My wife and I were stationed in N Italy when this happened. It was crazy how they did it.
He knew there was a hit on him so he traveled in a caravan of three limos, no one knew which one he was in and it changed at random.
The mob placed bomb on the highway and detonated it when he eventually drove over it. Estimates at the time were two or three days to weeks the bomb may have been in place.
Someone had to manually trigger it, so 24hr surveillance also.
The bomb blew a hole in the road so big at first the Italy military thought it may have been a missile strike!
But it was just a huge bomb, big enough to destroy all three armor plated limos at once.
The immediate fall out from the killing was swift. A dozen judges with mafia cases before them retired, hundreds of cases were dismissed because of this one bombing.
It was a sad day in Italy when this happened.
The judge was the most successful anti-mafia judge in Italy. (The courts for these mafia trials were a three judge tribunal, but the head judge act like a prosecutor.) His murder put a chill on the Italian legal system that is still there today.
That was Falcone’s death. Borsellino was killed by a car bomb while stopping to visit his mother. Both were despicable crimes against very good men.