MAFIA BOSS: GIOVANNI BRUSCA PAROLED FROM PRISON

            On this date, May 31, 2021, Italian Mafia Boss, Giovanni Brusca was released. Amid public backlash, politicians Matteo Salvini of the Lega Nord and Enrico Letta of the Democratic Party were also critical of the decision to release Brusca.

            I will post information about this Mafia Boss from Wikipedia and other links before giving my comments.

Brusca was arrested in 1996.

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Giovanni Brusca (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni ˈbruska]; born 20 February 1957) is an Italian mobster and former member of the Corleonesi clan of the Sicilian Mafia. He had a major role in the 1992 murders of Antimafia Commission prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and businessman Ignazio Salvo, and once stated that he had committed between 100 and 200 murders. Brusca had been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for Mafia association and multiple murder. He was captured in 1996, turned pentito, and his sentence reduced to 26 years in prison. In 2021, Brusca was released from prison.

A pudgy, bearded and unkempt mafioso, Brusca was known in Mafia circles as 'u verru (in Sicilian) or il porco or il maiale (in Italian; "the pig", "the swine") or 'u scannacristiani ("the people-slayer"; in the Sicilian language the word cristianu means both "Christian" and "human being"). Tommaso Buscetta, the Mafia turncoat who had cooperated with Falcone’s investigations, remembered Giovanni Brusca as "a wild stallion but a great leader."

INTERNET SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Brusca

Anger as notorious Sicilian mafioso the ‘people-slayer’ is freed

Giovanni Brusca was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life for more than 100 murders

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Those who allow violent criminals the opportunity to kill, maim and rape, share the responsibility for it and the tragedy such crimes produce. More, they allow these monsters to create for all of us a world as dark and evil as their own.

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The release of an infamous Sicilian mafia killer dubbed 'the people slayer' sparks an outcry in Italy

Jacob Sarkisian

Jun 5, 2021, 10:44 AM

• Giovanni Brusca was arrested in 1996.
• Giovanni Brusca is believed to have killed over 100 people.
• Brusca was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• However, he received a reduced sentence after agreeing to colloborate with authorities.

A member of the Sicilian mafia who is believed to have murdered over 100 people has been released from prison following 25 years behind bars.

Giovanni Brusca, 64, was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to life imprisonment after a life of working as the right-hand man for mafia boss Totò Riina.

However, in 2000, Brusca was given a reduced sentence after agreeing to help prosecutors and become an informant. His release from prison has sparked an outcry in Italy, despite it being required by law.

As reported by the Guardian, Enrico Letta, the leader of the center-left Democratic party, said the decision to release Brusca “is a punch in the stomach that leaves you breathless.” Meanwhile, Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League party, said: “After 25 years in prison, the mafia boss Giovanni Brusca is a free man. This is not the ‘justice’ that Italians deserve.”

Amongst Brusca’s most brutal crimes was the killing of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 11-year-old son of a mafia member who helped out the authorities. Di Matteo was kidnapped in 1993 as a result of his father going against the mafia and was held in a house for over two years before being strangled to death.

His body was then thrown into acid, with police calling the murder “one of the most heinous crimes in the history of the Cosa Nostra,” as reported by the Guardian.

Brusca was also responsible for killing Giovanni Falcone, the prosecuting magistrate who spent his life trying to bring down the mafia. Brusca detonated a bomb in 1992 in Palermo that killed Falcone, his wife, and three bodyguards.

Mario Falcone, sister of Giovanni, told ANSA that the news of Brusca’s release “pains” her but that the law of reducing sentences in return for mafiosos helping authorities was one that her brother wanted.

“Therefore it must be respected,” Falcone said. “I only hope the judiciary and police will be vigilant, with extreme attention, in order to avert the risk that he commit crimes again.”

Many relatives of Brusca’s victims do not believe he has repented for his crimes, nor do they feel he has ever told the full truth to authorities.

Luciano Traina, the police officer who arrested Brusca in Agrigentovilla in 1996, told Repubblica: “I will never forget the look on his face when we arrested him.”

Traina, who is the brother of another police officer who was killed by Cosa Nostra, continued: “I will never forgive him. Because I do not believe Brusca has ever told the whole truth.”

