Emanuele Basile (; July 2, 1949 – May 4, 1980) was an Italian captain of the

Carabinieri The Carabinieri (, also , ; formally ''Arma dei Carabinieri'', "Arm of Carabineers"; previously ''Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali'', "Royal Carabineers Corps") are the national gendarmerie of Italy who primarily carry out domestic and foreign polic ...

and a collaborator of

Paolo Borsellino Paolo Emanuele Borsellino (; scn, Pàulu Borsellino; 19 January 1940 – 19 July 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying t ...

on anti-Mafia investigations. He was killed by

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, shot repeatedly in the back whilst he carried his four-year-old daughter, who was unhurt in the shooting. He was working with Borsellino on traffic of

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and killings related to Mafia in

Corleone Corleone (; scn, Cunigghiuni or ) is an Italian town and ''comune'' of roughly 11,158 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, in Sicily. Several Mafia bosses have come from Corleone, including Tommy Gagliano, Gaetano Reina, Jack Dragn ...

at the time of his death. The investigation on his murder was headed by Borsellino. The hit team was made up by

Vincenzo Puccio Vincenzo Puccio (November 27, 1945 – May 11, 1989) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was from Palermo and joined the Ciaculli Mafia family sometime in the late 1970s, although like many other members of that particular family he operated ...

, Armando Bonanno and Giuseppe Madonia of the Resuttana Mafia family, with logistical support from

Giovanni Brusca Giovanni Brusca (; 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 ...

.http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1307&pagenum=3&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 On 14 November 1992,

Salvatore Riina Salvatore Riina (; 16 November 1930 – 17 November 2017), called (, Totò being the diminutive of Salvatore), was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia, known for a ruthless murder campaign that reached a peak in the early 1990s ...

and

Francesco Madonia Francesco Madonia (March 31, 1924 – March 13, 2007) was the Mafia boss of the San Lorenzo-Pallavicino area in Palermo. In 1978 he became a member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission. ''Ciccio'' Madonia became the unquestioned patriarch of the Resu ...

were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder.

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* http://digilander.libero.it/inmemoria/borsellino_biografia.htm * http://digilander.libero.it/inmemoria/delitti_della_mafia.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20051226100445/http://www.testimonideltempo.it/contenuti/paoloborsellino.asp * https://web.archive.org/web/20051122195846/http://www.frosinone.org/oltreloccidente/testi_oo/f302_stille.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Basile, Emanuele 1949 births 1980 deaths People murdered by the Sicilian Mafia People from Taranto Carabinieri Deaths by firearm in Italy Male murder victims Italian police officers People murdered in Italy