 against the state to get them to back off in their crackdown against the Mafia after the murders of prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

Giovanni Brusca – one of Riina's hitmen who personally detonated the bomb that killed Falcone, and later became an informant after his 1996 arrest – has offered a controversial version of the capture of Totò Riina: a secret deal between Carabinieri officers, secret agents and Cosa Nostra bosses tired of the dictatorship of the Corleonesi.

He was involved in the campaign of terror in 1993 against the state to get them to back off in their crackdown against the Mafia after the murders of Anti-mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

Brusca had received a life sentence the previous year after being convicted in absentia of murder and he was subsequently convicted of the bomb attack that killed the Anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone near Capaci.

Brusca also claimed that Riina had told him that after the assassination of Falcone, he had been in indirect negotiations with interior minister Nicola Mancino on a deal to prevent any further killings.

In Christopher Nolan's 2005 film Batman Begins, Batman initially ' improvises ' a Bat-Signal by draping crime boss Carmine Falcone over a spotlight at the docks after defeating him, his shredded and spread-out coat making the light look like a bat.

Buscetta only revealed facts about the relations between mafiosi and politicians after judge Giovanni Falcone was killed in 1992.

However, in " Life after Death ", he is targeted by both the National Guard and the returning Falcone crime family, led by Mario Falcone, forcing him to retreat to an area in Gotham called Devil's Square.

Palermo Anno Uno was founded after the massive demonstrations all over Sicily following the murder of Giovanni Falcone in May 1992.

The Holton Falcone Model baritone horn, developed at the end of the 1970s with input from the namesake of the Leonard Falcone International Tuba and Euphonium Festival was dropped after only a short run when Leonard Falcone refused to endorse or play on the production version.

In the major crackdown against the Mafia following Falcone and Borsellino's deaths, Riina was arrested on January 15, 1993, and is now serving a life sentence for sanctioning the murders of both magistrates as well as many other crimes.

Salvatore Riina, the head of the Corleonesi Mafia Family, is now serving a life sentence in prison for sanctioning the murders of Borsellino and Falcone, as well as Bernardo Provenzano, Pippo Calò, Salvatore Biondino, Pietro Aglieri, Michelangelo La Barbera, Raffaele and Domenico Ganci, Francesco Madonia, Giuseppe Montalto, Giuseppe and Filippo Graviano, Carlo Greco, Francesco Tagliavia, amongst others.

After serving 14 years in prison, Chill makes a deal to be released and put on parole in return for testimony against Gotham mob boss Carmine Falcone, with whom he had shared a prison cell.

Falcone was born in 1939 to a middle-class family in the Via Castrofilippo near the seaport district La Kalsa, a neighborhood of central Palermo which suffered extensive destruction by aerial attacks during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.

* 1939 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian magistrate and Mafia victim ( d. 1992 )

Giovanni Falcone ( Palermo, 18 May 1939 – Palermo, 23 May 1992 ) was an Italian prosecuting magistrate born in Palermo, Sicily.

Falcone was plagued by a chronic lack of resources in his capacity as magistrate.

* In 2006 a two-episode TV movie was broadcast by Italian state television RAI, dedicated to the magistrate, starring Massimo Dapporto as Falcone and Elena Sofia Ricci as his wife Francesca Morvillo.

In 1984, the Mafia turncoat Tommaso Buscetta revealed to the anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone that the term was used by the Sicilian Mafia as well.

The killing of anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone prompted his election.

According to Giovanni Falcone, the investigating magistrate, the group had made about US $ 600 million.

According to Giovanni Falcone, the investigating magistrate who was assigned the investigation into heroin trafficking case, estimated that by the late 1970s the Inzerillo-Gambino-Spatola network was smuggling US $ 600 million worth of heroin into the US each year.

* Major characters like Commissioner Loeb, Detective Flass and Carmine ' The Roman ' Falcone who are featured prominently in Batman Begins.

* Tying Falcone up: In the graphic novel Batman ties The Roman in his own house ; in the film, he ties The Roman to a searchlight.

On October 4, 1973, he published his first work, a manga adaptation of Prosper Merimee's short novel Mateo Falcone, titled A Gun Report.

* 1992 – Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily.

Prosper Mérimée wrote Mateo Falcone in 1829.

* 23 May 1992 – Able to a violent explosion on Autostrada A29 ( Italy ) section between the ' Punta Raisi Airport and Palermo, caused by the Mafia, causing the death of Judge Giovanni Falcone, a hero in the fight against organized crime.

* May 23 – A Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.

** Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge ( b. 1939 )

These include the Carabinieri general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the region ’ s president Piersanti Mattarella, Padre Pino Puglisi, a priest who had fought for the young people living in the suburbs, and courageous magistrates such as Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

Giovanni Falcone.

His father, Arturo Falcone, the director of a provincial chemical laboratory, was married to Luisa Bentivegna.

At school Falcone would get into fights with larger children if he thought his friends were being picked on.

As boys Falcone and Borsellino, who was born in the same neighbourhood, played soccer together on the Piazza Mangione.

Both Falcone and Borsellino met again at Palermo University.

While Falcone drifted away from his parents middle-class conservative Catholicism towards Communism, Borsellino was religious and conservative, in his youth he had been a member of the Fronte Universitario d ' Azione Nazionale ( FUAN ), a right-wing university organization affiliated with the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano.

In early 1980, Falcone joined the ‘ Office of Instruction ’ ( Ufficio istruzione ), the investigative branch of the Prosecution Office of Palermo.

Chinnici appointed Falcone to investigate the case, one of the biggest Antimafia operations in more than a decade.

Falcone was given bodyguards the next day.

In this tense ambiance, Falcone introduced an innovative investigative technique in the Spatola investigation, seizing bank records to follow " the money trail " created by heroin deals to build his case, applying the skills he had learned unraveling bankruptcies.