After deciding to collaborate with the authorities, Brusca’s information led to the arrest of other murderers and members of Cosa Nostra.

As reported by Repubblica, Brusca told prosecutors after he turned informant: “I’m an animal. I worked all my life for Cosa Nostra. I have killed more than 150 people. I can’t even remember all their names.”

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MY COMMENTS:

            As a consequence in Italy the first pre-unitarian state to abolish the death penalty was the Grand Duchy of Tuscany as of November 30, 1786, under the reign of Pietro Leopoldo, later Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. So Tuscany was the first civil state in the world to do away with torture and capital punishment. Cities for Life Day was celebrated as a bank holiday in Tuscany until 2011, when it was removed under austerity measures.

            Cities for Life Day, a worldwide festivity that supports the abolition of the death penalty. It is celebrated on November 30 of each year. Surprisingly, a mafia boss was released from serving life sentence in that country, Italy. It proves the point that any country that abolishes the death penalty, will abolish life sentences next.

            Just like the State of Illinois, Ray Larsen among rising number of aged convicts to be released. He’d been doing 100 to 300 years after confessing he killed Frank Casolari, 16, in 1972. In recent years, Illinois has paroled a double ax-murderer, other heinous killers, too. The Italian people are outraged at the release of this Mafia Boss who claimed that he had murdered 150 people.

            The next time, if any EU citizen dares to lecture your country on death penalty and life imprisonment. Tell them about this case. Do not be surprise if Brusca might reoffend again like Albert Flick,       a 77-year-old man previously deemed "too old to be a threat" was sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing a woman in front of her children, four decades after he was convicted of a nearly identical crime. This is another great example of why Prisoner Rights Activists will remain silent as it is too extremely embarrassing for them to talk about recidivist killers.

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"If a man is a danger to the community, threatening it with disintegration by some wrongdoing of his, then his execution for the healing and preservation of the common good is to be commended.  Only the public authority, not private persons, may licitly execute malefactors by public judgment. Men shall be sentenced to death for crimes of irreparable harm or which are particularly perverted."

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 11; 65-2; 66-6. http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2016/01/saint-thomas-aquinas-on-death-penalty.html

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 11; 65-2; 66-6.

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http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2019/10/in-loving-memory-of-desiree-mariottini.html

WHY ARE SO MANY ITALIANS IN FAVOR OF THE DEATH PENALTY?

Answering this question is important to analyze how everything that is extreme and violent is increasingly accepted and normalized.

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https://italicsmag.com/2021/05/20/why-are-so-many-italians-in-favor-of-the-death-penalty/

 

VIRGINIA RAPE SUSPECT, IBRAHIM BOUAICHI RELEASED AND KILLED HIS ACCUSER

Bouaichi’s release from jail and the slaying of Dominguez represent a tragic side effect of the pandemic. As the coronavirus erupted in America, civil liberties advocates called for the release of large numbers of prisoners from jails and prisons in order to keep them from being infected and possibly dying in necessarily confined spaces.

 Using Covid-19 as an excuse to free prisoners from jails, the ACLU now had blood on their hands for causing the death of a woman and many others.

   

Released prisoner accused of raping, killing Virginia woman has died

Ibrahim Bouaichi shot himself as police closed in on him Wednesday

By

Tom Jackman

August 9, 2020 at 8:33 a.m. GMT+8

A man accused of murdering an Alexandria woman, who had accused him of sexually assaulting her last fall, died Saturday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound that occurred as police tried to arrest him again on Wednesday. The man’s family issued a statement Saturday night saying they were grieving the loss of both lives.

Ibrahim E. Bouaichi, 33, had reportedly been in a relationship with Karla E. Dominguez, 31, before an allegedly violent incident in Dominguez’s Alexandria apartment on Oct. 10. Dominguez told police that Bouaichi broke into her apartment and sexually assaulted her. Bouaichi was charged with six felony counts, turned himself in to the Alexandria jail on Oct. 21, and was ordered held without bond.

Bouaichi maintained his innocence, and his lawyers pressed for a quick trial, but then the coronavirus pandemic struck and all trials were postponed. Bouaichi’s lawyers said visitation had been curtailed in the Alexandria jail, that they needed to meet with him before trial and that jails were potential coronavirus hot spots, although Alexandria’s jail had not had a case. They asked Alexandria Circuit Court Judge Nolan Dawkins to allow Bouaichi to post bond.

Released from jail at height of pandemic, Virginia rape suspect allegedly killed his accuser

On April 9, Dawkins agreed to set a secured bond for Bouaichi of $25,000, over Alexandria prosecutors’ objection. The judge ordered Bouaichi to stay in his Greenbelt home and not leave except to meet with his lawyers or pretrial services, and not to have any contact with Dominguez. The judge — who retired in June after 26 years and did not respond to a request for comment — did not order electronic monitoring for Bouaichi.

In early May, Greenbelt police found Bouaichi behind the wheel of his car at a Wendy’s restaurant drive-through, and they allege that he rammed one of their cruisers with his car. He was charged with multiple assault counts, drunken driving and multiple traffic charges, but was released on bond after one night in the Prince George’s County jail.

The Greenbelt incident would have triggered a motion from Alexandria prosecutors to revoke Bouaichi’s bond, Alexandria Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan L. Porter said. But no one notified Alexandria that Bouaichi had been arrested again.

On July 29, Dominguez was found shot to death outside her apartment on South Greenmount Drive, in the Town Square at Mark Center Apartments. Two days later, Alexandria police obtained a murder warrant for Bouaichi.

But when they went to arrest him, he was gone. After several days of fruitless searching, the police issued a news release Tuesday saying Bouaichi had been charged in Dominguez’s killing, and asking for the public’s help in locating him.

The next morning, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and Alexandria officers spotted Bouaichi’s car in Prince George’s County. As they moved in to arrest him, he shot himself, Alexandria police said.

He died Saturday at a local hospital, police said in a news release.

Bouaichi’s family released a statement Saturday evening: “Our brother and son Ibrahim died today, having taken his own life. We are incredibly saddened by Karla’s death and wish this tragedy had never happened. ... As we lay our son to rest, we ask for peace for everyone involved as we grieve our losses.”

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2020/08/08/released-prisoner-accused-raping-killing-virginia-woman-has-died/

Virginia rape suspect released over coronavirus concerns kills accuser: Police

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Monday, August 10, 2020

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A Virginia rape suspect who was released from jail due to coronavirus concerns killed his accuser before fatally shooting himself, police said Saturday.

Ibrahm Elkahlil Bouaichi, 33, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head following a car chase with police Wednesday in Prince George’s County, Maryland, police said in a statement. Bouaichi was accused of fatally shooting 31-year-old Karla Elizabeth Dominguez Gonzalez, the woman who accused him of sexual assault last year, outside her apartment in Arlington, Virginia, on July 29, ABC 7 reported.

Gonzalez testified against Bouaichi in Alexandria District Court in December. He was charged with six felonies, including rape, and jailed without bond. When the pandemic hit in March, Bouaichi’s lawyers argued he should be freed while awaiting trial out of safety concerns.

Bouaichi was released from jail on $25,000 bond on April 9. Alexandria Circuit Court Judge Nolan Dawkins, who retired in June, ordered Bouaichi to stay in his Greenbelt home except when meeting with his lawyers or during pretrial services, but he did not order electronic monitoring for the suspect, The Washington Post reported.

Gonzalez was notified of his release the same day, according to the Alexandria Sheriff’s office.

Her death marked the first homicide in Arlington this year. A GoFundMe page set up for her family surpassed $10,000 Monday.

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Released from jail at height of pandemic, Alexandria rape suspect allegedly killed his accuser. Ibrahim Bouaichi then shot himself as police closed in Wednesday, leaving him in critical condition

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77-YEAR-OLD ALBERT FLICK MURDERED AGAIN FORTY YEARS LATER

           On this date, August 9, 2019, Albert Flick, a 77-year-old man previously deemed "too old to be a threat" was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for fatally stabbing a woman in front of her children, four decades after he was convicted of a nearly identical crime.

            This is another great example of why Prisoner Rights Activists will remain silent as it is too extremely embarrassing for them to talk about recidivist killers. 

Albert Flick was convicted of killing Kimberly Dobbie, 48, years after he murdered his wife

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He was deemed too old to be dangerous. Now, at 77, he’s been convicted of another murder.

By

Antonia Noori Farzan 

July 19, 2019 at 6:32 p.m. GMT+8

Albert Flick was supposed to be too old to pose a threat to anyone.

When he came before a judge in Portland, Maine, in 2010, he was in his late 60s, and had spent roughly a third of his life in prison. After doing time for killing his wife, he had assaulted another woman and gone back to jail, only to get out and attack a third woman. Flick’s violent tendencies didn’t seem likely to go away with age, both the prosecutor and his probation officer warned. But the judge chose to sentence him to just shy of four years in prison, noting that by the time he was released in 2014, he would be 72 or 73.

“At some point Mr. Flick is going to age out of his capacity to engage in this conduct,” Maine Superior Court Justice Robert E. Crowley said, according to the Portland Press Herald, “and incarcerating him beyond the time that he ages out doesn’t seem to me to make good sense.”

Eight years after that hearing, Flick struck again, fatally stabbing a woman outside a laundromat in Lewiston, Maine, as her 11-year-old twin sons watched. Now 77, he was convicted of murder on Wednesday, and, this time, it looks likely that he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison. The charges carry a minimum 25-year sentence, and prosecutors plan to request that he be placed behind bars for life.

Statistically speaking, the judge who predicted that Flick would age out of criminal behavior wasn’t wrong: A study compiled by the U.S. Sentencing Commission in 2017 found that only 13.4 percent of offenders who were 65 or older when they got out of prison were arrested again in the eight-year period following their release, compared to 68 percent of those under the age of 21.

But Flick was the exception. His first murder conviction came in 1979, when he was living in Westbrook, Maine, and working as a doughnut maker. That January, his wife, Sandra Flick, served him with divorce papers and had him escorted from their apartment by police. Three weeks later, when she asked him to come back and pick up his belongings, Flick brought his jackknife with him, the Lewiston Sun Journal reported.

Sandra Flick’s daughter from another marriage was home at the time, and watched through a crack in the door as Albert Flick bent her mother’s arm behind her back and put his hand over her mouth. When the 12-year-old heard a scream, she ran for help. A neighbor arrived to find Sandra Flick covered in blood. She had been stabbed 14 times, and lived just long enough to tell the neighbor that her husband was responsible.

Originally sentenced to three decades in prison, Flick got out after 21 years because of good behavior, according to WCSH. Not long after his release in 2000, he ended up behind bars again. In 2007, he was charged with punching a woman he was dating and stabbing her with a fork, then trying to intimidate her so that she wouldn’t testify against him. Then, in 2010, after getting out of prison yet again, he assaulted a different woman in his Portland apartment.

The woman told authorities that she and Flick had argued, and he had put her in a headlock and hit her repeatedly with the butt-end of a knife, then chased her with a screwdriver when she managed to escape. Police found Flick trying to hang himself from a fire escape when they arrived at the building.

After the attack, prosecutor Katherine Tierney asked the judge to sentence Flick to roughly eight years in prison, arguing that his violent behavior toward women was unlikely to change as he grew older, and the only solution was “significant” prison time.

“Clearly, probation is not working,” she said, according to the Press Herald. “At this point, I just don’t know what else to do. I think there’s a huge safety risk to women and society when it comes to Mr. Flick.”

Flick’s probation officer, Troy Thornton, similarly told the judge that Flick was “an extremely violent individual when it comes to relationships,” the paper reported.

“He doesn’t appear to have slowed down at this point,” Thornton said, “and I don’t see him slowing down in the near future.”

Those warnings proved to be prescient. In 2014, after serving the nearly four-year sentence handed down by Crowley, Flick was arrested for threatening the woman whom he had chased with a screwdriver, telling her, “You’ll get yours” when they ran into each other on the street. The septuagenarian pleaded guilty to violating his probation, and was sent back to prison until 2016.

After getting out, he relocated to the Lewiston area. There, he met Kimberly Dobbie, who was living at a homeless shelter with her two sons.

Witnesses who testified in court this week said that Flick developed an obsession with the 48-year-old, following her from the shelter to the public library, the bus stop and Dunkin’. Though she never reported him to the police, she told her friends that she didn’t appreciate the attention. The mother of two planned to move to an apartment in Farmington, about an hour away, and made it clear to Flick that he wasn’t coming.

Flick went to Walmart and purchased two pink-handled paring knives.

“It became if ‘I can’t have her, I will kill her,” Assistant Attorney General Bud Ellis told jurors, according to WGME. “And that’s exactly what he did.”

  

Albert Flick

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On July 15, 2018, Flick followed Dobbie to the laundromat, where surveillance footage captured him stabbing her at least 11 times. It took jurors only 40 minutes to convict him of murder on Wednesday, even though they weren’t told of his previous history of violence toward women.

Crowley, the judge who predicted that Flick would “age out” of his violent behavior, retired from the bench in 2010, the same year that he handed down the nearly four-year sentence. At the time, he was widely praised by attorneys, other judges, and even the father of one convicted murderer, who wrote a letter to thank him for treating the family with dignity. He told the Press Herald, which noted that he was stepping down while “at the top of his game,” that he wanted to return to private practice.

Now a mediator at a firm in Portland, he could not immediately be reached for comment late Thursday night.

“I firmly believe this could have been prevented,” Elsie Clement, whose mother was stabbed to death by Flick in 1979, told the Press Herald last year. “There is no reason this man should have been on the streets in the first place, no reason.”

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Albert Flick leaves the courtroom in Androscoggin County Superior Court in Auburn on Friday morning, convicted to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of Kimberly Dobbie in Lewiston last year.  Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

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Convicted murderer, 77, given life sentence for stabbing he committed after deemed 'too old to be a threat'

By David Aaro | Fox News

A 77-year-old man previously deemed "too old to be a threat" was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for fatally stabbing a woman in front of her children, four decades after he was convicted of a nearly identical crime.

Albert Flick was convicted last month stabbing 48-year-old Kimberly Dobbie 11 times while her twins watched on a Maine sidewalk in 2018.

Prosecutors said the elderly man was infatuated with Dobbie, who he met at a shelter while she was waiting on an apartment in Farmington. Witnesses said he routinely followed Dobbie and her twin sons to bus stops, the local library, and Dunkin', before eventually stabbing her in front of a laundromat.

The broad daylight attack in front of the laundromat and Flick's purchase of two knives were caught on surveillance video.

"He is a monster," Lori Moreau, a friend of Dobbie told AP. "I hope he rots in hell.”

Judge Mary Gay Kennedy said on Friday that the attack on Dobbie was premeditated and Flick showed no remorse for his actions, saying 'nah' when the judge asked if he had anything to say, according to the Sun Journal.

Flick had a long history of violence against women and was sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing his wife, Sandra Flick, 14 times after she served him with divorce papers in 1979.

A judge who sentenced him for assaulting another woman said in 2010 that Flick would no longer represent a threat because of age by the time of his release in 2014. The judge disregarded the recommendation of the prosecutor and probation officer for a longer sentence.

During Flick's trial last month, prosecutors told the jury that Flick took action because Dobbie was planning to move away.

"The obsession became 'If I can't have her, I will kill her,' and that's exactly what he did," Assistant Attorney General Bud Ellis said.

Pennywise the evil clown in the 1990 TV series and the 2017 Movie.

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Defense attorney Allan Lobozzo said there was no indication that Flick posed a threat to society.

Caitlin Jasper, one of the alternate jurors during the trial told the Sun Journal she felt sorry for the victims 11-year-old children and the three men who witnessed the attack.

"It was soul-crushing for them, and they'll never be able to forget it," said Jasper.

Susan Dobbie, the victim's mother, is in the process of adopting the twins. She and Dobbie's sibling plan to provide a home for the boys in Massachusetts.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Albert Flick is a resident of Maine who was found guilty of two murders and two assaults. He has been in the news lately because of his most recent murder conviction. This conviction was handed to him after a judge stated years prior that at the age of 77 he was “too old to be dangerous.”

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Pennywise vs. the Joker: It’s Bill Skarsgard Compares and Contrasts His Terrifying Performance to Heath Ledger's

"He's not even human, he's just pure evil," Skarsgard says of Pennywise

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://people.com/movies/pennywise-vs-the-joker-its-bill-skarsgard-compares-and-contrasts-his-terrifying-performance-to-heath-ledgers/]

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https://thecrimecolumn.com/albert-flick-the-man-deemed-too-old-to-be-dangerous-kills-again/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_clown